Immigrants and the U.S. Economy
Organized by Aimee Chin and Kalena Cortes
March 6, 2026
Zoom
Format: Authors will be given the full time for their sessions, participants may interrupt during presentation with questions/comments.

Friday, March 6

11:00am

Welcoming Remarks
Aimee Chin, University of Houston and NBER
Kalena Cortes, Texas A&M University and NBER

11:05am

Keynote Address
David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

12:00pm

Immigrant Earnings Assimilation, 1981-2021

Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Daniel L. Crown, Congressional Budget Office

12:40pm

Immigration and Credit in America

J. Anthony Cookson, University of Colorado Boulder
Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Rice University
William Mullins, University of California, San Diego

1:20pm

Break

2:00pm

Migrant Workers and Economic Resilience: Evidence from the 2020 H-2B Visa Lottery

Parag Mahajan, University of Delaware

2:40pm

Immigration Restrictions and Natives' Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the 1920s US Quota Acts

James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
Yi-Ju Hung, National Chung Cheng University
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Monia Tomasella, Stanford University

3:20pm

Temporary Legal Protection: Labor Market and Migration Responses

Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER
Juan David Torres, Stanford University
Benjamin Kenneth McAvoy-Bickford, Stanford University

4:00pm

Adjourn