Immigrants and the US Economy

Aimee Chin and Kalena Cortes, Organizers

March 3-4, 2022

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Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 3
10:00 am
Welcome
10:05 am
Keynote 1:
Pia Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
10:45 am
Navid Sabet, University of Frankfurt
Christoph Winter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Legal Status, Local Spending and Political Empowerment: The Distributional Consequences of the 1986 IRCA
Discussant: Tara Watson, Brookings Institution
11:30 am
Derek A. Christopher, Stanford University

Homeownership in the Undocumented Population and the Consequences of Credit Constraints
Discussant: Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University
12:15 pm
Break
1:00 pm
Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Labor Mobility, Firm Monopsony, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Immigration Wait-Lines
Discussant: Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
1:45 pm
Milena Djourelova, Cornell University

Media Persuasion through Slanted Language: Evidence from the Coverage of Immigration
Discussant: Carolina Arteaga, University of Toronto
2:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, March 4
10:00 am
Welcome
10:05 am
Keynote 2:
Jeffrey Passel, Pew Research Center
10:45 am
Joan Llull, IAE-CSIC and BSE

Selective Immigration Policies and the U.S. Labor Market
Discussant: Joan Monras, UPF, CREI, and BSE
11:30 am
William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER

Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration
Discussant: Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
12:15 pm
Break
1:00 pm
Hedvig Horvath, University College London
Jamie L. McCasland, University of California at Berkeley

The Latinx Great Migration and its Effects on School Segregation (slides)
Discussant: Paola Giuliano, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
1:45 pm
Toman Barsbai, University of Bristol
Andreas Steinmayr, University of Innsbruck
Christoph Winter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the U.S.
Discussant: Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:30 pm
Closing
2:35 pm
Adjourn