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Working Paper No. 965
July 28, 2020
First Palestinian Intifada and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
AbstractThis paper attempts to estimate the intergenerational transmission of human capital in Palestine. The main question is whether formal parental education improves their offspring’s cognitive skills and school achievements. I use the instrumental variable (IV) method in the estimations to overcome the potential endogeneity of parental education. The main source of variation in parental educational […]
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Policy Notes No. 3
April 20, 2020
Immigration Policy Undermines the US Pandemic Response
AbstractResearch Scholar Martha Tepepa explains how the US response to the COVID-19 crisis will be hindered by its approach to immigration policy. The administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration campaign creates a public health risk in the context of this pandemic, and the recent implementation of the “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds” final rule penalizing noncitizen recipients […]
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Working Paper No. 950
April 08, 2020
Public Charge in the Time of Coronavirus
AbstractThe United States government recently passed legislation and stabilization packages to respond to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak by providing paid sick leave, tax credits, and free virus testing; expanding food assistance and unemployment benefits; and increasing Medicaid funding. However, the response to the global pandemic might be hindered by the lassitude of […]
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One-Pager No. 59
April 23, 2019
The Limitations of the “Populism” Explanation
AbstractSome common accounts of “populism” and its causes risk leading us away from understanding what is happening today in parts of the democratic West, according to Senior Scholar Joel Perlmann. He cautions that economic insecurity may well be a common source of populism, but such insecurity is too prevalent and too diverse to be tied […]
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One-Pager No. 58
November 09, 2018
A Citizenship Question on the US Census
AbstractThe Trump administration is facing a legal challenge to its efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census—a question that was first included in 1890, but has not been asked of the entire population since 1950. If the citizenship question was asked in the past, why not reinstate it? Senior Scholar Joel […]
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Book Series
April 01, 2018
America Classifies the Immigrants
AbstractIn America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census (Harvard University Press, 2018), Senior Scholar Joel Perlmann traces the evolution of thinking about “race” and “ethnic groups” in America. Beginning with the 1897 “List of Races and Peoples” through the proposed 2020 changes for the US Census, Perlmann examines the shifting ideas […]
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Policy Notes No. 3
August 04, 2016
The Impact of Immigration on the Native-born Unemployed
AbstractIn this policy note, Research Scholar Fernando Rios-Avila and Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Universidad EAFIT, observe that immigration in the United States has a small but statistically significant impact on the labor market behavior of native-born unemployed workers. Their chances of transitioning from unemployment to employment are not affected by the share of immigrants in their job […]
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Working Paper No. 870
August 01, 2016
Unemployed, Now What?
AbstractAlthough one would expect the unemployed to be the population most likely affected by immigration, most of the studies have concentrated on investigating the effects immigration has on the employed population. Little is known of the effects of immigration on labor market transitions out of unemployment. Using the basic monthly Current Population Survey from 2001–13 […]
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Working Paper No. 858
January 12, 2016
Gender Dimensions of Inequality in the Countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Western CIS
AbstractThe collapse of the Soviet Union initiated an unprecedented social and economic transformation of the successor countries and altered the gender balance in a region that counted gender equality as one of the key legacies of its socialist past. The transition experience of the region has amply demonstrated that the changes in the gender balance […]
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Policy Notes No. 8
December 17, 2015
The US Census Asks About Race and Ethnicity: 1980–2020
AbstractThis policy note examines the formulation and reformulation of questions deployed by the US Census Bureau to gather information on racial and ethnic origin in recent decades. The likely outcome for the 2020 Census is that two older questions on race and Hispanic origin will be combined into a single question on ethno-racial origin. The […]
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Working Paper No. 857
December 17, 2015
Ethno-Racial Origin in US Federal Statistics: 1980–2020
AbstractThis paper describes the transformations in federal classification of ethno-racial information since the civil rights era of the 1960s. These changes were introduced in the censuses of 1980 and 2000, and we anticipate another major change in the 2020 Census. The most important changes in 1980 introduced the Hispanic Origin and Ancestry questions and the […]
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Working Paper No. 815
September 17, 2014
Public Preferences for Redistributive Policies in Israel
AbstractThis paper contributes to the literature on inequality and welfare policy by studying public support for redistributive policies in Israel, a society with an extreme level of socioeconomic inequality. Drawing on the relevant literature and taking into consideration the distinct demographic makeup of contemporary Israeli society, the study aims to describe public support for opportunity-enhancing […]
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Working Paper No. 756
February 14, 2013
Long-Term Benefits from Temporary Migration
AbstractUtilizing a nationally representative sample of households from Sri Lanka, this study examines gender differences in the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare households with return migrants, households with current migrants, and equivalent nonmigrant households in terms of a variety of outcomes. Our results show […]
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Working Paper No. 689
October 05, 2011
Effects of Legal and Unauthorized Immigration on the US Social Security System
AbstractImmigration is having an increasingly important effect on the social insurance system in the United States. On the one hand, eligible legal immigrants have the right to eventually receive pension benefits but also rely on other aspects of the social insurance system such as health care, disability, unemployment insurance, and welfare programs, while most of […]
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Working Paper No. 648
January 06, 2011
Views of European Races among the Research Staff of the US Immigration Commission and the Census Bureau, ca. 1910
AbstractThis paper discusses support for, and opposition to, racial classification of European immigrants among high-level researchers at both the United States Immigration Commission of 1907–11 (the Dillingham Commission) and the Census Bureau during those same years. A critical distinction must be made between the Commission members—political appointees who mostly supported some form of restriction at […]
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Working Paper No. 646
December 22, 2010
A Demographic Base for Ethnic Survival?
AbstractNew data from the IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) project permit an exploration of the demographic basis for ethnic survival across successive generations. I first explore the degree of ethnic blending among the grandchildren of early- to mid-19th-century German immigrants; second, these descendants’ own marital choices; and third, the likely composition of the fourth […]
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Working Paper No. 633
November 02, 2010
Immigrant Parents’ Attributes versus Discrimination
AbstractThere is much interest in explaining the persistent ethnic gaps in education among Israeli Jews; specifically, the much lower attainments of those from Asian and African countries compared to the rest—Mizrahim vs. Ashkenazim, respectively. Some explanations (especially early ones) have stressed premigration immigrant characteristics, particularly the relatively lower level of educational attainment among Mizrahim. More […]
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Working Paper No. 599
May 18, 2010
Racial Preferences in a Small Urban Housing Market
AbstractThis paper use spatial econometric models to test for racial preferences in a small urban housing market. Identifying racial preferences is difficult when unobserved neighborhood amenities vary systematically with racial composition. We adopt three strategies to redress this problem: (1) we focus on housing price differences across microneighborhoods in the small and relatively homogenous city […]
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Working Paper No. 588
March 08, 2010
Decomposition of the Black-White Wage Differential in the Physician Market
AbstractThis paper proposes a difference-in-differences strategy to decompose the contributions of various types of discrimination to the black-white wage differential. The proposed estimation strategy is implemented using data from the Young Physicians Survey. The results suggest that potential discrimination plays a small role in the racial wage gap among physicians. At most, discrimination lowers the […]
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Working Paper No. 565
May 19, 2009
Housing Inequality in the United States
AbstractIn recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership itself remained unevenly distributed, particularly along racial and ethnic lines. By using data from the 2000 Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the trajectory into homeownership of black, Asian, […]
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Working Paper No. 526
December 21, 2007
American Jewish Opinion about the Future of the West Bank
AbstractAmerican Jewish opinion about the Arab-Israel conflict matters for both American and Israeli politics as well as for American Jewish life. This paper undertakes an analysis of that opinion based on American Jewish Committee (AJC) annual polls. Recently, the AJC made the individual-level datasets for the 2000–05 period available to researchers. The paper focuses on […]
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Working Paper No. 508
July 18, 2007
The American Jewish Committee’s Annual Opinion Surveys
AbstractThe American Jewish Committee (AJC) surveys of Jewish opinion are unique both in being conducted annually and in the subject matter covered. This paper assesses the quality of these samples. I first summarize my earlier findings on the implications of limiting a sample to respondents who answered “Jewish” when asked a screening question about their […]
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Working Paper No. 507
July 17, 2007
Who’s a Jew in an Era of High Intermarriage?
AbstractThe old ways in which surveys of Jews handled marginal cases no longer make sense, and the number of cases involved is no longer small. I examine in detail the public-use samples of the two recent national surveys of Americans of recent Jewish origin—the National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) and the American Jewish Identity Survey […]
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Working Paper No. 501
May 21, 2007
Two National Surveys of American Jews, 2000–01
AbstractWhile there have been very few national surveys of American Jews, two that we do have are from the same period, 2000–01. They were conducted by different researchers using different sampling methods. Known as the NJPS and the AJIS, these surveys are now available as public-use datasets, but they have not yet been systematically compared. […]
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