Economics Spotlight

Expelling noncitizens on a mass scale is likely to raise prices on goods and services and lower employment rates for U.S. workers, many economists say.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to conduct “the largest deportation effort in American history,” no matter the price tag—but the economic costs of such a campaign may be bigger than he has bargained for.

Public health insurance programs are increasingly being implemented worldwide, placing significant demands on public finances. However, there is limited evidence on their long-term effects. This project aims to fill this gap by studying Mexico’s Seguro Popular, a program that provided public health insurance to nearly half of the country’s population...

US universities have been emailing international students and staff advising them to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, amid concerns over his plans for mass deportations. "All international students are worried right now," University of Colorado Denver professor Chloe East told the BBC. Trump, a...

Economists at the University of Colorado Denver, studied the deportations carried out by the Bush and Obama administrations between 2008 and 2014. They found that, for every one million unauthorized workers expelled from the U.S., 88,000 American workers lost their jobs. That is because immigrant workers in certain industries such...

Clemens cited a separate study, “The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement” by the economists Chloe N. East, Annie Hines, Philip Luck, Hani Mansour and Andrea Velásquez, which digs into a 2008 to ’14 initiative called Secure Communities. The program was conducted during the administrations of George W. Bush and...

Andrea Velasquez, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, was awarded a Russell Sage Foundation Award . Andrea Velasquez and Duncan Thomas (Duke University) will examine the selectivity of Mexican immigrants and their socioeconomic integration, comparing those staying in the U.S. and those returning to Mexico. The research is co-funded...

Hani Mansour and Andrea Velásquez write about the adverse employment effects of Chinese import competition in Peru in VoxDev , a platform for economists, policymakers, practitioners, donors, the private sector, and others interested in development to discuss key policy issues and a collaboration among the Centre for Economic Policy Research,...

Chloe East, Associate Professor of Economics; Hani Mansour, Professor of Economics; and Andrea Velásquez, Associate Professor of Economics have recently published an article, "The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement," in the highly ranked Journal of Labor Economics . They study the labor market effects of Secure Communities, a police-based...