Economics Spotlight

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...

Chloe N. East, Assistant Professor in Economics, has a working paper out that is very relevant to debates related to work requirements for SNAP, The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers .

Assistant Professors Chloe East and Barton Willage, from the Department of Economics, have been appointed Faculty Research Fellows at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). East was selected for the Program on Children group, and Willage for the Health Economics group. The NBER is the leading nonprofit economic research...

Assistant Professor of Economics Andrea Velasquez is a 2023-2024 awardee of The University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society . Each year, this award is given to a diverse range of interdisciplinary faculty research projects that address critical issues. The Neubauer Collegium is committed to the idea that...

Andrea Velásquez, Assistant Professor of Economics, recently published an op-ed titled, “When Violence Goes Up the Income Gap Widens. Something Needs to Be Done,” in Initiative for Policy Dialogue . The piece discusses how global murder rates have declined steadily over the last two decades but still account for more...