Economics News

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...

“The economy is not a zero-sum game,” said Chloe East, an economist at the University of Colorado Denver who focuses on immigration policy. “When one person has a job, that does not mean one less job for somebody else.”

Chloe East, Associate Professor of Economics, was quoted in an NPR News story on perceptions of immigration in Denver. NPR News , Mar. 11

Chloe East, Associate Professor in Economics, was quoted in a CPR News article on the anti-immigrant backlash. She noted that immigrants travel to the U.S. not only for economic opportunity but also to escape violence. She also challenged assumptions that immigrants hurt local workers, stating, "Not only does [immigration] help...