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Migration Opportunities and Human Capital Investments

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  • Gehrke, Esther
  • Duquennois, Claire

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We examine how shocks to migration affect schooling in origin communities. We focus on the migration between Mexico and the United States, and explore how the expansion of the Secure Communities program in the US -- a federal data sharing program that substantially increased the risk of detainment and deportation for illegal migrants -- affected attendance, enrollment, and grades in Mexico. Our results suggest that the Secure Communities program increased attendance and enrollment in municipalities that had stronger migration ties with counties in the US that adopted the program early-on, which is consistent with the interpretation that the Secure Communities program implicitly raised returns to education. We find no effect on grades (within the ?first year of Secure Communities exposure).

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  • Gehrke, Esther & Duquennois, Claire, 2022. "Migration Opportunities and Human Capital Investments," OSF Preprints 4a3g7, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:4a3g7
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/4a3g7
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