Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act Reduce the State's Unauthorized Immigrant Population?

Sarah Bohn, Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael
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Sarah Bohn: Public Policy Institute of California
Steven Raphael: Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley and IZA

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, vol. 96, issue 2, 258-269

Abstract: We test for an effect of Arizona's 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state's population characterized as noncitizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control method to select a group of states against which Arizona's population trends can be compared. We document a notable and statistically significant reduction in the proportion of the Hispanic noncitizen population in Arizona. The decline observed matches the timing of LAWA's implementation, deviates from the time series for the synthetic control group, and stands out relative to the distribution of placebo estimates for other states in the nation. © 2014 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Keywords: immigration; illegal immigrants; Legal Arizona Workers Act; Hispanics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J15 J18 J48 J61 J8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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