reading quiz 6

Bo and Jacks (2012), find that import variety grew by [____]% between 1988 and 2007, and they relate this growth to immigration.
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Bo and Jacks (2012), find that import variety grew by [____]% between 1988 and 2007, and they relate this growth to immigration.
76%
Bo and Jacks (2012), find that import variety grew between 1988 and 2007, and they relate this growth to immigration. When evaluating the economic welfare, they approximate that the overall gain is ____%, and that enhanced immigration flows may be responsible for ____% of this variety growth and its attendant welfare gains.
over all gain is 28%; immigration flows may be responsible for 25% of this variety growth and welfare gains
Bo and Jacks (2012) approximate that a representative Canadian consumer would be wiling to give up [____]% of their real income in order to gain access to new imported varieties.
22%
In Dinkelman and Mariotti (2016), circular migration between Malawi and South Africa is estimated to increase human capital in the long run by
4.8-6.9%
malawi/south africa difference-in-difference estimation sources of variation/shocks
-elimination of labor quotas in 1967, leading to three-fold increase in migration from malawi to south african mines

-a ban on new recruiting and recall of mine workers, following a plane crash in 1974

-using cohorts who were too old for primary school, between districts with and without access to mine recruiting stations

-using cohorts who were age-eligible for primary school, between districts with and without access to mine recruiting stations
In Yang (2011) Migrant Remittances, the Mexican migrants send ____ % of their income as remittances, and migrants from El Salvador around ____%.
mexico: 31.1%
el salvador: 37.7%
yang (2011): remittances are ____ in size and sent ____ with ____fees
small in size, sent frequently, non-trivial fees
true or false: remittances increase consumption but not investment in countries of origin (yang 2011)
false- can increase consumption and investment
undocumented migrants in italy are more likely to be... (pinotti 2020)
male, single, and less educated compared to documented migrants
(pope 2016) effects of DACA
-increased likelihood of working/being employed

-increased GED completion

-reduced labor market frictions

-increased income of low earners
main data issues of identifying causal effect of legal status on criminal behavior in "The effect of immigrant legalization on crime" (pinotti 2020)-lack of data on immigrants without legal status -selection bias: documented and undocumented immigrants might have differences in criminal behavior"The effect of immigrant legalization on crime" (pinotti 2020) fraction of re-arrested romanians and bulgarians who were previously imprisoned drops to ___% after they gain legal status in the EU2.3%