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Understanding the Impact of Immigration on Labor Markets: A Tale of Two Miamis

May 22nd, 2017 - Ivonne Acevedo

In 2015, the United Nations estimated an international migrant population of 243 million people around the world. Immigration has been a recurrent phenomenon in many economies and prompts a continuous debate regarding its impact on socioeconomic indicators — p... More »

Where Children Live Matters: Housing Policy Effects on Education Outcomes

February 27th, 2017 - Alex Sarabia

Social scientists have long suspected that the demographic characteristics and attributes of neighborhoods affect the educational outcomes of the children who live in them. However, this hypothesis is challenging to test because people tend to self-select the ... More »