Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=YsmgPp…

Note: It was a time of great economic anxiety for low-income whites. Many switched parties to vote for Reagan.

This is despicable, and those responsible must be held accountable. I’m ashamed to have leaders who hold human beings with such contempt.

Apropos of nothing, seems like a relevant fact right now. Immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than native born Americans. hamiltonproject.org/assets/files/I…

The world has more guest workers than the entire labor force of Poland. The economic effects on households are hard to measure. My new paper: “Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment” cgdev.org/publication/me…

A new article in @BarronsOnline highlights research done by James Feyrer correctly predicting that the aging of the baby boomers would lead to a slowdown in productivity growth and suggests that the aging of the millenials might reverse this trend. barrons.com/articles/how-m…

Congratulations to Jonathan Zinman, appointed the R. Stephen Cheheyl Professor of Economics. “This appointment as a named chair acknowledges Jon’s outstanding research contributions in behavioral economics,” says Nina Pavčnik, chair of DartmouthEcon. economics.dartmouth.edu/professor-jona…

Economists studying migration: There's a small, top-end conference on migration economics at Stanford University in September, run by three of the very best: Melanie Morten, Ethan G. Lewis, & Ran Abramitzky. Open call for papers, due May 15th, here (Session 13)--> site.stanford.edu

Coming up on Morning Joe with more on our exclusive reporting. Emails show Trump administration was scrambling and failing spectacularly to link 2000+ separated parents and kids *the same day* they claimed they had a "central database" to reunite them. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…

Tomorrow the U.S. Administration announces its latest scheme to bar immigrants —> thehill.com/homenews/admin… Remember: its last plan for "merit based" immigration concealed the fact that it would have *reduced* the number of university grads by 18% —> cgdev.org/blog/how-trump…

A good day to reread this paper from Elira Kuka Esra Kose @shenhav_n nber.org/papers/w24933

School desegregation is in the news. I have worked on these questions with Elizabeth U. Cascio Nora Gordon Ethan G. Lewis! A thread on some of the things we learned about the Federal role in deseg in the 50s, 60s, 70s. (Many have written on this; I summarize some of my own work here.)

Occasionally citizens or green card holders are mistakenly removed. Asylum seekers are also not supposed to be removed through this process, but that sometimes happens too.

We are about to amp up expedited removals. As Tara describes in her thread, this will exacerbate such unjust abuse. By the way, interior enforcement has not been found to improve labor market outcomes or to reduce crime.

Let's let in anybody from Hong Kong who wants to come. They are some of the most productive people in the world being oppressed by a brutal regime. Let them in.

It's true! More than 1 in 4 doctors in the United States are immigrants More than half of students enrolling in STEM grad programs are immigrants Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than the native-born Immigrants serve in the military Immigrant entrepreneurs create jobs

Nice that my work with @shenhav_n and Kevin Shih is featured on the front page of the AEA webpage today! Thanks for the insightful article AEA Journals

Share of foreign-born workers in other industries critical to the coronavirus response migrationpolicy.org/research/immig…

Memo to President Trump buff.ly/2VpttHC Banning immigration will not save jobs - but it will make Americans poorer buff.ly/2Mynzjh

“Reopening the economy” without reopening schools is a fool’s errand: “The economy will not really ‘open up,’ and life will not return to normal, as long as parents don’t have any place to send our children during the day.” nytimes.com/2020/04/22/opi…