The Labor Market Impacts of Immigration (Card’s Mariel Boatlift paper) on “Stuff I Keep Rereading”, a list by Malik Torres on TheLysts.
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Field
Labor economics
Core idea
Looks at Miami after the Mariel Boatlift to test how a sudden migrant inflow affects wages and employment of natives.
Year
1990
How dense
Medium – classic difference-in-differences, not too scary.
My take
The reason every immigration debate eventually turns into “but what about Card (1990).” Great template for thinking about natural experiments in real life.