Ethnic Minorities and Migrants
Paper Session
Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)
- Chair: Shuai Chen, University of Leicester
Building Social and Human Capital Among Refugee Children
Abstract
TBDHow Asylum Seekers in the United States Respond to Their Judges: Evidence and Implications
Abstract
Judges in United States immigration courts exhibit extreme variability in their decisions, with on average a 20 percentage point gap in grant rates between the least versus most lenient judge in a court from 2009-2015. We show that this variability has an important unintended consequence: Asylum seekers quasi-randomly assigned to less lenient immigration judges are more likely to be absent for their immigration hearings. A simulation demonstrates that this type of endogenous response to decision-maker leniency causes bias in second-stage estimates when using the popular randomly assigned decision-maker research design.Do Beliefs in Model Minority Stereotype Selectively Shape Attention to Inequality for Asian Americans?
Abstract
TBDJEL Classifications
- J1 - Demographic Economics
- N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation