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Do Immigration Raids Deter Head Start Enrollment?

Author(s) -

Robert Santillano,

Stephanie Potochnick,

Jade Marcus Jenkins

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

aea papers and proceedings

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2574-0776

pISSN - 2574-0768

DOI - 10.1257/pandp.20201113

Subject(s) - immigration , deterrence (psychology) , head start , demographic economics , enforcement , deterrence theory , head (geology) , political science , panel data , demography , criminology , economics , psychology , sociology , econometrics , law , developmental psychology , geomorphology , geology

We investigate the local deterrence effect of immigration raids on Hispanic Head Start enrollment. Using a nationwide panel of raids from 2006 to 2008, a time of intensified immigration enforcement across communities in the US, we find robust evidence that raids decreased Hispanic Head Start enrollment by around 10 percent. We disentangle this impact and find evidence that this decrease is driven by a deterrence effect rather than a mobility effect, which suggests that families are staying in their communities but not enrolling their children in Head Start.

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