How the United States approaches immigration policy will help determine its economic strength and competitiveness for decades to come — a reality current policy has yet to fully reflect. The Hoover Immigration Initiative fosters cutting-edge research and facilitates informed academic and policy debate on the economic effects of immigration. It also works to carry these insights beyond academia, informing the public, shaping national conversation, and grounding policy debates in evidence.

Principal Investigator
Paola Sapienza

Paola Sapienza

J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow

Paola Sapienza is the J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where she co-directs the JP Conte Initiative on Immigration and she is a founding member of the Hoover Program on the Foundations for Economic Prosperity. She is Finance Professor Emerita at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, where she was a faculty member for over 25 years. Her research interests span from corporate governance to financial development, from political economy to the economic effects of culture and the economics of immigration. She maintains research affiliations with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Center for Economic Policy Research, and European Corporate Governance Institute.

Stephen Haber

Stephen Haber

Park L. Loughlin Senior Fellow

Stephen Haber is the Park L. Loughlin Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of the Hoover Program on the Foundations for Economic Prosperity. He is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. In addition, he is a professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics (by courtesy).

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