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Federal immigration policy dictates the flow of both legal and illegal immigrants to the United States. Promoting the former while limiting the latter requires a renewed perspective of the value that immigrants have always brung to the United States.

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The Hoover Institution Establishes New Initiative And Names Senior Fellow To Study Immigration
October 29, 2024 featuring Paola Sapienza

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Understanding the Short-Run Impact of Migration on Unemployment
November 19, 2024 By Pascal Michaillat

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Pascal Michaillat of UC Santa Cruz presents research on the short-term economic effects of immigration.
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Hoover Hosts Inaugural Conference On Economics Of Immigration

The Hoover Institution hosted its first-ever conference on the economics of immigration from October 31‒November 1, 2024, with scholars from across the globe examining the many ways immigration…

November 15, 2024

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Working Papers
The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the Economic Development of the Western U.S.
September 30, 2024 By Joe Long, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian, Marco Tabellin
Articles
The Labor Market Impact of Amnesty Programs
November 19, 2024 By George J. Borjas

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Lessons For American Immigration Policy From The Past
October 24, 2024 By Cody Nager

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JP Conte

J-P Conte Initiative on Immigration

Immigration policy is one of the most consequential issues that both the United States and the world need to address in coming years. The J-P Conte Initiative on Immigration fosters cutting-edge research and facilitates informed academic and policy debates on the economic effects of immigration.

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David L. Leal

Senior Fellow (adjunct)
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David L. Leal

Senior Fellow (adjunct)

David L. Leal is a senior fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution and a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin.  His primary academic interest is Latino politics, and his work explores the political and policy implications of demographic change in the United States. He teaches classes on Latino politics, immigration policy, politics and religion, and the US Congress. He has written one book, edited eight volumes, and published over fifty articles in political science and other social science journals. He has been an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the office of a US senator, a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in Japan, and an Associate Member at Nuffield College at Oxford University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Social Science Quarterly, Education Next, Nations & Nationalism, and Journal of School Choice, and he was elected to a three-year term (2019-2022) on the Council of the American Political Science Association.

Paola Sapienza

Paola Sapienza

J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow
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Paola Sapienza

Paola Sapienza

J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow

Paola Sapienza is the J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. Sapienza’s main research focuses on the impact of cultural norms on economic decisions and outcomes. She applies these concepts to financial development, political economy, and education. Her work in financial economics sheds light on the interactions among trust, social capital, and civic capital and how cultural attitudes impact financial and economic development. Her work in education investigates how vertical and horizontal cultural transmission of preferences may affect educational outcomes. Sapienza’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The Economist.

Stephen Haber

Stephen Haber

Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow
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Stephen Haber

Stephen Haber

Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow

Stephen Haber is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, 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). Haber has spent his career investigating why the world distribution of income so uneven. His papers have been published in economics, history, political science, and law journals. He is the author of five books and the editor of six more. Haber’s most recent books include Fragile by Design with Charles Calomiris (Princeton University Press), which examines how governments and industry incumbents often craft banking regulatory policies in ways that stifle competition and increase systemic risk. The Battle Over Patents (Oxford University Press), a volume edited with Naomi Lamoreaux, documents the development of US-style patent systems and the political fights that have shaped them. His latest project focuses on a long-standing puzzle in the social sciences: why are prosperous democracies not randomly distributed across the planet, but rather, are geographically clustered? Haber and his coauthors answer this question by using geospatial tools to simulate the ecological conditions that shaped pre-industrial food production and trade. They then employ machine learning methods to elucidate the relationship between ecological conditions and the levels of economic development that emerged across the globe over the past three centuries. Haber holds a Ph.D. in history from UCLA and has been on the Stanford faculty since 1987. From 1995 to 1998, he served as associate dean for the social sciences and director of Graduate Studies of Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences. He is among Stanford’s most distinguished teachers, having been awarded every teaching prize Stanford has to offer.

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