Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295568 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 11/17
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone, most of them involving fathers and heads of household. We exploit the geographic and temporal variation in intensified enforcement to gauge its impact on children's propensity to live without their parents in households headed by relatives or friends, or in households singly headed by their mothers with absentee spouses. Given the emotional, cognitive and long run socioeconomic costs of being raised without parents or in a single-headed household, gaining a better understanding of the collateral damage of heightened enforcement on the families to which these children belong is well warranted.
Subjects: 
Immigration Enforcement
Unauthorized Immigration
Family Structure
United States
JEL: 
J13
J15
K37
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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