The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States: Evidence from the ACS
Evans and his coauthor Daniel Fitzgerald ’17 use data from the 2010–14 American Community Survey (ACS) and a novel procedure to identify refugees from among the more general group of immigrants who entered the US from 1990 to 2014. They then construct synthetic cohorts of refugees and examine their economic and social outcomes as they age in the US. In the final section of the paper, they use detailed data about a refugee’s household to estimate the net fiscal cost of these same adult refugees over a 20-year period. Results from this study have been widely reported in the press and have received attention from policy makers.
William N. Evans
William N. Evans is Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. An applied microeconomist, Evans has worked on topics in labor economics, the economics of education, public finance, and health economics...
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