The Wall Street Journal and The Economist covered recent research by Giovanni Peri and Vasco Yasenov as part of a Mariel boatlift debate over the impact of immigration on local wages.
Associate Professor Erin Hamilton was featured on the Institute for Social Sciences for her article (co-authored with Jo Hale) regarding border militarization. This research article was published last year by Demography.
The project seeks to integrate knowledge from immigration theory, labor market theory, as well as rural studies to consider the following research questions across these three areas.
Taylor and his teamstudied households and businesses in and around refugee settlements to analyze the long-term effects of refugees in their new communities.