1/With people freaking out about the Honduran migrant caravan now forcing its way through Mexico, I figured it might be time for a thread about Central American immigration.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2018-10-21/migrant-caravan-continues-toward-u-s-even-as-trump-threatens-military-intervention …
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2/I wrote a Bloomberg post about Central American immigration a few months ago.https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-26/what-immigration-crisis-the-u-s-isn-t-being-swamped …
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3/First, some useful background. MEXICAN immigration to the United States collapsed a decade ago. Since then, there has been a decrease in the Mexican-born population living in America of about 500,000.pic.twitter.com/3a7BAfzxV1
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4/Why did Mexican immigration to the U.S. collapse? The Great Recession was a catalyst, but the real reasons are much longer-term things: 1. Mexico got a lot richer 2. Mexicans stopped having lots of kids.pic.twitter.com/E7TPEGQzkS
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I have read the Hanson et al. paper. The rise in avg RGDP per capita doesn't necessarily translate into most Mexicans getting richer. Maybe the birth rate is most important. I'll search for some gains-distributional data from Mexico after we go check out a high school for my son
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