Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Michael A. Clemens; Ethan G. Lewis; Hannah M. Postel (2018) · American Economic Review

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-103", tranche="tranche150")

Template assessment

The source treatment_frac equals the post-1965 indicator times the state’s 1955 Mexican seasonal-worker share. The original wage coefficient is a continuous-exposure effect; it is not recoded as any Bracero exposure.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.