Illegal Immigration, State Law, and Deterrence

Mark Hoekstra; Sandra Orozco-Aleman (2017) · American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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()
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from tranche50_report import report
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Mark Hoekstra; Sandra Orozco-Aleman (2017). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Table 3.

Template assessment

The source estimates an interrupted time-series discontinuity and slope change around Arizona’s law, not a treated/control adoption comparison.

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

The source regression was re-estimated on 16,122 observations before this assessment.