RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Dreamers and Beyond
JF Journal of Human Resources
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 1507
OP 1559
DO 10.3368/jhr.0621-11696R2
VO 60
IS 5
A1 Ballis, Briana
YR 2025
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/60/5/1507.abstract
AB This work examines the direct effects and spillover effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on human capital investments during high school. DACA significantly increased the returns to schooling for undocumented youth, while leaving the returns for their U.S.-born peers unchanged. I estimate the impacts of DACA using detailed administrative data from Los Angeles Unified School District. I find that DACA induced undocumented youth to invest more in their education, which also had positive spillover effects on ineligible students (those born in the United States) who attended high school with high concentrations of DACA-eligible youth.