Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities

This paper studies how changes in deportation fear induced by the roll-out of Secure Communities (SC), a far-reaching immigration enforcement program, affected the demand for safety net programs in the United States. We estimate the spillover effect of SC on the take-up of federal means-tested

本研究探讨了由覆盖面极广的移民执法计划Secure Communities（SC）的推广所引发的递解出境恐惧的变化，如何影响了美国民众对社会保障项目的需求。本文估算了SC对联邦级经财力认定福利项目申领的溢出效应。