Distributing the Green (Cards): Permanent Residency and Personal Income Taxes after the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

We thank conference and seminar participants at the 2016 SOLE Annual Meeting, IIES, Montana State University, UCLA, UIUC, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Nottingham, Uppsala University, and Williams College, as well as two anonymous reviewers and the editor, for their comments on our earlier working paper that circulated under the title, “How Much Does Amnesty Strengthen the Safety Net? Evidence from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.” We also thank William Paja and Chris Brown for outstanding research assistance and gratefully acknowledge funding from Dartmouth College. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• July 24, 2018