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 Putting TRAC to Work |
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Rockwoll Foundation Berlin, Discussion Paper Series |
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June 2026 |
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Economic and Magnet Effects of Work Authorization for Asylum Seekers: Descriptive Evidence from the United States
By Michael A. Clemens, Amy M. Nice, and Natalia Rigol
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Our treatment variable is constructed from immigration court records obtained from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonpartisan data research center at Syracuse University that acquires case-level administrative data from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) through Freedom of Information Act requests. The TRAC database contains the universe of immigration court proceedings, including each respondent’s hearing schedule, immigration judge decision, nationality, date of birth, date of US entry, and residential ZIP code at the time of case filing. We thank Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) for access to data obtained by FOIA request from the US Dept. of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review. This research was carried out while Clemens and Rigol were TRAC Fellows.
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