Effects of Police Stop-and-Frisk on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Youth

• In Event: 1464 - Immigrant Communities/Families

Abstract

While the "chilling effects'' of immigration enforcement on immigrants are well documented, the literature's focus on the consequences of immigration enforcement may masks the ways more common police practices exclude and isolate undocumented youth. This study uses unique administrative data to examine how policing practices affect the college outcomes of undocumented youth. We merge data from the NYPD's Stop-Question-Frisk (SQF) program, which records 5 million police stops in NYC between 2003 and 2014, with CUNY administrative data, which reliably identifies legal status and offers data on the population of undocumented youth attending college in NYC. We use the SQF data to estimate individual level exposure to police enforcement near places of residence and around college campuses and estimate the effect of exposure on students' academic performance.

Authors

• Amy Hsin, Queens College, CUNY

• Linna Marten, Stanford

• Nikolas Harder, Stanford