Manhattan Institute’s Criticisms Vindicate Cato’s Report on Fiscal Effect of Immigrants: Part 2

David J. Bier

Read: Manhattan Institute’s Criticisms Vindicate Cato’s Report on the Fiscal Effect of Immigrants: Part 1

The Manhattan Institute (MI) published a criticism of Cato’s immigration report on the effects of immigrants on government budgets. In Part 1, I explained how MI misrepresented the plausibility of our conclusion and, in so doing, revealed flaws in its own methods that understate the net effect of immigrants on government budgets. Now I will turn to MI’s methodological criticisms...