Expedited Citizenship for Sale: Estimating the effect of Executive Order 13269 on noncitizen military enlistments
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Cunha, Jesse M.
Sullivan, Ryan
Can, Melih
Yalcinkaya, Huseyin
Date
2014-02Metadata
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This paper estimates the effect of offering an expedited citizenship application process to noncitizens
for joining the U.S. military. Executive Order (EO) 13269, enacted in July of 2002,
allowed non-citizens to apply for U.S. citizenship immediately upon joining the military,
effectively reducing the waiting time that is required to apply for citizenship from three years to
one day. We identify the effect of the policy by using administrative personnel data on the
universe of military enlistees between 1999 and 2010 along with a difference-in-differences
strategy that uses accessions amongst citizens as the control group. Overall, we find no effect of
the offer of expedited citizenship on total accessions amongst non-citizens. However, this
overall null effect masks significant shifts of non-citizen enlistments out of combat intensive
services and into “safer” services. These results provide the first empirical evidence about this
important, and relatively costless, recruiting policy.
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