Paul H. Lapinski

Hello! I am a fourth year PhD student in Economics at American University. I am interested in public and labor economics with a focus on immigrant participation in the U.S. safety net. My current work evaluates the labor and poverty effects of immigrants becoming tax credit eligible and analyzes the effect of access to representation on outcomes for cases determining immigrants’ legal status.

During the 2024-25 academic year I will be a visiting student researcher at UC Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE).