Brian McGarry
Faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-author of the working paper linking immigrant health care workers to reduced mortality among older adults.
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Feb 24, 2026 • 6min
The link between immigration and longer life
Brian McGarry, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, links immigrant healthcare workers to lower mortality among older Americans. He discusses how increased immigration boosts staffing of nurses and aides. He explains connections between staffing, keeping seniors out of nursing homes, and longer life. The conversation also covers estimates of lives potentially saved by higher immigration.
