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Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures : How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2010

affect total expenditures in households headed by low-educated single mothers. However, patterns of expenditure did change … significant changes in expenditures on childcare or learning and enrichment activities. This pattern of results suggests that … welfare reform has shifted family expenditures towards items that facilitate work outside the home, but, at least so far, has …

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The Power of the Family

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that children need to have for their parents for over 70...

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International Student Mobility : Growth and Dispersion

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2019

mobility – the human capital model and the migration model – across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest … that while the predictions of the migration model are generally valid in explaining student emigration to non …

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...

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Revealing Stereotypes : Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2018

If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant students compared to natives who have the same performance...

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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Health and Mental Health Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement

Wang, Julia Shu-Huah - 2018

We study the effect of two local immigration enforcement policies – Section 287(g) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Secure Communities Program (SC) – that have escalated fear and risk of deportation among the undocumented on the health and mental...

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Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2014

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food...

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Immigration and Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2018

We design and conduct large-scale surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how natives perceive immigrants and how these perceptions influence their preferences for redistribution. We find strikingly large misperceptions about the number and characteristics of immigrants: in all...

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