undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

During the 1980s youth unemployment rates have persistently exceeded unemployment rates for adults, in Britain as in … other OECD countries. In the interwar period, youth unemployment rates in Britain were dramatically lower than those for … industrial composition of employment, and economy-wide changes in the share of juveniles employed (due to changes in youth …

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host … family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …

in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of … second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the …

on the migrant’s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …

data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in …

-skilled immigration wave was one of the main determinants for the fast growth of the Israeli economy in the 1990s. In this paper, I use a …