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The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … associated with less upward mobility. Our results contribute to literatures on immigrant assimilation, refugee migration, and the … Age of Mass Migration …
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We examine the effect of remittances from abroad on households' schooling decisions using data for El Salvador …. Following the massive war-related emigration of the 1980's, remittances became a significant source of household income … income from a source that is uncorrelated with parental schooling remittances , we find that remittances have a large …
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field studies of school matching show that information is imperfect, particularly for disadvantaged students. We model …
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We take cohorts of entering freshmen at the United States Air Force Academy and assign half to peer groups with the goal of maximizing the academic performance of the lowest ability students. Our assignment algorithm uses peer effects estimates from the observational data. We find a negative and...
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We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants' social integration based on Syrians' friendship links to Germans, their use of...
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How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrants' assimilation in host societies? This paper offers the first systematic answer to this question by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved to America, and anti-Catholic...
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