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Immigrant Group Size and Political Mobilization : Evidence from European Migration to the United States

Shertzer, Allison - 2013

Immigration to democratic nations generates new groups of potential voters. This paper investigates how the electorate share of immigrant groups influences their likelihood of becoming politically mobilized, focusing on the mechanism of coalition formation with the Democratic Party. Using newly...

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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

than a risk. Refugees living in these areas report better health and feel less exposed to xenophobia …

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Mexican immigration to the United States

Borjas, George J. (ed.) - 2007

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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...

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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...

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Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2007

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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Heterogeneity in Long Term Health Outcomes of Migrants within Italy

Atella, Vincenzo - 2013

This article examines the long term physical and mental health effects of internal migration focusing on a relatively … migration effect among early-cohort females on physical health. We find no evidence of migration-health effects for the later … effects and find that there is a significant and substantial improvement in physical and mental health for a fraction of …

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The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Cornell, Paul; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States …

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Games Daughters and Parents Play : Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers

Hao, Lingxin - 2000

In this paper, we examine the empirical implications of reputation formation using a game-theoretic model of intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in repeated two-stage games in which daughters' decision to have a child as a teenager and the willingness of parents to...

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Testing Parental Altruism : Implications of a Dynamic Model

McGarry, Kathleen - 2000

Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While intuition might suggest that these transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-being of the children, the fundamental prediction of the altruistic model has been decisively rejected in empirical...

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