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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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Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change : A Nearest Neighbor Design

Bayer, Patrick J.; Casey, Marcus D.; McCartney, William B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Whether contemporary households consider the race of their neighbors when choosing a neighborhood is controversial. We study neighborhood choice using a novel research design that contrasts the move rate of homeowners who receive a new different-race neighbor nearby to that of homeowners who...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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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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Estimating the Potential Impact of Combined Race and Ethnicity Reporting on Long-Term Earnings Statistics

McKinney, Kevin L.; Abowd, John M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use place of birth information from the Social Security Administration linked to earnings data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program and detailed race and ethnicity data from the 2010 Census to study how long-term earnings differentials vary by place of birth for different...

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Movies

Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...

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To Ghetto or Not to Ghetto : Ethnicity and Residential Segregation

Borjas, George J. - 1997

and across ethnic groups. As a result, the segregation choices made by particular households depend both on the household … who belong to disadvantaged groups have lower probabilities of ethnic residential segregation relative to the choices made …

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Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013

This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation in the United States …. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods, or individual … counterparts in more integrated areas. This difference appears to reflect the causal effect of segregation on economic outcomes …

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Household Mobility, Networks, and Gentrification of Minority Neighborhoods in the US

Ferreira, Fernando Vendramel; Kenney, Jeanna H.; Smith, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

segregation. We first report that household moves from a given neighborhood are concentrated to a few destinations. For minority … that overall labor market area segregation decreases after a gentrification shock because highly Black neighborhoods become …

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How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption

Atkin, David - 2019

Are identities fungible? How do people come to identify with specific groups? This paper proposes a revealed preference approach, using food consumption to uncover ethnic and religious identity choices in India. We first show that consumption of identity goods (e.g. beef and pork) systematically...

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