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Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation : A comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890

Haines, Michael R. - 1989

taken into account. Comparisons of Engel curves are also made to households in Great Britain and Germany. Results from …

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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success

Battisti, Michele - 2016

immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between …

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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

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...

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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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The Social Integration of International Migrants : Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany

Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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 … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

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Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality : Evidence for Latin America

Caruso, Martín - 2019

Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to...

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Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting : Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi

Basurto, Pia M. - 2017

Developing countries spend vast sums on subsidies. Beneficiaries are typically selected via either a proxy-means test (PMT) or through a decentralized identification process led by local leaders. A decentralized allocation may offer informational or accountability advantages, but may be prone to...

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Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru

Karlan, Dean - 2013

For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...

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Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting : Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2013

Economic theory suggests that, when designing aid programs, ordeal mechanisms that impose differential costs for rich and poor can induce self-selection and hence improve targeting ("self-targeting"). We first re-examine this theory and show that ordeal mechanisms may actually have theoretically...

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Improving the Targeting of Treatment : Evidence from College Remediation

Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2012

At an annual cost of roughly $7 billion nationally, remedial coursework is one of the single largest interventions intended to improve outcomes for underprepared college students. But like a costly medical treatment with non-trivial side effects, the value of remediation overall depends upon...

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