economic integration encourages governments to take steps to resolve conflicts and vice versa, creating a virtuous circle of …

This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education … rich, who can resort to private education. I also analyze the overall society-wide effect of the integration policy and …

concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants' interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …

integrated economy, both relative to integration across the borders of the German state and in absolute terms. Second, this … barriers that divided Germany along natural trade routes into eastern and western parts. Third, internal integration improved …, while external integration worsened after World War I and again with the Great Depression, in part because of border changes …

-West border; political integration is not rapidly followed by economic integration. Instead, we estimate that it takes at least …