influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally … immigrant threat and, thus, affects individuals’ beliefs about the need for immigrants’ cultural assimilation. Empirical … national identity, first, exhibits a robustly negative effect on the strength of individual preferences in favor of immigrants …

We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish … behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting patterns within Sweden’s largest commuting zone. We find that newly … arrived immigrants file fewer deductions than natives, that immigrants with a longer duration of stay in the host country …

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … naturalized immigrants. We also take into account possible spillover effects of immigrants on criminal activities by Germans … instrumental variable approach that deals with the possibly endogenous allocation of immigrants and allows for causal …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland …

natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier evidence consistent with son preference in that having a female … bargaining power. In contrast, some evidence for son preference in fertility persists among immigrants. Immigrant families that … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For …

workers shows that our findings are consistent with white-collar immigrants capturing an informational rent. The evidence … activity. Second, we show that wages react to changes in export intensity when the export destination coincides with the origin …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …