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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntalla, Osea; Stella, Luca - 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 … more likely to believe that refugees are a resource for the economy and the culture, viewing them as an opportunity rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427727
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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes Toward Newcomers
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 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 … more likely to believe that refugees are a resource for the economy and the culture, viewing them as an opportunity rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076707
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Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel; Turati, Riccardo - 2019
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated with economic complexity. This holds particularly for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179749
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An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment : Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan
Caria, Stefano - 2020
experiment. We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and … of all treatments for refugees at the two-month follow-up, and suggestive evidence of four-month impacts for the cash … grant; liquidity appears to be a key barrier to employment for refugees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823564
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Dimensions of Donation Preferences: The Structure of Peer and Income Effects
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019
Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments between and within subject. Donations are increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018187
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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266032
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Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance
Bosworth, Steven J.; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431340
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The Bonus-Income Donation Norm
Drouvelis, Michalis; Isen, Adam; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019
Can social norms affect fundamental patterns of behavior such as income effects? Studies of determinants of giving to charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether the effect of income on charitable giving depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179760
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Prosociality Spillovers of Working with Others
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin - 2018
Group compensation and public announcement of performance are two common aspects of working with other people. We randomly assign these aspects to real-effort tasks. Following task completion and payment, subjects are given an unexpected opportunity to donate to a local charity. Group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794188
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Can Charitable Appeals Identify and Exploit Belief Heterogeneity?
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2021
Charitable fundraisers frequently announce giving by others, and research shows that this can increase donations. However, this mechanism may not put information about peers to the most efficient use if it is costly to inform individuals who are indifferent to peer actions or causes some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493001