We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect … schools, we find evidence for two opposing effects. Ethnic fractionalization increases the likelihood of students sorting into … people-oriented occupations while ethnic polarization reduces this likelihood. Using data on social and cognitive skills, we …

distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe. On the other hand, the effect of technology is more nuanced. At the … industry level, technological changes have an effect on polarization of jobs, but not on polarization of wages. At the … occupations, and we find only mild evidence of wage polarization. Technology affects the lower and upper part of the wage …

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …

fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. -- ethnic fragmentation … ; conflict ; displaced persons ; human trafficking …

Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull … significant economic variable. In addition, we demonstrate that it is episodes of escalating conflict, rather than accumulated … violence, that drives decisions to leave. Out-of-sample predictions indicate that if conflict in origin countries were to cease …

We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment … exploits the locality-level variation in the intensity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank during the Second … Intifada (2000–2005). We show that an increase in family experience of conflict has large negative long-term effects on the …

ethnicity and immigrant type. Whites tend to do better than non-whites and labour market entrants do worse than education … ethnicity and immigrant type. Whites tend to do better than non-whites and labour market entrants do worse than education …