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. …

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 …

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

employees work for two shifts. In one treatment, we lay off parts of the workforce before the second shift. Compared to two …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital … accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic growth and enriches the budget of the autocratic elite. On the other side …, education increases the “awareness” of citizens - capturing their reluctance to accept a dictatorship and their labor …

incentives to educate. A key feature of our model is that education acts simultaneously as a signaling device and as a method for … workers to enhance their productivity. We show that when firms can only imperfectly screen workers, the result is an economy …