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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the LAB
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2003
Field evidence suggests that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that avoids these problems. The main design feature is that each...
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Refugee migration and the labor market : lessons from 40 years of post-arrival policies in Denmark
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …
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School indiscipline and crime
Beatton, Tony; Kidd, Michael P.; Sandi, Matteo - 2022
This paper studies the impact of compulsory schooling on in-school violence using individual-level administrative data matching education and criminal records from Queensland. Exploiting a dropout age reform in 2006, it defines a series of regression-discontinuity specifications. While police...
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School and crime
Jones, Todd R.; Karger, Ezra - 2023
Criminal activity is seasonal, peaking in the summer and declining through the winter. We provide the first evidence that arrests of children and reported crimes involving children follow a different pattern: peaking during the school year and declining in the summer. We use a regression...
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Small children, big problems : childbirth and crime
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Rocha, Roberto Hsu; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2024
We investigate the effect of having a child on parents’ criminal behavior using rich administrative data from Brazil. Fathers’ criminal activity sharply increases by up to 10% during the pregnancy period, and by up to 30% two years after birth, while mothers experience only a transitory...
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The impact of forced migration on in-group and out-group social capital
Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2022
In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the … disparity between in-group and out-group social capital. This may cause refugees to favor in-group interactions and therefore …
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The impact of natives' attitudes towards immigrants on their integration in the host country
Schilling, Pia; Stillman, Steven - 2021
-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse … economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …
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The value of formal host-country education for the labour market position of refugees : evidence from Austria
Ludolph, Lars - 2021
Refugees hosted across the developed world often work in low-quality jobs, regardless of education previously attained … in their country of origin. In this paper, I analyse the long-term value of formal host-country education for refugees … attained in Austria vis-à-vis Bosnia on labour market outcomes for refugees aged around schooling thresholds. These estimates …
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Immigration, political ideologies and the polarization of American politics
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah; Matzat, Johannes; Mayda, … - 2020
refugees as opposed to all immigrants on aggregate. …
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
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