and linguistic distance measures to population-level preference differences (i) in a wide range of cross …-country regressions, (ii) in within-country analyses across groups of migrants, and (iii) in analyses that leverage variation across …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly …

both the world's population and global income. The global distribution of preferences exhibits substantial variation across … for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples from 76 countries around the world, representing 90 percent of … systematically with age, gender, and cognitive ability. Around the world, our preference measures are predictive of a wide range of …

migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …