along language borders? Improving on previous research in this area, we use a nationally representative household survey …, the Swiss Household Panel 1999 and 2000, and we explicitly account for self-selection of workers into language areas …

issue across language groups in Switzerland. Language defines social groups and Swiss language groups are separated by a … language border. We can therefore study the role of culture in shaping the demand for social insurance. Specifically, we … contrast at the language border actual voting decisions on country-wide changes to social insurance programs. Key results …

Based on research in linguistics and psychology I use language speech as a reflection of acculturation. I use …

Language serves two key functions. It enables communication between agents, which allows for the establishment and … to issues linked with trust, social capital, and cultural identification. While research on the role of language as a … learning process is widespread, there is no evidence on the role of language as a signal of cultural affinity. I pursue this …

language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case … language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural … experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …

volatility forecasts I find news volumes to improve forecasts, regardless of language. The relationship between news and …