This paper investigates whether citizenship of immigrant students in the host country influences their choice of majors, and whether these effects differ by gender. Using detailed students' data from an Italian university, combined with characteristics of the countries of origin, I examine the...

Is naturalization an effective tool to boost refugees' labor market integration? We address this novel empirical question by exploring survey data from 21 European countries and leveraging variation in citizenship laws across countries, time, and migrant groups as a source of exogenous variation...

Das Bundeskabinett hat einen Gesetzentwurf zur Modernisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts beschlossen. Dadurch kann sich der Bildungserfolg von Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund verbessern. Denn: Wenn Kinder mit Migrationshintergrund einen deutschen Pass erhalten, müssen sie seltener eine...

Since the 1990s, global cultural shifts driven by neoliberalism have ushered in significant changes in the institutions of citizenship. This has given rise to an increasingly agentic conception of the individual, with strong meritocratic ideological underpinnings, as manifested across a wide...