interaction can either result in (peaceful) trade or in appropriative conflict. Ethnic divisions affect the reputation cost of …

cohort. Evidence using a large German data set suggests ethnicity does matter: the size of the ethnic network has a positive …

We project the religious composition of the United States to 2043, considering fertility differences, migration …, intergenerational religious transmission and conversion by 11 ethnoreligious groups. If fertility and migration trends continue …

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

with that of migration and addresses this gap by developing a theory of a growing phenomenon: the transnational social …

examine the importance of credit constraints on internal labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via the PRC … variable framework. The results reveal that the direct effect on migration of MLSA is negative, although the net effect is … the community, stimulating migration particularly within credit-constrained minority communities. …

international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by … struggle of the local population to prevent such assimilation. These activities affect trade possibilities. Moreover, we show … that it may well be in the interest of migrants who specialize in trade to, at some point in time, turn from investing in …