In this paper, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration, and study the causes of … anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to US cities between 1910 and 1930 induced … by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s, and instrument immigrants' location decision relying on pre …

ofIrish Famine immigration and was at the forefront of industrialization in the United States. Votersin towns with more …

local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are …

early 20th century, I study immigration’s cross-generation effect on the native-born. I examine the causal impact of …-level immigration exposure. I show that childhood exposure to immigrants increases natives’ occupation ranks in adulthood, and children … of high-skilled fathers enjoy more benefits than their peers. The results suggest that immigration intensifies cross …

In this paper, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration, and study the causes of … anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to US cities between 1910 and 1930 induced … by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s, and instrument immigrants’ location decision relying on pre …

I develop a framework to explain why identity divides some communities and not others. An identity group is defined as … a group of individuals with the same `culture'. A community is divided when different identities are socially segregated … outcomes for a community: assimilation, where groups socially integrate and one group conforms to the culture of another; non …

their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we … consequence of reducing their well-being, since identity-concerned parents will constrain their daughter's choices. The model can … self-esteem for immigrant girls. This is especially true for Muslims, where traditional cultural identity is particularly …

immigration attitudes rests mainly on the identity/homogeneity domain of ideological position rather than the equity …Previous studies on the determinants of attitudes toward immigration can be classified into those that take a … utilitarian perspective, focusing on individuals’ perceptions of real-world impacts of immigration, and those that look at …

-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more immigrants identify with the German culture and fluently speak the national …