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This paper examines the impact of introducing birthright citizenship in Germany on the educational trajectories of second-generation immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a legal change in 2000 that granted children of foreigners with longtime residency automatic citizenship at birth....
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schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents’ integration. My analysis links administrative records on … improves the integration of parents along several dimensions, such as labor market outcomes, financial worries, and German …
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children born in Germany after January 1, 2000. Using survey data we collected in 57 German schools and comparing those born in …
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We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … courses had a substantial causal effect on the social integration of Syrian migrants. We also use fluctuations in the presence …
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abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to the origins facilitate the transmission, while social integration …
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This paper analyzes how the impacts of ICT, Software & Databases, and Robots on European regional labor markets (1995 …
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This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …
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We investigate the impact of early internet availability at basic speeds on local economic development in remote areas of developing countries by analyzing nighttime light emissions across towns in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we exploit submarine cable...
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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...
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