We use a population resettlement program in Indonesia to identify long-run effects of intergroup contact on national …

disentangle the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …

Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated … majority of individuals from one culture, individuals from minority groups will be assimilated more quickly. Assimilation is … less likely when an immigrant's native culture and language is broadly represented in his new country. Also, when …

previously thought. Persistence is also culture specific, in the sense that the country of origin of one's ancestors matters for …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …