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This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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specifically, Mexican. Linking data on self-reported ethnicity, ancestry, and parental place of birth with county-level voter … discrimination and hostility. At the same time, anti-minority sentiment may raise the salience of ethnicity and race and thus …
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To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … communities in the origin location. Overall, our study unveils the importance of immigration policies in determining founding …
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Curricula impart knowledge, instill values, and shape collective memory. Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, and home schools,...
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Does the ability to generate verifiable digital financial histories, with customers having data-sharing rights, improve credit access? We answer this using India's launch of an Open-Banking based public digital payment infrastructure (UPI). Using rarely available data on the universe of consumer...
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This paper examines how homeownership status shapes attention to inflation and its impact on durable consumption. Using …, whereas renters do not. These results highlight homeownership as a key factor in the formation of inflation expectations and …
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homeownership, with a response function that exhibits substantial concavity but also an extremely high upper bound, and larger … there is little effect on total fertility. Our results support a causal pathway behind differences in homeownership and …
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Income and home ownership both surged in the United States between 1940 and 1960. We use cross-place variation in changes in real income to assess the importance of income gains to the mid-century home ownership boom. OLS and IV estimates suggest that a large share of the overall increase in...
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aftermath of the Great Recession, studying the trajectory of homeownership, consumption, and financial well-being over the … their short-term likelihood of retaining homeownership. More than half of this disparity persists nearly a decade later …, translating into an average capital gain of $83,000 in the housing market. Despite these significant differences in homeownership …
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