What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we construct a simple theoretical model which shows how...

What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...

What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...

What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...

Helmut Rainer, ifo Institut, Dan Anderberg, Royal Holloway University London, Gordon B. Dahl, UC San Diego, Christina Felfe, Universität Konstanz, und Thomas Siedler, Universität Potsdam, analysieren mit einem "Labor-im-Feld"-Experiment die Auswirkungen von Diversität in Schulklassen. Nicht...

What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...

Christina Gathmann, LISER, Luxemburg, und Universität Heidelberg, und Ole Monscheuer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, zeigen am Beispiel der Liberalisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts in Deutschland, dass ein liberaler Zugang zu Staatsbürgerschaft mit kurzen Wartezeiten die ökonomische...

Inequality of opportunity, particularly when overlaid with socioeconomic, ethnic, or cultural differences, may limit the scope of cooperation between individuals. A central question, then, is how to overcome such obstacles to cooperation. We study this question in the context of Germany, by...

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents’ decision- making. For example, in many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enrol their children in preschool programs or enable them access to higher education....