Perceptions about others play an important role in shaping people's attitudes and behaviors,
as well as social norms more broadly. This review presents a meta-analysis of the recent …

Anti-Chinese sentiment increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting as a
considerable spike in overt violence and hatred directed at Asian American individuals …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss
the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …

We study how people change their behavior after being made aware of bias. Teachers in
Italian schools give lower grades to immigrant students relative to natives of comparable …

We study the long run effects of immigration on American political ideology. Exploiting cross-
county variation in the presence of European immigrants between 1900 and 1930, we …

I discuss economic and social sources of inequality and elaborate on the role of social
networks in inequality, economic immobility, and economic inefficiencies. The lens of social …

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 …

Process automation reduces racial disparities in credit access by enabling smaller loans,
broadening banks' geographic reach, and removing human biases from decision making …

ABSTRACT A growing body of work has shown that aggregate shocks affect the formation of
preferences and beliefs. This article reviews evidence from sociology, social psychology …

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 …