Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

Do forced assimilation policies always succeed in integrating immigrant groups? This article
examines how a specific assimilation policy—language restrictions in elementary school …

We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct
productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To …

Vulnerable social groups are often the recipients of statistical discrimination by financial
institutions. They therefor try to access the P2P lending market through voluntary digital …

We study ingroup bias—the preferential treatment of members of one's group—in naturally
occurring data, where economically significant allocation decisions are made under a strong …

How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of
existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration …

Does armed conflict reduce trade, even in noncombat areas, through the destruction of
intergroup social capital? We analyze Ukrainian trade transactions before and after the 2014 …

I study the effect of taste-based discrimination on the assimilation decisions of immigrant
minorities. Do discriminated minority groups increase their assimilation efforts in order to …

This paper investigates whether an employee's perception of customer wealth affects his
likelihood of engaging in illegal behavior. We propose that envy and empathy lead …

We provide the first evidence of the magnitude and consequences of the Americanization of
migrants' names in the early twentieth century. We construct a longitudinal data set of …