(Forthcoming Article) - We study how international migrant income prospects affect long-run development in origin areas. We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis exchange rate shocks in a shift-sha...

A stalled economic conveyor belt is behind the rise of anti-system, anti-growth parties on both the right and left

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Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

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Fraud and cover-up

Abstract. We quantify how labor supply elasticities and reservation wages vary between people and over time, and infer workers’ valuation of flexibility in

Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

Abstract. Rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural villages of Mozambique using a randomized field experiment. We find that mobile money increased migration out of these villages, where we observe lower agricultural activity and investment. At the same time, remittances received and welfare of rural households increased, particularly when facing georeferenced village-level floods and household-level idiosyncratic shocks. Our work suggests that mobile money can accelerate urbanization and structural change in sub-Saharan Africa.

This paper examines internal migration from a lifetime perspective using unique data on detailed residential biographies of individuals born in German...

Humanitarian aid systems are under mounting pressure, with key donors like the US and UK cutting funding despite growing needs. New research in one of the world’s largest refugee camps shows that aid ...

(Forthcoming Article) - We show that administrative hourly wage data exhibits considerable bunching at round numbers. We run two experiments, randomizing wages around 10 cents and $1.00, to experiment...

Wie mithilfe des LLM-Grooming KI-Chatbots in Europa zur neuen Front im Informationskrieg werden.

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