Social identity has become accepted as a key concept underpinning the endogeneity of
economic behaviour and preferences. It is important in explaining attitudes towards …

Synthetic spatial microdata enable analyses of artificial populations in the form of individual
unit record files at a small area level. They allow analyses of estimates of variables that are …

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

The origins of this book go back to the co-participation of Gilles Kepel and David Laitin in the
Giorgio Cini Foundation's “I Dialoghi di San Giorgio” in September 2006 on the topic of …

This paper presents a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on cultural
transmission and socialization. It has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Economics …

We develop a theory of moral behavior, individual and collective, based on a general model
of identity in which people care about “who they are” and infer their own values from past …

Recent theoretical research deals with economic costs and benefits of cultural diversity
related to immigration. However, empirical evidence regarding the impact of cultural …

To investigate empirically the association between a direct measure of assimilation with a
host culture and immigrants' subjective well-being, this study uses data from the German …

While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have only increased slowly.
This paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and scale of European …

This article advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its
determinants, and explores its explanatory power for economic performance. The …