Immigrants, Trust and Social Traps

Annalisa Marini

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The paper estimates a social interactions model to study the impact of culture on US immigrants' decisions. Findings vary by group of immigrants and by type of social interactions and they are robust to both additional checks and sensitivity analysis. The paper contributes to the literature as follows. It first estimates a social interactions model that models both group formation and the formation of social interactions. Besides, since this is an observational learning model policy suggestions may be drawn to favor integration of immigrants. Finally, it provides a new empirical strategy to study the impact of both inherited and contemporaneous culture on individual decisions.

Keywords: Social Interactions; Culture; Sequential Logit; Simulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C31 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-01, Revised 2016-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mig, nep-soc and nep-ure
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