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French police use aggressive techniques to stop migrants from crossing English Channel

> Officially, police are strictly forbidden from intercepting migrant boats at sea as they attempt to cross the #EnglishChannel. But, after months of investigation, Le Monde and its partners, Lighthouse Reports, the Observer and Der Spiegel, have documented many situations in which officers attempted to destabilize, or even sink, the small boats.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/03/23/french-police-use-aggressive-techniques-to-stop-migrants-from-crossing-english-channel_6648196_7.html #France #migration #immigration


French police use aggressive techniques to stop migrants from crossing English Channel

Officially, police are strictly forbidden from intercepting migrant boats at sea as they attempt to cross the English Channel.
Julia Pascual (Le Monde)
#france #migration #immigration #englishchannel

In the Netherlands, natives 8% less likely to cooperate with a non-Western immigrant, in second stage of a trust game, if immigrant trusts the native

In other words, the returns to being trustworthy are lower for the immigrant

By Cettolin+Suetens in EJ—> https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12629 #immigration

#immigration

Greater exposure to foreign-born classmates causes ↑ native math+reading test scores, greatest ↑ for black students

Uses *within household* variation, full universe K–12 data from Florida 2002–2012

Forthcoming in REStud by Figlio et al.—>

https://www.nber.org/papers/w28596 #immigration

Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Riccardo Marchingiglio, Umut Ozek, and Paola Sapienza ABSTRACT We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection into schools, and find that the presence of immigrant students has a positive effect on the academic achievement of US-born students, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Moreover, the presence of immigrants does not affect negatively the performance of affluent US-born students, who typically show a higher academic achievement compared to immigrant students. We provide suggestive evidence on potential channels.

Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
NBER
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Immigration-driven increases in ethnic/occupational diversity—measured by surname diversity in full-universe census—caused ↑ innovation in US counties, 1850–1940

Not compositional: robust to surname FE

Simply meeting more people unlike oneself causes more new economic ideas measured as patents, including 'breakthrough' highly-cited patents

By my star GMU colleague Jonathan Schulz, +Posch & Henrich—>

https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4531209 #LaborEcon #Immigration

Surname Diversity, Social Ties and Innovation Max Posch, Jonathan Schulz, Joseph Henrich August 3, 2023 Abstract We study whether interactions between individuals with different skills, expertise and perspectives influenced innovation in U.S. counties from 1850 to 1940. We introduce and validate a new measure of social interactional diversity based on the distribution of surnames: lower surname diversity indicates more concentrated social interactions among like-minded people. Leveraging quasi-random variation in counties’ surname compositions—stemming from the interplay between historical fluctuations in im- migration and local factors that attract immigrants—we find that surname diversity increases both the quantity and quality of innovation. The results support the view that social interactions between diverse minds are key drivers of innovation. Keywords: Innovation, social interactions, surname diversity, immigration JEL Classification: 033, R11, N92, J15, Z13

Surname Diversity, Social Ties and Innovation

dx.doi.org
#immigration #LaborEcon

Does immigration cause reduced support for social policy?

73 research teams—using identical data—reached vastly different estimates.

"Researchers must make analytical decisions so minute that they often do not even register as decisions."

Breznau et al.—> https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203150119 #immigration #laborecon

Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden the lens to emphasize the idiosyncrasy of conscious and unconscious decisions that researchers make during data analysis. We coordinated 161 researchers in 73 research teams and observed their research decisions as they used the same data to independently test the same prominent social science hypothesis: that greater immigra- tion reduces support for social policies among the public. In this typical case of social science research, research teams reported both widely diverging numerical findings and substantive conclusions despite identical start conditions. Researchers’ expertise, prior beliefs, and expectations barely predict the wide variation in research outcomes. More than 95% of the total variance in numerical results remains unexplained even after qualitative coding of all identifiable decisions in each team’s workflow. This reveals a universe of uncertainty that remains hidden when considering a single study in isolation. The idiosyncratic nature of how researchers’ results and conclusions varied is a previously underappreciated explanation for why many scientific hypotheses remain contested.
#immigration #LaborEcon

How Climate Change Will Redraw Maps and Borders.

As global warming intensifies, many parts of the world will become uninhabitable and millions will be forced to migrate, leaving map borders needing to be redrawn based on climate rather than geopolitics or sovereignty.
#climate #climatechange #immigration
https://impakter.com/how-climate-change-will-redraw-maps-and-borders/

How Climate Change Will Redraw Maps and Borders

Climate change will render many parts of the world unliveable, millions will be forced to migrate and map borders will need to be redrawn
Lauren Richards (Impakter)
#climatechange #climate #immigration

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