Optimal Immigration and Cultural Assimilation
构建模型分析文化冲突在移民及移民政策中的作用，指出文化差异导致摩擦，移民需付出成本同化，并联合分析同化与迁移决策，揭示常见政策工具无法实现最优。
This article develops a model that examines the role of cultural conflict in immigration and immigration policy. Cultural differences lead to frictions between natives and immigrants unless the latter make a costly investment to assimilate. This article’s key contribution is the joint analysis of the assimilation and migration decisions, which highlights the inefficiency of some commonly advocated policy tools to achieve the first best. U.S. data provide preliminary support for the model’s implications.