Circles of Trust: A Proposal for Better Migrant Screening
针对移民筛查中的信息不对称问题，提出让潜在移民组成“信任圈”共同申请，利用成员间的相互监督和连带责任来筛选可靠者，对政策制定者和移民研究者有参考价值。
Screening potential entrants is a major challenge to any system of immigration. At bottom, the problem is one of information asymmetry, in which migrants hold private information as to their abilities and intentions. We propose a new approach that leverages information that potential entrants have about each other. Certain potential entrants to the United States would have to apply as a small group, called a trust circle. Once inside the country, all members would be subject to onerous bureaucratic requirements, but these would be waived over time for trust circles that remain in good standing. However, if anyone within a trust circle becomes involved in hostile or criminal activities, every member of the group would summarily lose his or her privileges. Knowing this, potential migrants will associate only with others they trust and would have incentives to expose others in the group who adopt bad behaviors after entry.