If immigration causes a decrease in social cohesion, then it may also be an important contributing factor in the recent failure of financial institutions. The present analysis finds some evidence for a negative relationship between immigration and volunteering from the Current Population Survey...

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If immigration causes a decrease in social cohesion, then it may also be an important contributing factor in the recent failure of financial institutions. The present analysis finds some evidence for a negative relationship between immigration and volunteering from the Current Population Survey...

This paper presents an idealized model of social interaction, where preferences are private information and individuals cannot condition their behavior on the identity of whom they are interacting with. An optimal decentralized benchmark rule is identified, where each individual imposes some...