Giuseppe RUSSO | Projects

Our aim is studying the long-term effect of immigration policies on the diffusion and the intergenerational transmission of cultural norms. This will provide us with information about the outcome of the integration process in the host societies in the very long run. The project provides us with new insights on the long-run process through which contemporary societies integrate the minorities, shed

Our aim is to study the effect of restrictions on immigration on the socio-economic integration of the immigrants. In particular, we want to investigate the adaptation of the second-generations to the host society. This process plays a crucial role in the long-term adaptation of immigrant communities. A lack of integration has worrisome consequences for minorities, such as reducedeconomic opportu

International agreements must be self-enforcing. The necessity to motivate compliance influences the optimal design of the agreement. When compliance is challenging, it is crucial to strengthen the treaty to ensure that compliance is more attractive than is defection. This observation leads to a number of important questions. Which policy implements the best self-enforcing agreement? Is a rigid qu

In its very essence, learning is a technology. As such, it can be described bya production function, which, as in the R&D literature, we can call "knowledge production function". In the literature, few papers try to model how children learn. Our aim is to build a model of learning which accounts for the specific educational needs of second-generation immigrant children.