Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250152 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2021-30
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), Innsbruck
Abstract: 
We study a randomly-assigned program providing information on U.S. settlement for new Filipino immigrants. The intervention, a 2.5-hour pre-departure training and an accompanying paper handbook, has no effect on employment, settlement, and subjective wellbeing, but leads immigrants to acquire substantially fewer social network connections. We rationalize these findings with a simple model, showing that information and social network links are substitutes under reasonable assumptions. Consistent with the model, the treatment reduces social network links more when costs of acquiring network links are lower. Offsetting reductions in the acquisition of social network connections can hence reduce the effectiveness of information interventions.
Subjects: 
Immigrant integration
social networks
imperfect information
multiple hypothesis testing
JEL: 
D83
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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