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Immigration and Electoral Outcomes : Evidence from the 2015 Refugee Inflow to Germany

Bredtmann, Julia - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I find that...

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Reducing Racial Inequality in Access to the Ballot Reduces Racial Inequality in Children's Later-Life Outcomes

Jones, Daniel B.; Shi, Ying - 2022

The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 removed barriers to voting for Black Americans in the South; existing work documents that this in turn led to shifts in the distribution of public funding towards areas with a higher share of Black residents and also reduced Black-White earnings disparities....

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The Political Economy of Propaganda : Evidence from Us Newspapers

Ottinger, Sebastian; Winkler, Max - 2022

We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media content in the 1890s. The Populist Party sought support among poor farmers, regardless of race, providing the segregationist Democratic establishment in the South with an incentive...

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Jobs, Crime, and Votes : A Short-Run Evaluation of the Refugee Crisis in Germany

Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...

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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies : Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia

Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021

How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...

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Peers' Race in Adolescence and Voting Behavior

Polipciuc, Maria; Cörvers, Frank; Montizaan, Raymond - 2021

Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. teenagers, we investigate how peer racial composition in high school affects individual turnout of young adults. We exploit across-cohort, within-school differences in peer racial composition. One within-school standard deviation increase in the...

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Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Evidence from Swiss Voting Results

Brunner, Beatrice - 2014

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...

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From Aliens to Citizens : The Political Incorporation of Immigrants

Bevelander, Pieter - 2014

This is a draft chapter for the Handbook on Economics of International Migration (Eds. B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller) and deals with the political incorporation of immigrants in host societies. Political incorporation is discussed with regard to the regulation of legal status, rights,...

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Minority Groups and Success in Election Primaries

Epstein, Gil S. - 2018

In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …

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Black Empowerment and White Mobilization : The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

Bernini, Andrea; Facchini, Giovanni; Tabellini, Marco; … - 2023

The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) paved the road to Black empowerment. How did southern whites respond? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration rates by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we...

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