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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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Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences

Barone, Guglielmo; D'Ignazio, Alessio; De Blasio, Guido; … - 2014

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find …

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The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

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Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right: (Unexpected) Results from Austria

Steinmayr, Andreas - 2016

This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state elections in an Austrian state in September 2015 the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPOE)...

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Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences

Barone, Guglielmo; D'Ignazio, Alessio; de Blasio, Guido; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781557

Does Trade Exposure Explain Anti-Globalization Votes?

Bouët, Antoine; Edo, Anthony; Emlinger, Charlotte - 2024

We investigate the local effects of trade exposure and immigration on voting behavior in France from 1988 to 2022. We … use the content of each candidate's manifesto to construct an anti-globalization voting index for each French presidential … products imported. While exposure to imports of final goods increases anti-globalization voting, exposure to imports of …

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Vote Influence in Group Decision-Making: The Changing Role of Justices' Peers on the Supreme Court

Mindock, Maxwell R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2019

We consider the voting behavior of Supreme Court Justices, finding evidence of co-dependencies in their votes … more-equal party representation on the Court encouraging greater party awareness in Justice voting, and less-equal party …

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Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects

Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2023

There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is assumed that agents are linearly affected by the mean action of their peers. We develop a new...

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Informal Social Interactions, Academic Achievement and Behavior: Evidence from Peers on the School Bus

Lenard, Matthew A.; Silliman, Mikko - 2024

We study the effects of informal social interactions on academic achievement and behavior using idiosyncratic variation in peer groups stemming from changes in bus routes across elementary, middle, and high school. Our results suggest that student interactions outside the classroom - especially...

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Identifying Peer Effects in Networks with Unobserved Effort and Isolated Students

Houndetoungan, Aristide; Kouame, Cristelle; … - 2024

Peer influence on effort devoted to some activity is often studied using proxy variables when actual effort is unobserved. For instance, in education, academic effort is often proxied by GPA. We propose an alternative approach that circumvents this approximation. Our framework distinguishes...

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