This paper studies the relationship between mass immigration in Argentina and the rise of Juan D. Perón (the iconic Argentine populist leader) in the mid-20th century. We find no evidence suggesting that mass immigration to Argentina from 1876 through 1925 explains Peronism directly or...

This paper examines whether the institutional quality of immigrants' origin countries matters when testing the relationship between immigration and the US states' economic freedom scores. Our results show that, in the short run, the relationship between economic freedom and immigrants from...