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Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in Aging Populations

Comertpay, Rana - 2019

This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for...

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The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country

Schilling, Pia; Stillman, Steven - 2021

Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees’ integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts...

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Priming Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Implications for Migration Research and Survey Design

Dylong, Patrick; Setzepfand, Paul; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2023

Using data from two representative and large-scale population surveys with more than 4000 participants, we investigate the effect of randomized priming interventions on attitudes towards immigrants. We document robust null effects of these interventions under two experimental settings, across...

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Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2021

We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the...

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When Distrust Goes Viral : Causal Effects of COVID-19 on European Political Attitudes

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea FM; … - 2021

To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...

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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …

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A Residual-Based Threshold Method for Detection of Units that are Too Big to Fail in Large Factor Models

Kapetanios, George - 2019

The importance of units with pervasive impacts on a large number of other units in a network has become increasingly recognized in the literature. In this paper we propose a new method to detect such influential or dominant units by basing our analysis on unit-specific residual error variances...

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Panel Unit Root Tests in the Presence of a Multifactor Error Structure

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; Yamagata, Takashi - 2021

This paper extends the cross sectionally augmented panel unit root test proposed by Pesaran (2007) to the case of a multifactor error structure. The basic idea is to exploit information regarding the unobserved factors that are shared by other time series in addition to the variable under...

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Wind of Change? Experimental Survey Evidence on the COVID19 Shock and Socio-Political Attitudes in Europe

Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 crisis has affected the way we think about (political) institutions, as well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, well into the first wave of the...

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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology

Enke, Benjamin - 2019

Throughout the Western world, people's policy preferences are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion. Based on a simple model, we propose that what partly explains the particular internal structure of political ideology is heterogeneity in moral universalism: the extent to...

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