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-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that … attitudes. While intergenerational associations in attitudes towards immigration are equally high for sons and daughters, we …
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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 … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …
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concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant … spillovers from maternal education to immigration attitudes of her offspring. While we find no evidence for returns to education …
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of the participants with five statistics about immigration, before evaluating their attitude towards immigrants with self …, although it does not change people's policy preferences regarding immigration. Republicans become more willing to increase … legal immigration after receiving the information treatment. Finally, we also measure the same self-reported policy …
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Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most … to immigration? This paper reports results from a large-scale experiment conducted in Japan, a country with widespread … anti-immigration sentiment. Embedded in a comprehension study, we randomly exposed a large national sample of citizens to …
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This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in …
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Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants across municipalities. In municipalities where a left- instead of right-wing mayor has been elected, the share of immigrants in the population grows faster by 1.5 p.p. within six...
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immigration does not make a substantial difference to the odds of voting …
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