-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 are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …

-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 are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …

-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 are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …

This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on … percent of communities hosted refugees at the time of the election, exposure to refugees varied at the local level. To account … for the potential endogeneity in the distribution of refugees, I use pre-existing group accommodations as instrumental …

An important concern about the surge in the number of refugees arriving in Europe is increased support for far … effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). In the … 42 percent of Upper Austrian communities hosted refugees at the time of the election, direct exposure to refugees varied …

distinguish between the contact theory, captured by the inflow of refugees into the immediate neighborhood (1km x 1km), and county …

distinguish between the contact theory, captured by the inflow of refugees into the immediate neighborhood (1km x 1km), and county …

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 an increase in the population share of refugees increases the vote share …