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Exposure to refugees and voting for the far-right: (Unexpected) results from Austria
Steinmayr, Andreas - 2016
An important concern about the surge in the number of refugees arriving in Europe is increased support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. This paper studies a natural experiment in an Austrian federal state to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the...
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Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis
Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017
voting population were key drivers of the Vote Leave share, in particular their education profiles, their historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657159
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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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The political economy of higher education finance: how information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Wößmann, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018227
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Did Austerity Cause Brexit?
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018
Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887419
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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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Migrating Extremists
Ochsner, Christian; Rösel, Felix - 2016
-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that witnessed a Nazi influx exhibit significantly higher voting shares for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451400
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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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479308
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Migrants' Missing Votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314857
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Peer effects on the United States Supreme Court
Holden, Richard; Keane, Michael P.; Lilley, Matthew - In: Quantitative Economics 12 (2021) 3, pp. 981-1019
Using data on essentially every U.S. Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We estimate the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify the peer effects, we use two instruments that generate plausibly...
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