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T1 - The Effect of Far Right Parties on the Location Choice of Immigrants: Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors
AU - Bracco, Emanuele
AU - De Paola, Maria
AU - Green, Colin Peter
AU - Scoppa, Vincenzo
PY - 2017/3
Y1 - 2017/3
N2 - Immigration has increasingly taken centre-stage in the political landscape. Part of this has been rise in far-right, anti-immigration parties in a range of countries. Existing evidence suggests that the presence of immigrants has a substantial effect on the political views of the electorate, generating an advantage to these parties with anti-immigration or nationalist platforms. This paper explores a closely related issue but overlooked issue: how immigrant behavior is influenced by these parties. We focus on immigrant location decisions in Northern Italy which has seen the rise of the anti-immigration party Lega Nord. We construct a dataset of mayoral elections in Italy for the years 2002-2014, and calculate the effect of electing a mayor belonging to, or supported by Lega Nord. To identify this relationship we focus on mayors who have been elected with narrow margins of victory in a Regression Discontinuity framework. The election of Lega Nord mayor discourages immigrants from moving into the municipality.
AB - Immigration has increasingly taken centre-stage in the political landscape. Part of this has been rise in far-right, anti-immigration parties in a range of countries. Existing evidence suggests that the presence of immigrants has a substantial effect on the political views of the electorate, generating an advantage to these parties with anti-immigration or nationalist platforms. This paper explores a closely related issue but overlooked issue: how immigrant behavior is influenced by these parties. We focus on immigrant location decisions in Northern Italy which has seen the rise of the anti-immigration party Lega Nord. We construct a dataset of mayoral elections in Italy for the years 2002-2014, and calculate the effect of electing a mayor belonging to, or supported by Lega Nord. To identify this relationship we focus on mayors who have been elected with narrow margins of victory in a Regression Discontinuity framework. The election of Lega Nord mayor discourages immigrants from moving into the municipality.
KW - Immigration
KW - Geographical Mobility
KW - Voting Behavior
KW - Political economy
KW - Regression Discontinuity Design
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Economics Working Paper Series
BT - The Effect of Far Right Parties on the Location Choice of Immigrants: Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors
PB - Lancaster University, Department of Economics
CY - Lancaster
ER -