Does mass immigration destroy institutions? 1990s Israel as a natural experiment

Diversity, Institutions, and Economic Outcomes: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland

“…My findings support the conclusions of the emerging scholarship on how immigrants affect institutions in the receiving states. Researchers have found that immigrants do not weaken and may even improve the host countries’ institutional environments (Clemens and Pritchett 2016; Padilla and Cachanosky 2018; Pavlik, Padilla, and Powell 2018), including by lobbying and voting for better economic policy (Clark et al 2015; Nowrasteh, Forrester, and Blondin 2018; Powell, Clark, and Nowrasteh 2017) or by increasing the natives’ investments in compulsory schooling and other nation-building tools (Bandiera et al 2018). I propose that in addition to these channels, migrants who stem from different institutional backgrounds are more likely to rely on host-country institutions, which act as a common denominator in culturally heterogeneous settings.…”

Migration and institutional quality across Italian provinces: The role of human capital

“…These findings have been supported by Powell et al, (2017). The authors, indeed, pointed out that during the 1990s, the mass migration from the Soviet Union to Israel due to the exogenous shock of the relaxation in the emigration restrictions in the Soviet Union not only increased the Israel's population by 20%, but also affected the institutions in the destination country by bringing the Israel's economic freedom 15% below the global average to 12% above the same average.…”

“…On the one hand, a strand of research has focused the attention on the impact on the origin country, highlighting a beneficial effect related to the ability of migrants to transfer norms, values and institutions from the receiving country to the origin place (the so called 'diaspora' effect) (Beine & Sekkat, 2013;Chauvet & Mercier, 2014;Docquier et al, 2016;Spilimbergo, 2009). On the other hand, other studies have provided evidence of a positive effect on the receiving country, suggesting that the changes in institutions descend from the migrant participation in the political process of the destination country (Clark, Lawson, Nowrasteh, Powell, & Murphy, 2015;Powell, Clark, & Nowrasteh, 2017).…”

What has New Zealand gained from The FTA with China?: Two counterfactual analyses†

“…Since its introduction, the SCM has seen a range of applications in economics, political science, and international relations. 10 In the words of Athey and Imbens 10 Examples of such applications include openness and trade liberalization policies (Nannicini and Billmeier, 2011;Billmeier and Nannicini, 2013;Ritzel and Kohler, 2017), impact of trade agreements (Hosny, 2012;Hannan, 2016Hannan, , 2017Aytuğ et al, 2017), impact of joining a currency union (Saia, 2017;Puzzello and Gomis-Porqueras, 2018), economic regimes/political stability (Matta et al, 2019;Jales et al, 2018;Grier and Maynard, 2016;Meyersson, 2017), natural disasters (Coffman and Noy, 2012;Cavallo et al, 2013;Mideksa, 2013;Barone and Mocetti, 2014;Mohan, 2017), terrorism, civil wars, crime, and political risks (Montalvo, 2011;Pinotti, 2015;Singhal and Nilakantan, 2016;Bilgel and Karahasan, 2017;Bove et al, 2017;Costalli et al, 2017;Bove and Elia, 2018), health economics (Bilgel and Galle, 2015;Kreif et al, 2016), economic sanctions (Gharehgozli, 2017), migration (Powell et al, 2017), and natural resource discoveries (Smith, 2015). (2017, p. 9), the synthetic control approach is "arguably the most important innovation in the policy evaluation literature in the last 15 years.…”