Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investments

Burchardi, Konrad B.; Chaney, Thomas; Hassan, Tarek A.

doi:10.1093/restud/rdy044

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“…27 We focus on the one percent ACS also individual characteristics like education and citizenship status. As discussed previously, we limit our sample to Hispanic, black, and white heads of households with less than a high school degree -a fragile and connected sample of households.…”

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Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities

Alsan¹,

Yang²

2018

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This paper studies how changes in deportation fear induced by the roll-out of Secure Communities (SC), a far-reaching immigration enforcement program, affected the demand for safety net programs in the United States. We estimate the spillover effect of SC on the take-up of federal means-tested programs by Hispanic citizens, who are not themselves eligible for removal. We find significant declines in SNAP and SSI enrollment, particularly among mixed-citizenship status households. The response is muted for Hispanic households residing in sanctuary cities. Our results are most consistent with network effects that perpetuate fear rather than lack of benefit information or stigma.

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Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities

Alsan¹,

Yang²

2018

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“…To address this, we use the total stock of immigrants in Europe net of those that that eventually settled in region r. A similar "leave-out" strategy is also used in Burchardi et al (2018) and Tabellini (2018). 25 We instrument the squared immigrants' share with the squared predicted immigrants' share.…”

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina

Murard

Rapoport

2019

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HighlightsWe examine the relationship between immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions in 16 Western European countries.Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of immigrants in their residence region is higher.This negative association is driven by regions of countries with relatively large Welfare States and by respondents at the center or at the right of the political spectrum.The effects are also stronger when immigrants originate from Middle-Eastern or Eastern European countries, are less skilled than natives, and experience more residential segregation.These results are unlikely to be driven by immigrants' endogenous location choices, that is, by welfare magnet effects or by immigrants' sorting into regions with better economic opportunities. They are also robust to instrumenting immigration with a standard shift-share approach or to controlling for regional growth prospects.They are also robust to instrumenting immigration with a standard shift-share approach or to controlling for regional growth prospects. AbstractWe examine the relationship between immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions in 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of immigrants in their residence region is higher. This negative association is driven by regions of countries with relatively large Welfare States and by respondents at the center or at the right of the political spectrum. The effects are also stronger when immigrants originate from Middle-Eastern or Eastern European countries, are less skilled than natives, and experience more residential segregation. These results are unlikely to be driven by immigrants' endogenous location choices, that is, by welfare magnet effects or by immigrants' sorting into regions with better economic opportunities. They are also robust to instrumenting immigration with a standard shiftshare approach or to controlling for regional growth prospects.

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“…There is evidence that proximity matters for venture capital investors(Bernstein, Giroud and Townsend, forth. ), and that migration links matter for FDI across locations in the US(Burchardi, Chaney and Hassan 2015).…”

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Long-Range Growth: Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links*

Campante

Yanagizawa-Drott

2017

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

135

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We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of 6,000 miles. We show that improving an airport's position in the network of air links has a positive effect on local economic activity, as captured by satellite-measured night lights. We find that air links increase business links, showing that the movement of people fosters the movement of capital. In particular, this is driven mostly by capital flowing from high-income to middle-income (but not low-income) countries. Taken together, our results suggest that increasing interconnectedness induces links between businesses and generates economic activity at the local level, but also gives rise to increased spatial inequality locally, and potentially globally.

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Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investments

Cited by 138 publications

References 78 publications

Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities

Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Long-Range Growth: Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links*

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