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Title: | Refugee reception, extreme-right voting, and compositional amenities: Evidence from Italian municipalities |
Author: | Gamalerio, Matteo Luca, Mario Romarri, Alessio Viskanic, Max |
Keywords: | Eleccions locals Extrema dreta Itàlia Refugiats Partits polítics Local elections right-wing extremists Italy Refugees Political parties |
Issue Date: | 1-May-2023 |
Publisher: | Elsevier B.V. |
Abstract: | We use data from Italy to study the political and social impact of a refugee reception policy (SPRAR) directly managed by local governments, whose features recall the conditions of the contact theory (Allport, 1954). Instrumental variables estimates indicate that municipalities that opened a refugee center between the 2013 and 2018 national elections experienced a change in the vote shares of extreme-right parties that is approximately 7 percentage points lower compared to municipalities that did not open a refugee center. We document that the positive impact of SPRARs on ‘‘compositional amenities’’ (i.e., local schools) and population growth allows explaining the negative impact on anti-immigrant prejudice. Finally, we provide evidence of spillovers in prejudice reduction in neighboring municipalities without a SPRAR. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103892 |
It is part of: | Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2023, vol. 100, p. 1-17 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/213002 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103892 |
ISSN: | 0166-0462 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Economia) |
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