Do elections affect immigration? Evidence from French municipalities q

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Schmutz, Benoit; Verdugo, Gregory
• 署名单位: Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole Polytechnique; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; Universite Paris Saclay; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104803
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: immigration; Public housing; local elections

摘要

Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immi-grants across municipalities. In municipalities where a left-instead of right-wing mayor has been elected, the share of immigrants in the population grows faster by 1.5 p.p. within six years after the elections, and by 3 p.p. within twelve years. To a large extent, these effects are driven by partisan differences in public housing constructions and changes in the composition of the population within existing public housing units. They also are associated with greater incumbency advantage, in line with a model of strategic par-tisan behavior. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.