Data and Code for: The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University; Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis; Walter Steingress, Bank of Canada

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Project Citation:

Mayda, Anna Maria , Peri, Giovanni, and Steingress, Walter. Data and Code for: The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-12-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119372V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper studies the impact of immigration to the United States on the vote share for the Republican Party using county-level data from 1990 to 2016. Our main contribution is to show that an increase in high-skilled immigrants decreases the share of Republican votes, while an inflow of low-skilled immigrants increases it. These effects are mainly due to the indirect impact on existing citizens' votes and this is independent of the origin country and race of immigrants. We find that the political effect of immigration is heterogeneous across counties and depends on their skill level, public spending and non-economic characteristics.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
F22 International Migration
J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1990 – 2016

Methodology

Data Source: Stata Do-files plus data sources

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