Calendrier du 16 octobre 2018
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 16/10/2018 de 17:00 à 18:00
LIPPMANN Quentin ()
Trickle Down Effects of Gender Quotas. Evidence from French Politics.
Paris Migration Seminar
Du 16/10/2018 de 16:30 à 19:00
PSE salle R1.09, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
ELSNER Benjamin(University College Dublin)
MURARD Elie (University of Trento)
Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State
Du 16/10/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ELSNER Benjamin(University College Dublin)
MURARD Elie (University of Trento)
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Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 16/10/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
VISKANIC Max (Sciences Po)
Dismantling the Jungle: Migrant Relocation and Extreme Voting in France
Can a small scale inflow of migrants a.ect electoral outcomes? We study whether the relocation of migrants from the Calais "Jungle" to temporary migrant-centers (CAOs) in France a.ected the results of the 2017 presidential election. Using an instrumental variables approach that relies on the size of holiday villages present in municipalities, we .find that in the presence of a CAO, the percentage growth rate of vote shares for the main far-right party (Front National) between 2012 and 2017 is reduced by about 15.7 percentage points. Given that the FN vote share increased by 20% on average between 2012 and 2017 in French municipalities, this estimation suggests that the growth rate of FN vote in municipalities with a CAO was only 25% the one of municipalities without a CAO (which corresponds to an increase lower by 4 percentage points). These e.ffects, which dissipate spatially and depend on city characteristics and on the size of the inflow, point towards the contact hypothesis (Allport (1954))