Giovanni Peri and coauthors publish in the American Economic Association

A recent publication by GMC Director Giovanni Peri with coauthors Anna Maria Mayda and Walter Steingress was featured in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. From the abstract: "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 noneconomic characteristics.

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