We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the nineteenth
century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades …

This paper examines the political attributes of emigrants and how their departure affects the
electoral outcomes in their home countries. I argue that emigrants are different from those …

While policy makers, international organizations and academics are increasingly aware of
the economic effects of emigration, the potential political effects remain understudied. This …

International mobility of people brings great opportunities and large overall benefits.
Economically stagnant areas, however, may be deprived of talent through emigration. This …

During the age of mass migration (1850–1913), one of the largest migration episodes in
history, the United States maintained a nearly open border, allowing the study of migrant …

Abstract The 2004 accession of 8 Eastern European countries (plus Cyprus and Malta) to
the European Union (EU) was overshadowed by feared mass migration of workers from …

Migration is often discussed as one of several factors underlying political change. But the
precise kind of political change we should expect in areas of high in‐migration is often not …

This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural
experiment, we exploit the sudden arrival of eight million forced migrants in West Germany …

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community
and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the …

In this article, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration, and
study the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European …