In 2015, Germany welcomed close to one million asylum seekers and refugees from Syria,
Afghanistan, the Western Balkans and elsewhere. Although the country was often praised …

Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address
this question based on the large and unexpected refugee inflow to Germany that peaked in …

A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in
the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of …

Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we
study the impact of native attitudes, proxied by voting behaviors, on refugees' integration. We …

We investigate the impact of social media (eg, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn)
on left-wing and right-wing populist voting patterns within the European Union 27 (EU-27) …

How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about
immigration? Using individual-level panel data for the years 2012–2018 and a policy that …

The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022 prompted a significant
influx of Ukrainian refugees into neighboring European countries. Comparative analyses …

We use data from Italy to study the political and social impact of a refugee reception policy
(SPRAR) directly managed by local governments, whose features recall the conditions of the …

Do voters place their trust in tried and tested leaders when uncertainty is high or do they
prefer a new slate of leaders who are arguably more competent? To study this question, we …

We investigate the effect of the refugee inflow between 2014 and 2017 on the electoral
support for far-right parties in the 2017 German federal election. Leveraging unique, fine …