We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on public
spending and on individual support for the welfare state. The survey puts a particular focus …

Does immigration change support for redistribution? We design and conduct large-scale
surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how people perceive immigrants and …

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United
Kingdom, France, and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of …

Researchers have investigated the effects of ethnic heterogeneity on a range of
socioeconomic and political outcomes. However, approaches to measuring ethnic diversity …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss
the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …

The book explores the ways in which social cohesion—measured as trust in unknown fellow
citizens—can be established and undermined. It examines the US and UK, where social …

This paper investigates the causal link between the ethnic diversity in a society and its
inhabitants' preferences for redistribution. We exploit exogenous variation in immigrant …

We examine the relationship between immigration and preferences for redistribution in
Europe using a newly assembled dataset of immigrant stocks for 140 regions in 16 Western …

Using data from a recent nationwide survey, we provide the first analysis of the supporter
base of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) since the party's split and ideological re …

I study the impact of immigration and increasing ethnic diversity on political outcomes in
immigrant‐receiving countries, focusing on immigration and election outcomes in Danish …