%0 Report
        %A Bacher, Etienne
%A Beine, Michel
%A Rapoport, Hillel
        %T Do Anti-Immigration Attitudes Discourage Immigration? Evidence from a New Instrument
        %D 2025
        %8 2025 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 18192
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18192
        %X We investigate the effect of anti-immigration attitudes on immigration plans to Europe. We
propose a new instrument for attitudes toward immigration, namely, the number of country nationals
killed in terrorist attacks taking place outside of Europe. Our first-stage results confirm
that such terrorist attacks increase negative attitudes to immigration in the origin country of the
victims. Our second-stage results then show that this higher hostility toward migrants decreases
the attractiveness of the country for prospective immigrants.
        %K anti-immigration attitudes
%K terrorism
%K immigration
%K Europe