TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Slotwinski, Michaela
AU  - Stutzer, Alois
AU  - Gorinas, Cédric
        TI  - Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law
        PY  - 2017/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10550
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10550
        AB  - Many people are concerned about societal cohesion in the face of higher numbers of foreigners migrating to Western democracies. The challenge for the future is to find and adopt institutions that foster integration. We investigate how the right to vote in local elections affects immigrants' compliance with the law. In our study for Denmark, we exploit an institutional regulation that grants foreigners local voting rights after three years of stay. Relying on register data, we find causal evidence that the first possibility to vote considerably reduces the number of legal offenses of non-Western male immigrants in the time after elections. 
        KW  - migration
KW  - voting rights
KW  - immigrant integration
KW  - crime
KW  - RDD
        ER  -