TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bacher, Etienne
AU  - Beine, Michel
AU  - Rapoport, Hillel
        TI  - Do Anti-Immigration Attitudes Discourage Immigration? Evidence from a New Instrument
        PY  - 2025/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18192
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18192
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - anti-immigration attitudes
KW  - terrorism
KW  - immigration
KW  - Europe
        ER  -