Titre : | Give a fish or teach fishing? Partisan affiliation of U.S. governors and the poverty status of immigrants (2017) |
Auteurs : | Sekou Keita ; Pierre Mandon |
Type de document : | Article : Revues - Articles |
Dans : | European Journal of Political Economy (Vol. 55, December 2018) |
Langues: | Anglais |
Catégories : |
[Eurovoc] ÉCONOMIE > comptabilité nationale > revenu > répartition du revenu > pauvreté [Eurovoc] GÉOGRAPHIE > Amérique > Amérique du Nord > États-Unis [Eurovoc] QUESTIONS SOCIALES > migration > migration > migrant [Eurovoc] VIE POLITIQUE > vie politique et sécurité publique > politique [JEL] D - Microéconomie > D3 – Distribution > D31 - Revenu personnel et distribution de la richesse [JEL] I - Santé, éducation et programmes sociaux > I3 - Programmes sociaux et pauvreté [JEL] J - Économie du travail et démographie économique > J00 - Généralités |
Tags : | partisan affiliation ; Immigrants' poverty ; regression discontinuity design ; mediation analysis |
Résumé : | This paper investigates how governors' partisan affiliation affects the poverty status ofimmigrants to the U.S. To this end, we compare the poverty outcomes of immigrants in statesruled by Democratic governors relative to the outcomes for those in states ruled by Republicangovernors. We employ a regression discontinuity design using the re-centered Democraticmargin of victory as a running variable, to overcome the identification challenge posed byconfounding factors. Consistent with the literature on partisan affiliation, we find thatimmigrants are more likely to get out of poverty in states with Democratic governors thanstates with Republican governors. Our results are submitted to a variety of robustness checksand sensitivity tests, to assess the validity of the identification strategy, and highlight conditionallame-duck effects. A formal mediation analysis reveals that the empirical results are mediatedthrough better access to the labor market and possibly through higher wages and labor earningsfor immigrants. Last but not least, we check for alternative hypotheses and potential detrimentaleffects for native populations. |
Doi : | DOI : 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2017.11.004 |
Axe de recherche : | Intégration des pays en développement dans l'économie mondialisée |
En ligne : | https://hal-clermont-univ.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01682716 |