Plausibly Exogenous [1241] - Minorities (06/26/2023)
LHS Variable
Naturalization requests of immigrants
RHS Variable
Direct democracy
Source of Exogenous Variation
Variation generated by federal court rulings that forced municipalities to transfer the decisions to their elected municipality councils
- Hainmueller and Hangartner (2019), “Does Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Naturalization Decisions in Switzerland”