Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272476 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15849
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants across municipalities. In municipalities where a left- instead of right-wing mayor has been elected, the share of immigrants in the population grows faster by 1.5 p.p. within six years after the elections, and by 3 p.p. within twelve years. To a large extent, these effects are driven by partisan differences in public housing constructions and changes in the composition of the population within existing public housing units. They also are associated with greater incumbency advantage, in line with a model of strategic partisan behavior.
Subjects: 
local elections
public housing
immigration
JEL: 
D72
H4
H7
R38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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