Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316742 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17787
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study how the US presidential election of 2016 affected the subsequent inflow of Mexican-born immigrants. We use the "Matricula Consular de Alta Seguridad" data to construct proxies for annual inflows and internal movements of Mexican-born individuals, including undocumented immigrants, across US commuting zones. We find that a 10-percentage point increase in the Republican vote share in a commuting zone reduced inflows by 1.8 percent after the 2016 Trump election. The internal relocation of established Mexican immigrants primarily explains this reduction, though inflows of new immigrants decreased as well.
Subjects: 
networks
political shocks
migration
JEL: 
D72
F22
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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