Migration and social preferences

Marino Fages, Diego; Morales Cerda, Matías

Abstract

Anti-immigrant sentiment is frequently motivated by the idea that migrants are a threat to the host country’s culture (Rapoport et al., 2020). We contribute to the discussion by investigating whether or not migrants adapt their social preferences (SPs) to those prevalent in their host country. Relying on a global and experimentally validated survey we show that migrants’ preferences strongly correlate with their host population’s SPs and provide suggestive evidence of a causal relationship in line with the assimilation hypothesis.

Citation

Marino Fages, D., & Morales Cerda, M. (2022). Migration and social preferences. Economics Letters, 218, Article 110773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110773

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 26, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Jul 30, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022-09
• Deposit Date: Sep 26, 2023
• Journal: Economics Letters
• Print ISSN: 0165-1765
• Electronic ISSN: 1873-7374
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 218
• Article Number: 110773
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110773
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1748694