The spillover of anti-immigration politics to the schoolyard
利用意大利五年级学生普查数据，研究发现反移民政党活动强烈的地区，移民儿童遭受校园欺凌的比例上升，但对本地儿童无影响，揭示了政治言论对儿童福祉的负面溢出效应。
There has been a resurgence in populist politics, often accompanied by anti-immigrant rhetoric. This may potentially spill over into societal hostility towards immigrants. We use census data on 5th-grade Italian students to estimate the causal effect of anti-immigration politics on school bullying. Using variations in the timing of municipal elections, we demonstrate that where elections occur and the anti-immigration party Lega Nord is highly active, the victimisation of immigrant children increases, while we find no effect where Lega Nord has little support and for native children, suggesting important negative spillovers from politics to the wellbeing of children.