JUE Insight: Immigrants, social transfers for education, and spatial interactions
利用新欧盟成员国移民增加，检验意大利各市在教育社会转移支付分配上是否存在策略性互动，发现邻近市之间存在模仿行为，且受市长连任可能性、选举年、低收入家庭比例及社会资本水平影响。
This paper exploits the increase in immigrants from new European member states to test for the presence of strategic interactions in the municipal allocation of social transfers targeted at education services. The results of this analysis, conducted on all Italian municipalities over the 2003–2015 period, point to the presence of spatial interactions between neighbouring municipalities and indicate that this mimicking is more pronounced in municipalities guided by mayors who can be re-elected, in electoral years compared to other years of the term, in municipalities where a higher share of low-income households live, and in municipalities characterized by low levels of social and civic capital.