Pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments
研究新冠疫情带来的困境如何影响反移民情绪，通过随机提供经济或健康后果信息，发现悲观经济信息会增强反移民态度，尤其在移民人口较少的地区。
Abstract We investigate the causal nexus between pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments. We exploit the disruption brought about by the Covid‐19 outbreak to randomly provide survey respondents with information on the economic or health consequences of the pandemic. Overall, we find that pessimistic information about the economic outlook reinforces overall adversity to immigration and the wish to exclude immigrants from access to healthcare. This effect is less pronounced in areas with larger immigrant populations. Our theoretical model pins down two possible mechanisms explaining these results: a zero‐sum game to split scarce public resources between residents and immigrants on the one hand, and on the other, fear of contagion.