Long-term migration · Immigration, Attitudes of Natives and Immigrants Assimilation

The aim of this project is to analyse the long-term effects of immigration on attitudes of natives towards immigration, as well as the mechanisms through which immigration may affect natives’ attitudes. Moreover, I plan to study whether attitudes of natives towards migration have long-term economic consequences, particularly on the ability of immigrants to integrate in the natives’ society, by analysing economic outcomes of first and second generation migrants. The identification strategy relies on instrumental variables, combined with machine learning methods for causal inference.