Record Details

Replication Data for: Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Mexico.

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Replication Data for: Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Mexico.
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BYAVMC
 
Creator Lopez Garcia, Ana Isabel
Berens, Sarah
Maydom, Barry
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description How does emigration affect tax preferences in migrant-sending countries? Experiencing public services in a high tax-capacity destination may reduce support for tax increases by throwing fiscal failure at home into stark relief (the socialization hypothesis). Alternatively, migrants’ exclusion from certain public services may increase desire to fund these services in migrant origin countries (the exclusion hypothesis). We test these competing hypotheses with an online survey experiment in Mexico and explore how variation in US healthcare access influences the fiscal policy preferences of migrant households. Especially returning migrant households are more supportive of taxation when tax revenue is earmarked for healthcare, a service to which many Mexican immigrants in the US lack access. It is migrants’ exclusion from, rather than their socialization into, the fiscal contract in destination countries that influences fiscal policy preferences in their countries of origin.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Date 2023-08-26
 
Contributor Lopez Garcia, Ana Isabel