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Replication Data for: Political Shock and International Students: Estimating the "Trump Effect"

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Title Replication Data for: Political Shock and International Students: Estimating the "Trump Effect"
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/74ZPM9
 
Creator Song, Mingsi
Li, Quan
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The negative “Trump Effect” on international students has attracted wide media
and scholarly attention. Surprisingly, the best existing evidence remains anecdotal and
case-based. In this research note, we fill this important gap. We employ a difference-in-
difference (DID) design to estimate the Trump effect for the U.S. vis-a-vis various
control groups: top 5, top 10, top 20, and all other countries that compete with the U.S.
We find a statistically significant and negative Trump effect that drives international
students from the U.S. to competing destinations. Relative to the top five competitors,
about 12% fewer students came to the U.S. during the first three years of the Trump
Presidency. The average treatment effect is statistically significant across the top 5,
top 10, and top 20 destination groups but not for the group of all other destinations as
a whole. Pairwise DID estimates between the U.S. and 91 individual countries further
indicate that the Trump effect is primarily driven by 26 host nations. Our research
contributes to our understanding of Trump effects, student flows, and migration.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Song, Mingsi