The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education

Simone Schüller

No 7052, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting exogenous variation in interview timing throughout 2001, I find that the terror attacks in the US caused an immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulting in a considerable decrease in concerns over xenophobic hostility among the German population. Furthermore, in exploiting within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education in moderating the negative terrorism shock.

Keywords: immigration; attitudes; education; September 11; terrorism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I21 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2012-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Kyklos , 2016, 69 (4), 604–632.

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