Contact versus Exposure: Refugee Presence and Voting for the Far Right

I thank the editor, Asim I. Khwajam, and three anonymous referees for helpful comments that significantly improved the paper. I thank George Borjas, Davide Cantoni, Christian Dustmann, Christina Felfe, Dominik Hangartner, Magne Mogstad, Gerard Padró-i-Miquel, Sulin Sardoschau, Jörg Spenkuch, Joachim Winter, and seminar participants at various universities and conferences for helpful discussions. Toman Barsbai, Benjamin Elsner, Matthias Firgo, Jeffrey Grogger, Navid Sabet, Christoph Trebesch, Martin Watzinger, Christoph Winter, and Josef Zweimüller provided helpful comments on the draft. I thank Jakob Weichenberger and Roman Knapp for providing the data on the distribution of asylum seekers and the Austrian Press Agency for access to their media database. Pavel Obraztcov, Emre Oral, Daniel Raczek, and Valentina Stöhr provided excellent research assistance. All errors are my own. Earlier versions of this paper were titled “Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far Right: (Unexpected) Results from Austria” and “Contact Matters: Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far Right.”

A supplemental appendix is available online at https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00922.