Replication Data for: Globalization, Internal Migration, and Public Goods Provision in Emerging Economies

10.7910/DVN/E0BJIZ Helms, Benjamin Benjamin Helms Texas A&M University Lim, Junghyun Junghyun Lim University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Replication Data for: Globalization, Internal Migration, and Public Goods Provision in Emerging Economies Harvard Dataverse 2025 Social Sciences Globalization Internal migration Public goods Benjamin Helms Benjamin Helms Texas A&M University Benjamin Helms Benjamin Helms Texas A&M University 2025-06-06 2025-08-29 8212 25359657 4854265 437418 35646397 310443 318956 1418734 354297 148194 11080 21090 32569 28697 7039 text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values application/pdf type/x-r-syntax type/x-r-syntax type/x-r-syntax type/x-r-syntax text/plain 1.0 Custom terms specific to this dataset Globalization can introduce new employment opportunities to emerging economies in multinational corporations and exporting firms. Who is best positioned to benefit, and what are the political consequences for ``left behind" areas? We argue that primarily advantaged groups seize these opportunities through internal migration toward centers of global production - a costly activity not everyone can undertake. This selective out-migration creates demographic shifts in left-behind areas, weakening public goods provision. We test our argument in India, first documenting selective internal migration of advantaged groups. We then leverage the Indian IT export boom and explore its consequences for public goods provision. We find that the IT boom increased migration toward centers of production and away from left-behind localities. We also find that public goods provision was relatively weaker in unexposed localities, especially geographically distant ones. We identify migration as a mechanism through which globalization drives political change even in unexposed areas. This dataset underwent an independent verification process, complying with the AJPS Verification Policy updated June 2023, which replicated the tables and figures in the primary article. For the supplementary materials, verification was performed solely for the successful execution of the code. The verification process was carried out by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences at Cornell University. The associated article has been awarded the Open Materials Badge. Learn more about the Open Practice Badges from the <a href="https://www.cos.io/">Center for Open Science</a>. <img src="https://socialsciences.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2024-04/materials_large_color.png" alt="Open Materials Badge " width="60" height="60"> Open Materials Badge