Replication Data for: Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile?doi:10.7910/DVN/XGVQDTHarvard Dataverse2018-11-011Hangartner, Dominik; Dinas, Elias; Marbach, Moritz; Matakos, Konstantinos; Xefteris, Dimitiros, 2018, "Replication Data for: Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XGVQDT, Harvard Dataverse, V1Replication Data for: Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile?doi:10.7910/DVN/XGVQDTHangartner, DominikDinas, EliasMarbach, MoritzMatakos, KonstantinosXefteris, DimitirosHarvard DataverseHangartner, DominikMarbach, MoritzHangartner, Dominik2018-11-01Social SciencesImmigrationAlthough Europe has experienced unprecedented numbers of refugee arrivals in recent years, there exists almost no causal evidence regarding the impact of the refugee crisis on natives' attitudes, policy preferences, and political engagement. We exploit a natural experiment in the Aegean Sea, where Greek islands close to the Turkish coast experienced a sudden and massive increase in refugee arrivals while similar islands slightly farther away did not. Leveraging a targeted survey of 2,070 islands residents and distance to Turkey as an instrument, we find that direct exposure to refugee arrivals induces sizeable and lasting increases in natives' hostility toward refugee, immigrant and Muslim minorities; support for restrictive asylum and immigration policies; and political engagement to effect such exclusionary policies. Since refugees only passed through these islands, our findings challenge both standard economic and cultural explanations of anti-immigrant sentiment, and show that mere exposure suffices in generating lasting increases in hostility.<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>Hangartner, Dominik, Elias Dinas, Moritz Marbach, Konstantinos Matakos, and Dimitrios Xefteris. "Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile?" American Political Science Review (forthcoming).Hangartner, Dominik, Elias Dinas, Moritz Marbach, Konstantinos Matakos, and Dimitrios Xefteris. "Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile?" American Political Science Review (forthcoming).materials.tar.gzComplete replication archive with codebook, instructions, data and code files (unzip to preserve folder structure).application/x-gzip