Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences
Experimental Evidence From Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6246740 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ana Isabel López García (0000-0002-8294-363X, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands), Sarah Beren (0000-0001-5188-3569, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, corresponding author), Barry Maydom (0000-0003-0821-2019, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1902-1933 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4140 • E-ISSN: 1552-3829 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00104140231204235 |
| OpenAlex | W4387454650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 53 |
How does emigration affect tax preferences in migrant-sending countries? Experiencing public services in a high tax-capacity destination may reduce support for tax increases by throwing fiscal failure at home into stark relief (the socialization hypothesis). Alternatively, migrants’ exclusion from certain public services may increase desire to fund these services in migrant origin countries (the exclusion hypothesis). We test these competing hypotheses with an online survey experiment in Mexico and explore variation in US healthcare access on fiscal policy preferences of migrant households. Migrant households, especially those with returned migrant members, are more supportive of taxation when tax revenue is earmarked for healthcare, a service to which many Mexican immigrants in the US lack access. It is migrants’ exclusion from, rather than their socialization into, the fiscal contract in destination countries that influences fiscal policy preferences in their countries of origin
Affect (linguistics · Business · Demographic economics · Economics · Emigration · Fiscal policy · Immigration · Labour economics · Monetary economics · Political science · Public economics · Revenue · Socialization · Tax revenue · Finance · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Taxation and Compliance Studies
Inside the Refrigerator
Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments
Why do people pay taxes?
Policies of Exclusion
Trust to Pay? Tax Morale and Trust in Africa
Outsourcing Welfare
Self-Selection and International Migration
The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy
Of Rule and Revenue
Financial remittances, trans-border conversations, and the state
The Generalizability of Survey Experiments
Building support for taxation in developing countries
Going Where the Money Is
Network effects and the dynamics of migration and inequality
The Use of Remittance Income in Mexico
Social Remittances
Unauthorized Mexican-Born Immigrants, Occupational Injuries, and the use of Medical Services in the United States
Does International Migration Affect Political Participation? Evidence from Multiple Data Sources across Mexican Municipalities, 1990–2013
Undocumented and Unwell
Impact of Arizona’s SB 1070 Immigration Law on Utilization of Health Care and Public Assistance Among Mexican-Origin Adolescent Mothers and Their Mother Figures
Return Migration to Mexico
Tax morale in Latin America
Migrant Remittances and Demand for Redistribution
Evolution of the Mexico-U.S. Migration System
Talk Without Borders
Remittances and Revenue in Latin America, 1990–2017
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America
The Political Resocialization of Immigrants
Is a Worried Citizen a Good Citizen? Emotions, Political Information Seeking, and Learning via the Internet
Taxing Higher Incomes
Direct and Indirect Xenophobic Attacks
The Militarization of Law Enforcement
Opting Out of the Social Contract
Shaping Politics at Home
Misperceptions About Perceptual Bias
Democracy Andtaxation
Immigration Attitudes and Support for the Welfare State in the American Mass Public
Boundaries of Solidarity
Online Surveys in Latin America
A Bayesian analysis of attribution processes
Two centuries of flows between 'here' and 'there
On the formation of content for 'political remittances
Anxiety, Enthusiasm, and the Vote
Remittances and Social Spending
Opting for Exit
Building the Modern State in Developing Countries
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |