Corruption Exposure, Political Trust, and Immigrants: A New Study Using Our ICRG Data

Scholars and politicians have expressed concern that immigrants from countries with low levels of political trust transfer those attitudes to their destination countries.  

Using our ICRG data and large-scale survey data covering 38 countries and exploiting origin-country variation across different cohorts and survey rounds, in this new study by Professor Barry Eichengreen, et al., found that, to the contrary, immigrants more exposed to institutional corruption before migrating exhibit higher levels of political trust in their new country.

There’s lots in this piece and one that should generate considerable discussion. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep69752?searchText=ICRG&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DICRG%26so%3Dnew&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A3b1e9d155ba8687564ae36a4485acb10&seq=1)

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