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In: Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1026
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In: Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1026
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In: Bank of Italy Occasional Paper No. 337
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In: Economic policy, Band 36, Heft 106, S. 237-286
ISSN: 1468-0327
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The future of an institution, such as the European Union, ultimately depends on people's support. This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies have improved public attitudes towards European integration, both in terms of public opinion and political preferences. We focus on Cohesion Policy funds, whose allocation allows us to single out these effects by means of a regression discontinuity approach. The results show that EU transfers have mitigated the rise of Eurosceptical attitudes and reduced political consensus for anti-EU parties. The effects are homogeneous across different socio-economic groups, including the most disadvantaged ones. The improvement in public support for the EU does not appear to be exclusively a spillover of the positive economic effect of funding; we show evidence suggesting the existence of a 'reciprocity-effect' channel, that is, citizens in recipient regions recognize the beneficial role of the EU as the source of funding.
This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies improved the public attitude toward European integration, both in terms of public opinion and in terms of political preferences. We build a new dataset combining data from the European Social Survey, different data sources for political parties' stances and transfer records from EU institutions. We focus on the regional Cohesion Policy, within which the Convergence Objective program offers a quasi-experimental framework that allows us to single out these effects by means of a regression discontinuity approach. Results show that EU transfers have mitigated the rise of Eurosceptic attitudes and reduced the political consensus for anti-EU parties in long-time recipient regions. We estimate that increasing the regional per capita EU transfers by 1000€ over the 2000-2014 period reduces the share of Eurosceptic individuals by about 8 percentage points and voters' support for anti-EU parties by 10 percentage points. The effects are homogeneous across different socio-economic groups, including the most disadvantaged ones. Other attitudes that are often associated with Euroscepticism (i.e. anti-trade and anti-immigration stances) are not substantially affected by EU regional transfers.
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In: University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 289
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In: Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1126
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In: ECB Occasional Paper No. 2016/178
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