Interesting vibes in the announcement of the new German coalition. Future Chancellor Merz announces more deportations, an end to resettlement and family reunification for refugees, and to fast track nationalization. The socio democrats' leader starts reassuring citizens with migrant background.

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Decisive step for the most important asylum reform in the EU of the past decade

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Die wichtigste europäische Reform des Asylsystems des letzten Jahrzehnts macht entscheidenden Schritt im Europäischen Parlament!

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We can thus compare survey responses before and after the announcement of a World Bank aid project and interpret the change as causal. We find that World Bank aid reduces migration aspirations significantly by about 8 % (1.9 pp) for a few days. In part, driven by more positively future outlooks.

The idea behind the root causes strategy is simple: improve conditions for people in their origin countries and they will have less reason to migrate. But is that how it works? And what are the mechanisms? To check, we use geo-referenced World Bank aid data & the Gallup World Poll (>1M individuals).