Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300184 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1490
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper examines the electoral impact of increased foreign tourism, using data from Croatia. Exploiting exogenous variation in travel times to coastal municipalities from improved road infrastructure, I show that foreign tourism reduces nationalist voting and increases the center-left vote share. This effect is partly due to manufacturing spillovers and demographic shifts within municipalities. Further complementing these findings, individual-level survey data indicates that workers within the hospitality sector are more likely to hold left-wing views. I further show that this is likely driven by economic concerns, rather than the diffusion of socially liberal views.
Subjects: 
Infrastructure
Tourism
Voting
Nationalism
JEL: 
D72
F63
L83
O18
Z32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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