Are attitudes towards immigration in the selected countries

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COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT - PROJECT

Two pieces of work should be submitted:

1. A coursework front page (see details below) and coursework report as a single PDF document with your answers to all questions (clearly mark the question number and structure your answers into paragraphs.) and

2. A STATA do file reproducing all your results (data cleaning included) and with appropriate explanations (it is best practice in programming to add a line of explanation before the STATA commands on the do-file so that you and other users can understand your program code)

TEAM'S TASK -

Suppose your team is employed as a consultant for the DG Research & Innovation of the European Union. You are asked to present a concise study on the attitudes towards immigration in selected countries. Your work will support the targeting of beneficiaries of initiatives against xenophobia.

Answer the following questions using Rounds 1 to 7 of the European Social Survey. Data and questionnaires and a link to the European Social Survey website are provided on KEATS.

Q1. Have attitudes towards immigration in Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden and Poland and a country of your choice changed over time (from 2002 to 2014)?

Explain the choice of your indicator(s) of attitude towards immigration and any manipulation you may have made on the data (e.g. how you create an attitudinal index, or adjust for missing values or data errors). Create an appropriate graph (or graphs) that illustrates the patterns of attitudes in each of the selected countries over time and describe the graph(s). You do not need to use population weights. Maximum of 5 paragraphs.

Q2. Are attitudes towards immigration in the selected countries significantly different from each other? Have gaps widened or shrank?

Use appropriate summary statistics and hypothesis testing procedures to answer the question. Create a table which is easy to read, summarises the tests, and comment on your findings. Maximum 2 paragraphs.

Q3. The EU would like to invest money in promoting attitudinal change in the context of immigration. Which demographic groups exhibit the most xenophobic attitudes and therefore should be targeted by the EU?

Using the ESS data on the selected countries, create a regression model that explains attitudes towards immigration as a function of relevant individual and country characteristics. You can do regression by country or pool the data (you may need to adjust the model accordingly). Explain your choice of variables and carry out diagnostics tests in order to select your 'best' specifications. Present the most useful regression results in a table that follows economic journal standards and comment on the results. Maximum of 5 paragraphs.

Q4. Study sources of attitude heterogeneity: e.g. do women respondents in the UK have different attitudes towards immigration than women respondents in the country of your choice? Does education moderate the effect of age on attitudes?

Study at least the two suggested sources of heterogeneity and show the analysis in a table. Maximum of 4 paragraphs.

Q5. What are the problems one should address to draw causal inference from this analysis? Are there any other limitation in your analysis and how would you address them?

Maximum of 3 paragraphs.

Q6. Bonus question (optional): Consider immigration attitudes within the EU at the country level over time. Do you observe any correlation with country-level characteristics, like GDP, share of immigrant population?

It requires to collapse the data into a country-year dataset and merge it with demographic and/or economic information. Hint: check the Eurostat dataset. Maximum 2 paragraphs.

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Reference no: EM132254826

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3/12/2019 9:44:26 PM

Instructions: Please note that the file is zipped. after unzipping, there will be 2 sub-folders. data sets and survey questions. then within each there are 7 data sets, and 7 survey questions. each from year 2002 until 2014( in incriminates of 2). below are the questions i have selected from each survey. please also follow instructions exactly as per document i sent. Please submit the questions via email. Questions will be collected and answered on KEATS and will be available to everyone. In order to treat everyone equitably, I will not be able to discuss specific assignment answers.

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3/12/2019 9:44:19 PM

The group’ leader is responsible for the final submission on behalf of the group and communicate the markers’ feedback to the group. If the group’s leader cannot submit, he or she must arrange who else from the group members will submit on behalf of the group. There is no exception to the deadline. There are no group mitigating circumstances. The group is a team: if a group member is ill, the rest of the group should help him/her and do the work that needs to be done.

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3/12/2019 9:44:14 PM

The single PDF document must include: A front page with: i) the nickname of the group as it appears on the online spreadsheet on KEATS; ii) the student numbers of your team members and iii) your coursework assignment identifier (project’s letter). The group leader’s student number must be listed first. A coursework report with your answers to all questions. Answers to each question must be clearly numbered. Use a paragraph structure. The report and layout (including tables and graphs) should be of the quality you would be confident to present to the Director of the DG Research & Innovation of the European Union. The final report must be named with the group’s nickname and the coursework’s letter identifier: e.g. “Stellargroup_ProjectA.pdf”. A complete reference list including all references used in the text. Use the Harvard style, also known as the Author-Date system, e.g. “as suggested by the theory of relativity developed in Einstein (1916).” You may want to use the academic literature database EconLit.

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