Replication Data for: The Fiscal Impact of Immigration: Labor Displacement, Wages, and the Allocation of Public Spending

This dataset provides the replication files for the paper "The Fiscal Impact of Immigration: Labor Displacement, Wages, and the Allocation of Public Spending" by Andrés Castaño Zuluaga and Carlos A. Mesa-Guerra. The paper examines the fiscal impact of Venezuelan immigration to Colombia between 2013 and 2018, focusing on second-order effects such as labor market outcomes (employment, wages, hours worked), property values, and the allocation of public spending. Using an instrumental variables strategy, the study exploits exogenous variation in immigrant inflows across Colombian metropolitan areas, leveraging pre-existing settlement patterns (2005 Census) and origin-destination distance-based instruments.