We examine how cultural norms shape attitudes toward immigration. Our causal identification relies on comparing …. Students who moved from East to West became more positive toward immigration. Results are confirmed among students whose move …

worsen crime. In contrast, native opinions on the impact of immigration on culture and the labor market are unrelated to the …

There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the … both dimensions need to be taken into account when assessing the overall climate of public opinion towards immigration … foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on the responses to survey questions on whether …

of the participants with five statistics about immigration, before evaluating their attitude towards immigrants with self …, although it does not change people's policy preferences regarding immigration. Republicans become more willing to increase … legal immigration after receiving the information treatment. Finally, we also measure the same self-reported policy …

This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines data on immigration coverage … and attitudes toward immigration. The analysis focuses on within-individual variations over time, addressing ideological … self-selection into channels. We find that increased coverage of immigration polarizes attitudes, with initially moderate …

elasticity of immigration to public attitudes is higher than the elasticity of immigration to economic factors for EU migrants. …This paper examines the effects of natives' anti-immigration attitudes on migration flows to EU countries. We use panel … EU destinations. Our findings suggest that there is a negative causal relationship between anti-immigration attitudes and …

In September 2010 the anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), crossed the electoral threshold to the Swedish … of the media exposure on fluctuations in opinion polls for political parties; i.e. the media effect. In particular to … media with the results of the SD opinion polls as well as the opinion poll results of all the other parliamentary parties …

Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most … to immigration? This paper reports results from a large-scale experiment conducted in Japan, a country with widespread … anti-immigration sentiment. Embedded in a comprehension study, we randomly exposed a large national sample of citizens to …