natives and migrants in eastern Germany, a region characterized by anti-immigrant sentiment. Using probability-based survey …. Respondents who receive the signal show more supportive attitudes toward immigration, with effect sizes being more pronounced for … information campaigns on immigration. …

We conduct a survey experiment on the effect of information provision on attitudes towards immigration in Germany. The … focus lies on two theory-based economic channels, labor market and welfare state concerns, and immigration policy … robustly decreases welfare state concerns about immigration. There are slightly less pronounced effects on the labor market and …

about adverse effects of immigration on the welfare state. On the contrary, different types of signals offset their effects … heterogeneity, we find that prior beliefs about immigration explain conditional average treatment effects. While attitudinal change …

There has been great interest in the relationship between immigration and the welfare state in recent years, and … in the U.S. welfare state, and anti-immigrant sentiments, many contend that immigration undermines public support for … social policy. This study analyzes three measures of immigration and six welfare attitudes using 1996 and 2006 International …