of redistributive policies are affected by poverty and immigration. We find that while information about poverty has no … detectable impact on the progressivity of the respondents' demanded income tax schedule, information about immigration has a … response to both poverty and immigration, while low income respondents desire less public expenditure on education due to …

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 …