Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/225514 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 699
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
We analyze whether (correct) information provision on immigration is more effective than contact in shaping attitudes towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome. Half of the classes meet a refugee from Mauritania, whereas the rest of them attend a lecture on figures and numbers on immigration in Italy and the world. On average, students develop better attitudes towards immigration (especially in the case of policy preferences and the perceived number of immigrants in their country) after the information treatment more than they do after the contact treatment, whereas neither treatment affects feelings associated to immigrants. Also, students having received the information treatment strongly adjust their knowledge on immigration. However, students' individual characteristics and school type (i.e. middle vs. high school) affect treatments' effectiveness.
Subjects: 
Attitudes towards immigration
Information Provision
Contact Theory
Randomized Experiment
JEL: 
C93
J15
Z1
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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