Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282473 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10785
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Using a new survey and experimental data, we investigate how information on inequality and immigration affects preferences for redistribution in Italy. Our randomized treatments show that preferences for redistribution are generally inelastic to information. However, we find that provision of information on poverty statistics related to the native-immigrant composition of poverty reduces economic in-group bias by affecting exclusionary redistributive preferences. Respondents are less likely to support policies that exclude immigrants from access to the welfare state once they learn that immigrants are less represented among the poor and natives are not as poor as believed. We also find evidence of cultural in-group bias by investigating heterogeneous treatment effects on policy preferences across socio-demographic groups.
Subjects: 
inequality
immigration redistribution
perception
survey experiment
JEL: 
D91
D72
H23
H24
C83
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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