Information Campaigns and Migration Perceptions

Erminia Florio

No 564, CEIS Research Paper from Tor Vergata University, CEIS

Abstract: The research studies the effect of information campaigns on migration on perceptions and intentions to migrate among high school students in Dakar, Senegal. Through a randomized experiment, I analyze the role of expectations, migration perceptions, and intention to migrate and assess if (and, if so, which) actors and information content are effective the most in shaping students’ migration intention and perceptions. I find that students display a high level of distrust in domestic labor markets, and the information treatment with an external expert reduces the misperceptions on some measures of labor market statistics but has no effect on the perception of the illegal journey. In addition, narratives reduce the willingness to migrate illegally, but none of the treatments has impacts on the intention to migrate. The effect of narratives is stronger for students with close family members abroad.

Keywords: Migration intentions; information provision; expectations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 F22 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2023-07-31, Revised 2023-07-31
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-mig and nep-ure
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