Do People Support Information Campaigns About Inequality?

Sebastian Blesse, Philipp Lergetporer, Clara-Marie Pache and Helen Zeidler

No 12708, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We study beliefs about whether information campaigns can shift public support for redistribution in a survey with more than 3,000 respondents. We randomly provide respondents with evidence from a meta-study about the share of information interventions that do not significantly affect redistributive preferences. This information strongly changes respondents’ beliefs about the effectiveness of such campaigns. Descriptively, respondents who are more skeptical about the effectiveness of information campaigns are also less supportive of disseminating such information. However, we find no causal effect of experimentally shifting these beliefs on support for government provision of inequality-related information to the public, which is generally high. We analyze open-ended responses to study why experimentally shifting beliefs about the effectiveness of information campaigns does not affect support for information dissemination.

Keywords: information campaigns; inequality; information dissemination preferences; survey experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D31 D63 D83 H40 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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