 Tackling misperceptions about immigrants with fact-checking interventions: A randomized survey experimentSyngjoo Choi, Chung-Yoon Choi and Seonghoon Kim Labour Economics, 2023, vol. 84, issue C Abstract: We conduct a randomized online survey experiment to study the impact of fact-checking offers and financial incentives on misperceptions about immigrants. We find that natives overestimate the number of immigrants and the social and economic costs of immigration. Offering a free check of the factual information about immigrants reduces these misperceptions; it becomes more effective when combined with financial incentives. However, more than half of the participants never took up offers to check factual information. Using a model of information search with limited attention, we identify the presence of non-negligible costs of information search and processing, which limits the effectiveness of the fact-checking interventions. Finally, we find that the fact-checking interventions moderately improve natives’ attitudes toward immigrants but affect neither their policy preferences nor giving behavior toward immigrants. Keywords: Misperceptions; Immigrants; Incentives; Information; Policy preferences; Online experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:labeco:v:84:y:2023:i:c:s0927537123001033 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102428 Access Statistics for this article Labour Economics is currently edited by A. Ichino More articles in Labour Economics from Elsevier |
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