Public attitudes towards migration and social policies

Last registered on November 30, 2022
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
Public attitudes towards migration and social policies
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0010481
Initial registration date
November 28, 2022

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
November 30, 2022, 4:09 PM EST

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Country
Germany
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Gianna Maria Eick
Affiliation
University of Konstanz
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Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2022-11-29
End date
2022-12-16
Keywords
Education, Electoral, Governance, Health, Labor, Welfare
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Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
Using data from an online panel survey in Germany (collected via IPSOS), I study public attitudes towards migration and social policies. First, some of the migrant groups are perceived by the public as more deserving and others are perceived as less deserving. Second, some social policies are in-kind, and some are cash transfers. Third, for attitudes about some policies, I also assign additional treatments, i.e. different characteristics to these groups. The objective is to test heterogeneity in the overall impact of the treatment. I also want to test variations in treatment effects for different groups in Germany (e.g., natives vs migrants, lower educated vs higher educated).
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Registration Citation

Citation
Eick, Gianna Maria. 2022. "Public attitudes towards migration and social policies." AEA RCT Registry. November 30. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.10481-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2022-11-29
Intervention End Date
2022-12-16

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
I ask a series of questions about government spending for different groups and social policies. These groups include two EU migrant groups who should be perceived as more deserving by the public and two refugee groups who should be perceived as less deserving of government spending. In the control condition, I ask the same questions for German citizens.
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Secondary Outcomes

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Experimental Design

Experimental Design
I design four treatment groups plus one control group. I vary the nationality of the recipients for different social policies. The control group are German citizens. For some policies, I assign additional treatments, i.e. different characteristics to these groups.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Online randmonisation
Randomization Unit
Individuals
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
6,000 individuals
Sample size: planned number of observations
6,000 individuals
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
1,200 per treatment arm, per stimuli
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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