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Abstract
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Using data from an incentivised online survey with nationally representative Italians, we study natives’ attitudes towards refugees, some sharing a common European identity and some not sharing it, being from outside Europe. The project has three objectives. First, we plan to test if priming the refugee status of populations with different cultural and racial distances from Italians (Ukrainians versus Syrians), affects the attitudes towards the specific primed group. Second, we plan to test if the arrival of a new group of refugees, who share the European identity and are culturally closer to Italians, changes how previous groups of refugees, who are culturally more distant (i.e. Syrians), are perceived and identified. Third, we aim to test if identity concerns and different attitudes towards the groups of refugees affect the trust towards the specific group of refugees. We measure attitudes through real donations in favor of the different groups of refugees, and we proxy the degree of trust towards the groups through a choice over the composition of the donation, between in-kind and cash transfers.
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Using data from an incentivised online survey with nationally representative Italians, we study natives’ attitudes towards refugees, some sharing a common European identity and some not sharing it, being from outside Europe. The project has three objectives. First, we aim to test if the way the asylum seekers are managed and relocated between the different European countries, affects the attitude towards refugees. To this aim, we prime a reform of the EU refugee legislative framework, which sets more equal allocation rules among member states. Second, we aim to test if the way respondents react to the prime depends on the nationality of the refugees. We vary the cultural/ racial distances of the refugees compared to natives. Third, we test if identity concerns affect the level of trust in refugees of different nationalities. We measure attitudes through real donations in favor of the different groups of refugees, and we proxy the degree of trust towards the groups through a choice over the composition of the donation, between in-kind and cash transfers.
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Last Published
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July 26, 2022 01:36 PM
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November 02, 2022 12:25 PM
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Intervention Start Date
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August 01, 2022
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November 20, 2022
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Intervention End Date
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September 30, 2022
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December 31, 2022
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Primary Outcomes (End Points)
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We will collect donations in favor of two distinct groups of refugees hosted in Italy. One group comprises Ukrainian refugees, who should be perceived close in terms of (European) identity. The other group comprises Syrian refugees, who are likely to be perceived as distant from Europeans in terms of culture and religion. We will also collect information of the composition of the donation, between in-kind and cash transfers.
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We will collect donations in favor of two distinct groups of refugees hosted in Italy. One group comprises Ukrainian refugees, who should be perceived close in terms of (European) identity. The other group comprises African refugees, who are likely to be perceived as distant from Europeans in terms of culture and religion. In the control condition, we collect donation in favour of natives victims of violence. We will also collect information of the composition of the donation, between in-kind and cash transfers.
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Experimental Design (Public)
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We design four treatments plus a control group. We vary the nationality of the victims of violence primed in the treatments, and the beneficiaries of the donation. We use as control condition Italian women victim of violence (T0). The first treatment (T1) recalls the Ukraine situation and asks respondents to donate in favor of Ukraine female refugees hosted outside Ukraine. The second treatment (T2) recalls the Syrian situation and asks respondents to donate in favor of Syrian female refugees hosted outside Syria. The third treatment (T3) recalls some general information about refugees of all nationalities and asks respondents to donate in favor of Ukrainian women refugees hosted outside Ukraine. The fourth treatment (T4) recalls some general information about refugees of all nationalities and asks respondents to donate in favor of Syrian women refugees hosted outside Syria.
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We design four treatments plus a control group. We vary the nationality of the victims of violence primed in the treatments (and therefore the beneficiaries of the donation), and whether respondents are assigned to read a text on a reform of the EU refugee legislative framework, which sets more equal allocation rules among member states. In the control condition (T0), we recall that Italian citizens can be victims of violence and deprivation and ask to donate in favor of them. The first treatment (T1) recalls that many Ukrainians are victims of violence and asks respondents to donate in favor of Ukraine refugees hosted outside Ukraine. The second treatment (T2) is identical to treatment T1 but also primes a possible reform of the EU legislative framework that employs burden-sharing rules rather than the first-country-of-entry’ rule. The third treatment (T3) recalls that many Africans are victims of violence and asks respondents to donate in favor of African refugees hosted in Italy. The fourth treatment (T4) is identical to treatment T3 but also primes the reform of the EU legislative framework.
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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1250 in the control condition (T0); 1250 in T1 and T2; 625 in T3 and T4
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1'000 in each condition.
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