Individual differences and preferences for immigration

Tuesday, June 25, 2013
C2.17 (Oudemanhuispoort)
Peter Loewen , Political Science, University of Toronto -- Mississauga
Chris Dawes , Politics, New York University
Raymond Duch , Nuffield College, University of Oxford
We report results from laboratory and online experiments in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Our experiments recover individual differences in basic preferences for fairness, altruism, trust, and redistribution. We demonstrate that these differences systematically underwrite differences in preferences for immigration.