Immigrants' Personalities Strongly Affect Natives' Immigrant Preferences in the UK

• In Event: Explaining Support for Immigration

Brief Overview

We experimentally test the impact of immigrants’ personality on natives’ attitudes. We find that immigrants’ personalities signaling a greater willingness to i) integrate culturally and those that signal ii) greater economic potential, are preferred.

Authors

• Nico Buettner, University of Oxford

• James Tilley, University of Oxford

• Sara Binzer Hobolt, London School of Economics and Political Science