Does the education level of refugees affect natives’ attitudes?

In recent years, Europe has experienced a large influx of refugees. While natives’ attitudes toward refugees are decisive for the political feasibility asylum policies, little is known about how these shaped by information refugees’ characteristics. We conducted survey experiment with representative sample more than 4,000 adults in Germany which we randomly provide education level. Information provision strongly increases respondents’ beliefs that well educated. The also labor market competition concerns, decreases fiscal burden and positively affects general perform several robustness analyses additional experiments 5,000 university students. sum, show correcting misperceptions level profound effects on attitudes.