TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blesse, Sebastian
AU  - Lergetporer, Philipp
AU  - Pache, Clara-Marie
AU  - Zeidler, Helen
        TI  - Do People Support Information Campaigns about Inequality?
        PY  - 2026/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18694
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18694
        AB  - We study beliefs about whether information campaigns can shift public support for redistribution in a survey with more than 3,000 respondents. We randomly provide respondents with evidence from a meta-study about the share of information interventions that do not significantly affect redistributive preferences. This information strongly changes respondents’
beliefs about the effectiveness of such campaigns. Descriptively, respondents who are more skeptical about the effectiveness of information campaigns are also less supportive of disseminating such information. However, we find no causal effect of experimentally shifting these beliefs on support for government provision of inequality-related information to the
public, which is generally high. We analyze open-ended responses to study why experimentally shifting beliefs about the effectiveness of information campaigns does not affect support for information dissemination.
        KW  - information campaigns
KW  - inequality
KW  - information dissemination preferences
KW  - survey experiment
        ER  -