What do Americans think about immigrants? We analyzed responses to nine attributes in a conjoint experiment.
Educated, employed and Iraqi-born individuals are viewed more favorably.
Preferences remain consistent across education level, partisanship and other factors.
This finding suggests broad agreement on immigration policy exists beneath surface-level partisan divisions. The results support norms-based and sociotropic theories while challenging arguments about economic and cultural threats.
| The Hidden American Immigration Consensus: A Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes Toward Immigrants was authored by Jens Hainmueller and Daniel J. Hopkins. It was published by Wiley in AJPS in 2015. |
