Replication Data for: "Attribution and Migration: A Survey Experiment"

This article investigates how blame attribution impacts attitudes towards asylum seekers. Specifically, it assesses people’s attitudes toward migrants fleeing anthropogenic environmental crises and examines if attributing blame to one’s own country for such crises can alter these attitudes. The article uses data from a pre-registered and well-powered survey experiment run on a quota-representative sample of 1,527 Dutch respondents. Evidence from the experiment suggests that environmental disasters caused by the Netherlands spur Dutch respondents to favor migrants fleeing that disaster whereas that effect is not present when an EU entity is responsible. The identified effects are statistically significant but rather small in magnitude.