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

近年来，欧洲经历了大量的难民涌入。尽管当地人对难民的态度决定了庇护政策的政治可行性，但对于这些态度如何通过有关难民特征的信息形成的信息知之甚少。我们对德国4000多名成年人的代表性样本进行了一项调查实验，我们在其中随机提供了有关难民教育水平的信息。信息的提供极大地增强了受访者对难民受过良好教育的信念。这些信息还增加了对劳动力市场竞争的担忧，减少了财政负担的担忧，并积极影响了对难民的一般态度。我们在超过5,000名大学生的附加实验中进行了几种鲁棒性分析。总共，