Happy late 40th to me

Results? Narratives generally move the needle more than factual info, but the opposite holds for pacific migration. 3/4

We ran a five arm RCT. Alyssa very thoughtfully designed the four treatments, horseracing positive, negative, and neutral narrative information on an issue against a broader treatment of factual quant information 2/4

You’re right though, we don’t emphasise this in the paper, but testing for different effects of the experiment based on these characteristics it’s reported, eg here

Excited to share our new paper out today, with Alyssa Leng (her master’s thesis!) and Terence Wood: “Narratives, information and immigration
policy preferences”.

I’m a bit biased, but I think it’s both interesting and pretty damn important

devpolicy.org/publications...

Don’t worry, you will also get Australia is great—Canberra in particular—content here too

We're very grateful to the Minister for Immigration for his kind words about our work on the Pacific and migration at the Development Policy Centre.

I couldn't be more proud to lead the ANU's Pacific migration research, we have a great (but small) team.

minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/AndrewGiles/...

Put together a simple economic defense of a robust, growing immigration program with Steve for the papers

Australia doesn’t need to keep thinking, being small

https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/look-at-the-evidence-cutting-immigration-would-be-a-mistake-for-australia-20231030-p5eg5l.html