U.S. Public Opinion on Welfare Deservingness and Higher Education, 3,916 Respondents

An original survey of 3,916 representative respondents from the United States investigates how mass higher education influences perceptions of welfare state deservingness. The survey combines a conjoint experiment with an information provision experiment. It was authored by Sebastian Diessner for Public Opinion Quarterly and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze causal relationships between education level and perceived welfare deservingness based on the conjoint experiment.
• Study the role of need-based considerations in welfare attitudes based on the survey's findings.
• Model public opinion on social policy using the representative sample of U.S. respondents.
• Compare experimental treatment effects from the information provision component of the survey.

Strengths

• Survey includes a large, representative sample of 3,916 U.S. respondents.
• Data collection method combines a conjoint experiment with an information provision experiment for causal inference.
• Dataset is associated with a peer-reviewed publication in Public Opinion Quarterly.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Geographic coverage is limited to the United States.

Provenance

Source

Diessner, Sebastian; Public Opinion Quarterly

Collection Method

Original survey combining a conjoint experiment with an information provision experiment.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 21:21:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States