Research
Journal Articles
State Policy and Immigrant Integration, Annual Review of Political Science, 27, July 2024, pp. 25-46. [Supplemental Table 1]
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German-Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis (with Hans-Joachim Voth), American Political Science Review, 117(3), August 2023, pp. 851-870.
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights (with Alvaro Calderon and Marco Tabellini), Review of Economic Studies, 90(1), January 2023, pp. 165-200.
Hate Crime towards Minoritized Groups Increases as They Increase in Sized-Based Rank (with Mina Cikara and Marco Tabellini), Nature Human Behaviour, 6(11), November 2022, pp. 1537-1544.
Changing In-Group Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States (with Marco Tabellini), American Political Science Review, 116(3), August 2022, pp. 968-984. [Extended Online Appendix]
From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration (with Shom Mazumder and Marco Tabellini), Review of Economic Studies, 89(2), March 2022, pp.811-842.
Recognition of Collective Victimhood and Outgroup Prejudice (with Elias Dinas and Alain Schlaepfer), Public Opinion Quarterly, 85(2), Summer 2021, pp.517-538.
Family History and Attitudes toward Outgroups: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis (with Elias Dinas and Alain Schlaepfer), Journal of Politics, 83(2), April 2021, pp.647-661.
Winner of the 2022 Joseph L. Bernd Best JOP Paper Award.
Secular Policies and Muslim Integration in the West: The Effects of the French Headscarf Ban (with Aala Abdelgadir), American Political Science Review, 114(3), August 2020, pp.707-723.
Co-winner of the 2021 Best Article Award of the APSA Migration and Citizenship Section.
Response to Maurin and Navarette (2023).
Agricultural Returns to Labor and the Origins of Work Ethics (with Alain Schlaepfer), Economic Journal, 130(628), May 2020, pp.1081–1113.
Winner of the 2020 Austin Robinson Prize.
Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in US Schools after World War I, Review of Economic Studies, 87(1), January 2020, pp.204-239.
How do Immigrants Respond to Discrimination? The Case of Germans in the US during World War I, American Political Science Review, 113(2), May 2019, pp.405-422.
Book Chapters
Culture and Contemporary Political Preferences (with Marco Tabellini). Prepared for the Handbook of Culture and Economic Behavior.
The Political Economy of Identity in a Globalizing World (with Marco Tabellini). Prepared for the Handbook of Political Economy.
Nation Building and AI (with Bryony Reich). Forthcoming in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Political Economy, edited by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker, University of Chicago Press. [NBER Draft]
Assimilation in Historical Political Economy, in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, edited by Jeffery A. Jenkins and Jared Rubin, August 2022 (online ed.), New York: Oxford University Press.
Language Policies in Education and the Possibility of an Identity Backlash, in Nation-Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures, CEPR E-book, edited by Dominic Rohner and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, February 2023.
Working papers
Confronting the Past? Public Norms, Private Truths, and the Politics of Memory in Post-WWII Germany (with Elias Dinas and Daniel Ziblatt)
Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist Movement (with Valentín Figueroa) [NBER WP]
Industry and Identity: The Migration Linkage between Economic and Cultural Change in 19th Century Britain (with Theo Serlin) [NBER WP]
Hate Crimes and Identity of Young Muslims in Europe (with Aala Abdelgadir)
Culture Clash: Incompatible Reputation Systems and Intergroup Conflict (with Alain Schlaepfer) [NBER WP]
What Works for Immigrant Integration? Lessons from the Americanization Movement
Selected work in progress
Migration and the Making of the English Middle Class (with Theo Serlin)
Nationalist Education at the Country of Origin and Immigrant Assimilation at the Destination (with Karmen Misiou and Harris Mylonas)
Demand for and Effects of Islamic Law on European Muslims: Evidence from Northern Greece (with Vaios Triantafyllou)
Group Survival Strategies: The Case of Sephardic Jews in Interwar Salonica (with Giorgos Antoniou, Elias Dinas and Karmen Misiou)