Research
Journal Articles
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
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
State Policy and Immigrant Integration, forthcoming in Annual Review of Political Science [Supplemental Table 1]
Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist Movement (with Valentín Figueroa) [NBER Working paper]
Industry and Identity: The Migration Linkage between Economic and Cultural Change in 19th Century Britain (with Theo Serlin)
Culture Clash: Incompatible Reputation Systems and Intergroup Conflict (with Alain Schlaepfer) [NBER Working paper]
What Works for Immigrant Integration? Lessons from the Americanization Movement
Selected work in progress
Nationalist Education at the Country of Origin and Immigrant Assimilation at the Destination (with Harris Mylonas)
Perceived Discrimination and Adolescent Muslim Integration (with Aala Abdelgadir)
Reputation and Variation in Institutional Quality (with Alain Schlaepfer)
Assimilation Policies and Integration Outcomes in Danish Vulnerable Neighborhoods (with Mathilde Emeriau, Nicholas Haas and Emmy Lindstam)
The Rise and Fall of National Stigmas: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany (with Elias Dinas and Daniel Ziblatt)
Group Survival Strategies: The Case of Sephardic Jews in Interwar Salonica (with Giorgos Antoniou, Elias Dinas and Karmen Misiou)