Publications

2025

• The Global Persistence of Work from Home, Forthcoming, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

(with Jose Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls and Pablo Zarate)

• Corruption Exposure, Political Trust, and Immigrants, Forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics

(with Barry Eichengreen, Anastasia Litina, Cem Özgüzel, and Chan Yu)

View CEPR Working Paper

• Why Does Working from Home Vary Across Countries and People?, Forthcoming, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

(with Jose Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate)

View CEPR Working Paper

• Refugee-Native Education Gap, Forthcoming, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings

(with Gaurav Khanna, Victoria Robinson, and Semih Tumen)

View CEPR Working Paper

2024

• (Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support, Review of Economic Studies

(with Daron Acemoglu, Nicolas Ajzenman, Martin Fiszbein, and Carlos Molina)

View NBER Working Paper

Featured in the New York Times, the Week, VoxDev, VoxEU

• The Political Scar of Epidemics, Economic Journal

(with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka)

View NBER Working Paper | Watch LSE Public Event

Featured in Anadolu Agency, BBC Turkey, Bloomberg, Daily Mail, Euro News, Financial Times, The Telegraph, VoxEU, Washington Post

• Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide, Journal of Politics

(with Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman)

View NBER Working Paper 

Featured in VoxEU, Wall Street Journal

2023

• First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees, Journal of Urban Economics

(with Panu Poutvaara and Felicitas Schikora)

View IZA Working Paper

Featured in VoxEU

• Time Savings When Working from Home, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings

(with Jose Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls and Pablo Zarate)

View Becker Friedman Institute Working Paper

Featured in Bloomberg, Boston.com, Business Insider, El Confidencial, Euronews, Forbes, the Times, VoxEU, WirtschaftsWoche

2022

• Working from Home Around the World, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

(with Jose Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls and Pablo Zarate)

View NBER Working Paper, View IZA Working Paper

Featured in ABC News Australia, Bloomberg, Deutsche Welle, EuroNews, Helsinki Times, Les Affaires, Los Angeles Times, MedyaScope TV, New York Times,  NPR, Observer, Spiegel, the National, the Sydney Morning Herald,7NEWS Australia, VoxEU

• Exposure to Transit Migration: Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Development Economics

(with Nicolas Ajzenman and Sergei Guriev)

View IZA Working Paper

Featured in VoxEU

• Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

(with Christopher Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, Mathias Dolls, and Lisa Windsteiger)

View SSRN Working Paper, View CEPR Working Paper

Featured in VoxEU,  VoxTalks Podcast, the Conversation

View CEPR Working Paper

• Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

(with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka)

View CEPR Working Paper

Featured in VoxEU

2021

• Refugees’ and Irregular Migrants’ Self-selection into Europe, Journal of Development Economics

(with Panu Poutvaara)

View IZA Working Paper 

Featured in Bloomberg, Business Insider, Deutsche Welle, Die Zeit, Reuters, VoxEU

• Revenge of the Experts: Will COVID-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?, Journal of Public Economics

(with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka)

View NBER Working Paper  

Featured in Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, New Zealand Herald, Times Higher Education, VoxEU

• Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration, Journal of Development Economics

(with Semih Tumen)

View SSRN Working Paper

• Robots and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Europe,  European Economic Review

(with Berkay Ozcan and Julia Philipp)

View IZA Working Paper

Featured in The Independent, New Scientist, VoxEU, World Economic Forum

2020

• Do Laws Shape Attitudes? Evidence from Same-sex Relationship Recognition Policies in Europe, European Economic Review 

(with Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, and Kevin Tran)

View CEPR Working Paper

Featured in Psychology Today, VoxEU

2019

• Gay Glass Ceilings: Sexual Orientation and Workplace Authority in the UK, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

(with Christopher S. Carpenter and Jeff Frank)

View IZA Working Paper

Featured in Bloomberg, Quartz, VoxEU, Washington Post, World Economic Forum

2018

• Sexual Orientation and Earnings: New Evidence from the United Kingdom, ILR Review

(with Christopher S. Carpenter and Jeff Frank)

View EBRD Working Paper Version

Featured in Harvard Business Review, Quartz, VoxEU, World Economic Forum

Refereeing

Academic Journals: American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Insights, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Politics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics, Management Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, World Development

Research Grants: British Academy, European Commission, International Growth Centre, the World Bank