Working Papers
- (Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support, Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
(with Daron Acemoglu, Nicolas Ajzenman, Martin Fiszbein, and Carlos Molina)
Featured in the New York Times, the Week, VoxEU
- Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide, Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Politics
(with Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman)
Featured in VoxEU, Wall Street Journal
- Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity? | Pre-analysis Plan
(with Antonio Cabrales, Mathias Dolls, Ruben Durante, and Lisa Windsteiger)
Featured in VoxEU
- First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees, Under review
(with Panu Poutvaara and Felicitas Schikora)
Featured in VoxEU
- Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate, Under review
(with Panu Poutvaara and Joop Adema)
Featured in Financial Times, Phys, VoxEU
- Attitudes and Policies toward Refugees: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(with Thomas Ginn)
Publications
2023
- Time Savings When Working from Home, Forthcoming, AEA 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, Fortune, the Times, VoxEU, WirtschaftsWoche
- The Political Scar of Epidemics, Conditionally Accepted, the 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
2022
- Working from Home Around the World, Forthcoming, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
(with Jose Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls and Pablo Zarate)
View Slides, View NBER Working Paper, View IZA Working Paper
Featured in ABC News Australia, Becker Friedman Institute, 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 (2022)
(with Nicolas Ajzenman and Sergei Guriev)
Featured in VoxEU
- Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2022)
(with Christopher Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, Mathias Dolls, and Lisa Windsteiger)
View SSRN Working Paper, View CEPR Working Paper
Featured in VoxEU, VoxTalks Podcast, G7, the Conversation
View SSRN Working Paper, View CEPR Working Paper
- Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2022)
(with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka)
Featured in VoxEU
2021
- Refugees’ and Irregular Migrants’ Self-selection into Europe, Journal of Development Economics (2021)
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 (2021)
(with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka)
Featured in Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, New Zealand Herald, Times Higher Education, VoxEU, LSE Business Review, Phys.org, ProMarket
- Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration, Journal of Development Economics (2021)
(with Semih Tumen)
- Robots and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Europe, European Economic Review (2021)
(with Berkay Ozcan and Julia Philipp)
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 (2020)
(with Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, and Kevin Tran)
Featured in Psychology Today, VoxEU
2019
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Gay Glass Ceilings: Sexual Orientation and Workplace Authority in the UK, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2019)
(with Christopher S. Carpenter, Jeff Frank and Matt Huffman)
Featured in Bloomberg, New Zealand Herald, Quartz, VoxEU, Washington Post, World Economic Forum
2018
- Sexual Orientation and Earnings: New Evidence from the United Kingdom, ILR Review (2018)
(with Christopher S. Carpenter and Jeff Frank)
View EBRD Working Paper Version
Featured in Harvard Business Review, IZA World of Labor, LSE Business Review, Quartz, VoxEU, World Economic Forum
Refereeing
Academic Journals: 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, Migration Studies, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, PLOS One, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Public Opinion Quarterly, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, World Development
Research Grants: British Academy, European Commission
Work in Progress
- Institutions Shape Culture: The Civic Imprint of Democracy
(with Daron Acemoglu, Nicolas Ajzenman, Martin Fiszbein, and Carlos Molina)
- The Fertility Effects of Remote Working
(with Jose Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls and Pablo Zarate)
- Attitudes towards Private and Public Debt: Does Language Matter?
(with Mathias Dolls, Justyna Klejdysz, Andreas Peichl, and Lisa Windsteiger)
- Human Capital Effects of Contemporaneous Violent Conflict
(with Gaurav Khanna, Victoria Robinson, and Semih Tumen)
- Trusting Immigrants
Policy Reports
- “War, conflict and migration”, EBRD Transition Report 2022, Chapter, Chapter 2
(with Maxim Chupilkin, Jan Gromadzki, Anina Harter and Piotr Lewandowski)
- “Digital Infrastructure and Firms’ Performance”, EBRD Transition Report 2021, Chapter 2
(with Jonas Hjort, Beata Javorcik, Banu Demir Pakel, Han Wang and Nathaniel Young)
- “Teleworking, AI and the Labour Force”, EBRD Transition Report 2021, Chapter 3
(with Joop Adema and Michelle Brock)
- Fintech and Banks in Transition, EBRD Transition Report 2021, Chapter 4
(with Çağatay Bircan, Ralph De Haas, Victoria Marino and Kirstin Wacker)
- “International Migration”, EBRD Transition Report 2018, Chapter 3
(with J. Michelle Brock, Francesca Dalla Pozza and Panu Poutvaara)
- “Skills, Employment and Automation”, EBRD Transition Report 2018, Chapter 2
(with Yvonne Giesing, Nadzeya Laurentsyeva and Elisa Wirsching)
- “Life Satisfaction in the Transition Region”, EBRD Transition Report 2016, Chapter 1
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- “Governance in the Transition Region”, EBRD Transition Report 2016, Chapter 2
- “Gender in the Transition Region”, EBRD Transition Report 2016, Chapter 3