Research

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)

View NBER Working Paper

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)

View NBER Working Paper

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)

View CEPR Working Paper

Featured in VoxEU

First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees, Under review

(with Panu Poutvaara and Felicitas Schikora)

View IZA Working Paper

Featured in VoxEU

Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate, Under review

(with Panu Poutvaara and Joop Adema)

View CESifo Working Paper

Featured in Financial Times, Phys, VoxEU

Attitudes and Policies toward Refugees: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

(with Thomas Ginn)

View World Bank Working Paper

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)

View IZA Working Paper

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 Pre-analysis Plan

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)

View CEPR Working Paper

Featured in VoxEU

2021

Refugees’ and Irregular Migrants’ Self-selection into Europe, Journal of Development Economics (2021)

(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 (2021)

(with Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka)

View NBER Working Paper

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)

View SSRN Working Paper

Robots and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Europe, European Economic Review (2021)

(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 (2020)

(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 (2019)

(with Christopher S. Carpenter, Jeff Frank and Matt Huffman)

View IZA Working Paper

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