Research

Publications

“Politicians, Newspapers, and Immigration Referendums: Exploring the Boundaries of Media Effects.” Political Communication, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2024.2321539.

“When Issue Salience Affects Adjudication: Evidence from Swiss Asylum Appeal Decisions.” American Journal of Political Science, 2023, 67(1), 55-10. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12612

“Politische und ökonomische Auswirkungen von Flüchtlingszuwanderung.” Chapter in Edited Volume on So schaffen wir das – Wie wir das Thema Asyl & Migration dem linken und rechten Rand abnehmen und die Krise überwinden, edited by Othmar Karas and Judith Kohlenberger, Vienna: edition a Verlag, 2023. https://www.edition-a.at/buecher/wissenschaft/172/so-schaffen-wir-das (with Dominik Hangartner and Andreas Steinmayr)

“Immigration and Inequality: The Role of Politics and Policies.“IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, 2023 (with Dominik Hangartner) 

“Managing Refugee Protection Crises: Policy Lessons from Economics and Political Science.” Journal of the Finnish Economic Association, 2021, 2(1), 1-24. https://journal.fi/jfea/article/view/112404 (with Dominik Hangartner and Matti Sarvimäki)

Working Papers

[judicial behavior, asylum]

“Inferring Individual Preferences from Group Decisions: Judicial Preference Variation and Aggregation on Collegial Courts.” Working Paper. (with Dominik Hangartner and Benjamin E. Lauderdale) 

“Do Fewer Judges Reach Different Decisions? Evidence from a Procedural Change in Asylum Appeal Decision Making.” Working Paper.

[education, gender inequality]

“Home Economics and Gender Differences in Household Labor” Working Paper. (with Garret Binding) 

“Introducing HESSS: Home Economics at Swiss Secondary Schools” URPP Discussion Paper Series No. 40, December 2023. (with Anja Grob and Garret Binding)

Ongoing Projects

[exclusionary attitudes, voting behavior]

“Historical Anti-Semitism and Contemporary Exclusionary Attitudes.” (with Elias Dinas)

“Desegregation and Historical Exclusionary Attitudes.” (with Dominik Hangartner and Francisco Tomás-Valiente Jordá)

[judicial procedures]

“Barred Access to Justice: Does Demanding an Advance on Court Costs Reduce the Number of Filed Civil Lawsuits?” (with Andreas Beerli and Lukas Huber)

Policy Papers

[immigration]

“Dealing with the Refugee Crisis: Policy Lessons from Economics and Political Science.” (with Dominik Hangartner and Matti Sarvimäki), Report for Finland’s Economic Policy Council, 2017.