Research
Publications
“When Issue Salience Affects Adjudication: Evidence from Swiss Asylum Appeal Decisions.” (forthcoming) American Journal of Political Science. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12612
Working Papers
[judicial behavior, asylum]
“Inferring Individual Preferences from Group Decisions: Judicial Preference Variation and Aggregation on Collegial Courts.” (with Dominik Hangartner and Benjamin E. Lauderdale) Working Paper.
“Do Fewer Judges Reach Different Decisions? Evidence from a Procedural Change in Asylum Appeal Decision Making.” Working Paper.
[media effects, voting behavior]
“Media Take-Over and Voting Behavior: Can Politician-Owned Newspapers Shift Voters?” Working Paper.
[immigration, asylum policy]
“Managing Refugee Protection Crises: Policy Lessons from Economics and Political Science.” Working Paper (with Dominik Hangartner and Matti Sarvimäki)
Ongoing Projects
[exclusionary attitudes, voting behavior]
“Historical Anti-Semitism and Contemporary Exclusionary Attitudes.” (with Elias Dinas)
“Historical Exclusionary Attitudes.” (with Dominik Hangartner)
[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.
[development, humanitarian aid]
“The Political Economy of the West Bank. An Attempt to Explain the Economic Protests in September 2012.” (with Hans Heyn), KAS Country Report (also in German).
“Is Resilience a Valid Objective for Humanitarian Aid?” (with Caroline Hargreaves et al.), Report for MSF UK, 2012.
