Research

Publications

• Identifying Partisan Gerrymandering and its Consequences: Evidence from Immigrant Legalization and the 1990 US Redistricting Cycle (w/ Noam Yuchtman) (Link) (Conditional Accept: Journal of Political Economy: Micro)

• Immigrant Legalization and the Redistribution of State Funds: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA (w/ Christoph Winter) Journal of Public Economics, August 2024, Volume 236 (Link)

• The Long-Run Effects of War: The 30 Years' War and Violent Crime in the Late 19th Century (w/ Matthias Heinz, Guido Friebel and Stefan Pasch) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, April 2023, Pages 191-202 (Link) 

• Turning Out for Redistribution: The Effect of Voter Turnout on Top Marginal Tax Rates Public Choice, January 2023 194:347–367  (Link) 

Working Papers

• Out of the Shadows and into the Classroom: Immigrant Legalization, Hispanic Schooling, and Hispanic Representation on School Boards (Link) (R & R: AEJ: Economic Policy)

• Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany (w/ Marius Liebald and Guido Friebel) (Link) (R & R: AEJ: Economic Policy)

  • • VoxEU Column: Here 

Work in Progress

• Voting Systems and Minority Representation: Evidence from Texas School Boards (w/ Ebonya Washington)

• Newspaper Closures in an Age of Hyperinflation: Identifying Media Slant and its Consequences in Interwar Germany (w/ Marius Liebald)

• Identity Politics: Hispanic Mayors and Local Public Resource Distribution (w/ Mathias Bühler)

• Female Political Representation and Women's Suffrage: Evidence from Switzerland (w/ Marius Liebald)