Research
Publications
Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany (w/ Marius Liebald and Guido Friebel) (Link) (Forthcoming: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy)
VoxEU Column: Here
Identifying Partisan Gerrymandering and its Consequences: Evidence from Immigrant Legalization and the 1990 US Redistricting Cycle (w/ Noam Yuchtman) (Link) (Forthcoming: 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 Human Capital, and Hispanic Representation on School Boards (Link)
Work in Progress
Voting Systems and Minority Representation: Evidence from Texas School Boards (w/ Ebonya Washington)
Climbing the Ladder: IRCA, Political Mobility and the Evolution of Hispanic Representation (w/ Andrea Bernini)
Newspaper Closures in an Age of Hyperinflation: Identifying Media Slant and its Consequences in Interwar Germany (w/ Marius Liebald and Noam Yuchtman)
Female Franchise and Female Voter Preferences: Evidence from 20th-Century Germany (w/ Mathias Bühler)
Female Political Representation and Women's Suffrage: Evidence from Switzerland (w/ Marius Liebald)