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Marco E. Tabellini

Marco E. Tabellini

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at IZA.

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Professor Tabellini studies the political and the economic effects of immigration. His research also seeks to understand which factors facilitate or hinder immigrant assimilation, how the presence of different ethnic groups in a society influences inter-group relations, and to what extent migration can be a tool to foster the political and the social integration of under-represented segments of the population. To answer these questions, Marco has focused on the early twentieth century US, which was characterized by the massive inflow of Europeans and by the first migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North of the US. More recently, Marco has also analyzed the effects of the second Great Migration of African Americans between 1940 and 1970, investigating how this episode contributed to the development of the Civil Rights movement, both in the South and in the North of the United States.

Professor Tabellini earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, and spent the academic year 2018-2019 as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School before joining the faculty. He also holds a B.S. and M.S. in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.


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Publications Awards & Honors

Journal Articles
Journal Articles

  • Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini. "From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-018, August 2018. (Revised October 2020. Accepted at Review of Economic Studies. Also appears in VoxEU, The New York Times, Broadstreet and in the Skepticast.) View Details
  • Tabellini, Marco. "Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration." Review of Economic Studies 87, no. 1 (January 2020): 454–486. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-005, July 2018. Available also from Cato Institute, Microeconomic Insights, VOX, Broadstreet and in Cato Institute.) View Details

Working Papers
Working Papers

  • Qian, Nancy, and Marco Tabellini. "Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-005, July 2020. (Revised April 2021. Available also from KelloggInsight and HBS Working Knowledge.) View Details
  • Giuliano, Paola, and Marco Tabellini. "The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-118, May 2020. (Revised March 2021. Available also from VOX, UCLA Anderson Review, Weekendavisen and in Cato Institute.) View Details
  • Calderon, Alvaro, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-017, August 2019. (Revised February 2021. Available also from VOX and in Broadstreet.) View Details
  • Gagliarducci, Stefano, and Marco Tabellini. "Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S." Working Paper, February 2021. View Details
  • Tabellini, Marco, Claudia Engel, and Jonathan Rodden. "The Design of Disease Maps Shapes Perceptions of Threat and Public Policy Preferences." Working Paper, January 2021. View Details
  • Bordalo, Pedro, Marco Tabellini, and David Yang. "Issue Salience and Political Stereotypes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-106, April 2020. (Revised January 2021. Available also from VOX EU.) View Details
  • Cikara, Mina, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Hate Crime Increases with Minoritized Group Rank." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-075, December 2020. (Permanent link here.) View Details
  • Alesina, Alberto, and Marco Tabellini. "The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-069, November 2020. View Details
  • Faber, Marius, Andres Sarto, and Marco Tabellini. "The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-071, December 2019. (Also appears in HBS Working Knowledge.) View Details
  • Tabellini, Marco. "Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-006, July 2018. (Revised September 2019. Featured in Harvard Magazine.) View Details
  • Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini. "Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-004, July 2018. (Revised November 2020. Winner of European Economic Association Young Economist Award, 2018. IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) Discussion Paper Series, No. 11467, April 2018) View Details
  • Magistretti, Giacomo, and Marco Tabellini. "Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-003, July 2018. (Revised January 2019. Available also from VOX.) View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials
Cases and Teaching Materials

  • Tabellini, Marco. "Reforming the U.S. Immigration Regime: A Polarizing Issue in a Polarized Era." Harvard Business School Case 721-022, April 2021. View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, and Marco E. Tabellini. "Democracy: Exit, Voice and Representation." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-038, November 2018. (Revised January 2020.) View Details

Work in Progress
Work in Progress

  • Tabellini, Marco, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Partisanship, Information, and Policy Preferences." Working Paper, 2020. View Details
  • Tabellini, Marco, Michela Carlana, Matti Sarvimaki, and Mikko Silliman. "Preventing Social Exclusion of Immigrants in Finland." Working Paper, 2020. View Details
  • Boustan, Leah, and Marco Tabellini. "Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment." Working Paper, 2018. View Details
  • Fouka, Vasiliki, Kai Gehring, and Marco Tabellini. "The Effect of Absolute and Relative Group Size on Immigrant Integration." 2018. View Details
  • Fontana, Nicola, Marco Manacorda, Gianluca Russo, and Marco Tabellini. "Emigration and Long-Run Economic Development: the Effects of the Italian Mass Migration." September 2018. View Details
All Publications

Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at IZA.

 .

Professor Tabellini studies the political and the economic effects of immigration. His research also seeks to understand which factors facilitate or hinder immigrant assimilation, how the presence of different ethnic groups in a society influences inter-group relations, and to what extent migration can be a tool to foster the political and the social integration of under-represented segments of the population. To answer these questions, Marco has focused on the early twentieth century US, which was characterized by the massive inflow of Europeans and by the first migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North of the US. More recently, Marco has also analyzed the effects of the second Great Migration of African Americans between 1940 and 1970, investigating how this episode contributed to the development of the Civil Rights movement, both in the South and in the North of the United States.

Professor Tabellini earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, and spent the academic year 2018-2019 as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School before joining the faculty. He also holds a B.S. and M.S. in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.


Journal Articles
  • Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini. "From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-018, August 2018. (Revised October 2020. Accepted at Review of Economic Studies. Also appears in VoxEU, The New York Times, Broadstreet and in the Skepticast.) View Details
  • Tabellini, Marco. "Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration." Review of Economic Studies 87, no. 1 (January 2020): 454–486. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-005, July 2018. Available also from Cato Institute, Microeconomic Insights, VOX, Broadstreet and in Cato Institute.) View Details
Working Papers
  • Qian, Nancy, and Marco Tabellini. "Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-005, July 2020. (Revised April 2021. Available also from KelloggInsight and HBS Working Knowledge.) View Details
  • Giuliano, Paola, and Marco Tabellini. "The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-118, May 2020. (Revised March 2021. Available also from VOX, UCLA Anderson Review, Weekendavisen and in Cato Institute.) View Details
  • Calderon, Alvaro, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-017, August 2019. (Revised February 2021. Available also from VOX and in Broadstreet.) View Details
  • Gagliarducci, Stefano, and Marco Tabellini. "Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S." Working Paper, February 2021. View Details
  • Tabellini, Marco, Claudia Engel, and Jonathan Rodden. "The Design of Disease Maps Shapes Perceptions of Threat and Public Policy Preferences." Working Paper, January 2021. View Details
  • Bordalo, Pedro, Marco Tabellini, and David Yang. "Issue Salience and Political Stereotypes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-106, April 2020. (Revised January 2021. Available also from VOX EU.) View Details
  • Cikara, Mina, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Hate Crime Increases with Minoritized Group Rank." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-075, December 2020. (Permanent link here.) View Details
  • Alesina, Alberto, and Marco Tabellini. "The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-069, November 2020. View Details
  • Faber, Marius, Andres Sarto, and Marco Tabellini. "The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-071, December 2019. (Also appears in HBS Working Knowledge.) View Details
  • Tabellini, Marco. "Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-006, July 2018. (Revised September 2019. Featured in Harvard Magazine.) View Details
  • Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini. "Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-004, July 2018. (Revised November 2020. Winner of European Economic Association Young Economist Award, 2018. IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) Discussion Paper Series, No. 11467, April 2018) View Details
  • Magistretti, Giacomo, and Marco Tabellini. "Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-003, July 2018. (Revised January 2019. Available also from VOX.) View Details
Cases and Teaching Materials
  • Tabellini, Marco. "Reforming the U.S. Immigration Regime: A Polarizing Issue in a Polarized Era." Harvard Business School Case 721-022, April 2021. View Details
  • Pons, Vincent, and Marco E. Tabellini. "Democracy: Exit, Voice and Representation." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-038, November 2018. (Revised January 2020.) View Details
Work in Progress
  • Tabellini, Marco, and Jaya Y. Wen. "Partisanship, Information, and Policy Preferences." Working Paper, 2020. View Details
  • Tabellini, Marco, Michela Carlana, Matti Sarvimaki, and Mikko Silliman. "Preventing Social Exclusion of Immigrants in Finland." Working Paper, 2020. View Details
  • Boustan, Leah, and Marco Tabellini. "Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment." Working Paper, 2018. View Details
  • Fouka, Vasiliki, Kai Gehring, and Marco Tabellini. "The Effect of Absolute and Relative Group Size on Immigrant Integration." 2018. View Details
  • Fontana, Nicola, Marco Manacorda, Gianluca Russo, and Marco Tabellini. "Emigration and Long-Run Economic Development: the Effects of the Italian Mass Migration." September 2018. View Details
Awards & Honors
Recipient of the 2020 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Journal of the European Economic Association.
Recipient of the 2020 Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Authority Grant in the Future of Work program for “The Labor Market and Political Effects of Automation” with Sydnee Caldwell.
Recipient of the 2019 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Review of Economic Studies.
Recipient of a 2019 J-PAL European Social Inclusion Initiative Grant for “Teachers at Work: Preventing Social Exclusion of Immigrants” with Michela Carlana, Matti Sarvimaki, and Mikko Silliman.
Won the 2018 European Economic Association Young Economist Award for the paper "Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility" with Michela Carlana.
Recipient of a grant from the UPS Endowment Fund at Stanford University for “Immigrant Group Size and Immigrant Assimilation” (with Vasiliky Fouka and Kai Gehring) in 2018.
Recipient of a Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Authority Grant in the Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program for “From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration” (with Vasiliky Fouka and Shom Mazumder) in 2017.
Additional Information
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Google Scholar
  • Email
Areas of Interest
  • economic history
  • economic institutions
  • political economy
  • Additional Topics
  • international trade
In The News

In The News

    • 01 Mar 2021
    • HBS Working Knowledge

    How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

    • 21 Jan 2021
    • VoxEU

    Issue salience and political stereotypes

    • 28 Oct 2020
    • Weekendavisen

    Det amerikanske spejl

    • 02 Sep 2020
    • Broadstreet

    The 1920s and H1B visas

    • 13 Jul 2020
    • Cato Institute

    Do Immigrants Make the United States More Left‐​Wing?

→More News for Marco E. Tabellini

Marco E. Tabellini In the News

01 Mar 2021
HBS Working Knowledge
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

21 Jan 2021
VoxEU
Issue salience and political stereotypes

28 Oct 2020
Weekendavisen
Det amerikanske spejl

02 Sep 2020
Broadstreet
The 1920s and H1B visas

13 Jul 2020
Cato Institute
Do Immigrants Make the United States More Left‐​Wing?

17 Jun 2020
UCLA Anderson Review
The Long-Term Political Influence of Immigrants

10 Jun 2020
Vox
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the US

06 Apr 2020
HBS Working Knowledge
Where Do Workers Go When Robots Arrive?

27 Mar 2020
Vox
From immigrants to Americans: Race and assimilation in the age of mass migration

16 Mar 2020
Vox
Economic integration and democracy: An empirical investigation

07 Feb 2020
Micro Economic Insights
The Age of Mass Migration: Contrasting Economic and Political Effects

01 Feb 2020
Vox
Racial diversity, electoral preferences, and the supply of policy: The Great Migration and civil rights

10 Jul 2019
OUPblog
What America’s history of mass migration can teach us about attitudes to immigrants

25 May 2019
Vox
Gifts of the immigrants, woes of the natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

09 May 2019
New York Times
3 Fascinating Things We Learned About Human Nature This Week

13 May 2019
Washington Post
Banning immigrants’ languages can backfire. Just ask Ohio and Indiana.

08 May 2019
Cato Institute
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

01 Dec 2018
Harvard Magazine
Diversity and Diminishing Tax Revenues

17 Jun 2018
VoxEU
The Great Migration and immigrant assimilation

Additional Information
Curriculum Vitae
Google Scholar
Email

Email

mtabellini@hbs.edu

Areas of Interest

economic history
economic institutions
political economy
 More

Additional Topics

international trade
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In The News

    • 01 Mar 2021
    • HBS Working Knowledge

    How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

    • 21 Jan 2021
    • VoxEU

    Issue salience and political stereotypes

    • 28 Oct 2020
    • Weekendavisen

    Det amerikanske spejl

    • 02 Sep 2020
    • Broadstreet

    The 1920s and H1B visas

    • 13 Jul 2020
    • Cato Institute

    Do Immigrants Make the United States More Left‐​Wing?

→More News for Marco E. Tabellini

Marco E. Tabellini In the News

01 Mar 2021
HBS Working Knowledge
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

21 Jan 2021
VoxEU
Issue salience and political stereotypes

28 Oct 2020
Weekendavisen
Det amerikanske spejl

02 Sep 2020
Broadstreet
The 1920s and H1B visas

13 Jul 2020
Cato Institute
Do Immigrants Make the United States More Left‐​Wing?

17 Jun 2020
UCLA Anderson Review
The Long-Term Political Influence of Immigrants

10 Jun 2020
Vox
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the US

06 Apr 2020
HBS Working Knowledge
Where Do Workers Go When Robots Arrive?

27 Mar 2020
Vox
From immigrants to Americans: Race and assimilation in the age of mass migration

16 Mar 2020
Vox
Economic integration and democracy: An empirical investigation

07 Feb 2020
Micro Economic Insights
The Age of Mass Migration: Contrasting Economic and Political Effects

01 Feb 2020
Vox
Racial diversity, electoral preferences, and the supply of policy: The Great Migration and civil rights

10 Jul 2019
OUPblog
What America’s history of mass migration can teach us about attitudes to immigrants

25 May 2019
Vox
Gifts of the immigrants, woes of the natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

09 May 2019
New York Times
3 Fascinating Things We Learned About Human Nature This Week

13 May 2019
Washington Post
Banning immigrants’ languages can backfire. Just ask Ohio and Indiana.

08 May 2019
Cato Institute
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

01 Dec 2018
Harvard Magazine
Diversity and Diminishing Tax Revenues

17 Jun 2018
VoxEU
The Great Migration and immigrant assimilation

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