Recipient of the 2020 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Journal of the European Economic Association.
Marco E. Tabellini
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
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(617) 496-4614
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), the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), 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
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- Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini. "From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration." Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming). (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, Cato Institute, and in Oxford University Press's Blog.) View Details
- Working Papers
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- Faber, Marius, Andres Sarto, and Marco Tabellini. "Local Shocks and Internal Migration: The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-071, December 2019. (Also appears in HBS Working Knowledge.) 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. (Revised July 2021. Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Economic Literature.) View Details
- Gagliarducci, Stefano, and Marco Tabellini. "Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S." Working Paper, July 2021. 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. (Revised May 2021. Permanent link here. Revise and Resubmit at Nature of Human Behaviour.) View Details
- Tabellini, Marco, Philipp Jaschke, and Sulin Sardoschau. "Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany." Working Paper, 2021. (Draft coming soon.) View Details
- Fouka, Vasiliki, and Marco Tabellini. "Changing In-group Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-100, March 2020. (Revise and resubmit at American Political Science Review. Revised April 2021.) View Details
- Qian, Nancy, and Marco Tabellini. "State Capacity and Discrimination: WWII U.S. Army 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 and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-017, August 2019. (Revised June 2021. Available also from VOX, Broadstreet, and VOX EU. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28965) 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
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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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
- Areas of Interest
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- economic history
- economic institutions
- political economy
- international trade
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