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- 2020
- Working Paper
Hate Crime Increases with Minoritized Group Rank
By: Mina Cikara, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
People are on the move in unprecedented numbers across the globe. How does migration affect local intergroup dynamics? In contrast to accounts that emphasize stereotypical features of groups as determinants of their treatment, we propose the social group reference...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?
By: Alberto Alesina and Marco Tabellini
We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why. We start from the...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S.
By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini
- 2020
- Working Paper
Partisanship, Information, and Policy Preferences
By: Marco Tabellini and Jaya Y. Wen
- 2020
- Working Paper
Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment
By: Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
This paper documents that disenfranchisement and discrimination discouraged WWII volunteer military participation of African American men, relative to Caucasian men, after the Pearl Harbor attack. The race-gap in volunteer enlistment is most pronounced in regions where...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
By: Paola Giuliano and Marco Tabellini
We test the relationship between historical immigration to the U.S. and political ideology today. We hypothesize that European immigrants brought with them their preferences for the welfare state, and that this had a long-lasting effect on the political ideology of...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Issue Salience and Political Stereotypes
By: Pedro Bordalo, Marco Tabellini and David Yang
U.S. voters exaggerate the differences in attitudes held by Republicans and Democrats on a range of socioeconomic and political issues, and higher perceived polarization is associated with greater political engagement and affective polarization. In this paper, we...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the U.S.
By: Vasiliki Fouka, Shom Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new out-group change the in-group’s perceptions of other out-groups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of...
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Keywords:
In-group-out-group Relations;
Immigration;
Race;
Attitudes;
Boundaries;
Prejudice And Bias
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the U.S.
By: Marius Faber, Andres Sarto and Marco Tabellini
Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that have hit Western economies since the late...
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- January 2020
- Article
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration
By: Marco Tabellini
In this paper, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration and study the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
Between 1940 and 1970 more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized...
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Keywords:
Civil Rights;
Great Migration;
Race;
Diversity;
Demographics;
Rights;
Government Legislation
- November 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Technical Note
Democracy: Exit, Voice and Representation
By: Vincent Pons and Marco E. Tabellini
- 2018
- Other Unpublished Work
Emigration and Long-Run Economic Development: the Effects of the Italian Mass Migration
By: Nicola Fontana, Marco Manacorda, Gianluca Russo and Marco Tabellini
- 2020
- Working Paper
From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration
By: Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
How does the appearance of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to...
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- 2018
- Other Unpublished Work
The Effect of Absolute and Relative Group Size on Immigrant Integration
By: Vasiliki Fouka, Kai Gehring and Marco Tabellini
- 2020
- Working Paper
Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility
By: Michela Carlana and Marco Tabellini
We study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 using a shift-share design. We find that natives living in cities that received more immigrants were more likely to marry, have kids, and...
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Keywords:
Immigration;
Demography;
Urban Scope;
Household;
Employment;
History;
Outcome Or Result;
United States
- 2018
- Working Paper
Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment
By: Leah Boustan and Marco Tabellini
Can emigration from less democratic and economically less developed areas induce political and economic change? We study this question in the context of the second Great Migration of African Americans (1940–1970), when more than 4 million blacks left the U.S. South and...
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- 2019
- Working Paper
Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration
By: Marco Tabellini
Between 1915 and 1930, during the First Great Migration, more than 1.5 million African Americans migrated from the South to the North of the United States, altering the racial profile of several northern cities for the first time in American history. I exploit this...
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Keywords:
Migration;
Race;
City;
Financial Condition;
Government And Politics;
History;
United States
- 2019
- Working Paper
Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation
By: Giacomo Magistretti and Marco Tabellini
We study whether economic integration fosters the process of democratization and the channels through which this might happen. Our analysis is based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument actual trade with predicted trade constructed...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Preventing Social Exclusion of Immigrants in Finland
By: Marco Tabellini, Michela Carlana, Matti Sarvimaki and Mikko Silliman