My research is at the intersection of comparative political behavior and public policy, with a substantive focus on immigration and a regional focus on Western Europe. I employ designs to identify causal effects using observational data, methods for text-as-data, as well as machine learning approaches.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- With Rahsaan Maxwell. “Does local context affect asylum seeker integration? County-level data from Germany.” (2023). West European Politics. [Link].
- “Journey Effects? Waiting Periods in European Transit Countries and Subsequent Economic Integration of Refugees in Switzerland”. (2022). International Migration Review.[Link]
- Winner: Prothro Best Paper Award, UNC-Chapel Hill Political Science Department (2020). [Link]
- “Does policy threat mobilise? 287(g) and Latino voter registration in North Carolina and Florida”. (2020). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. [Link]
Working Papers & Projects in Progress
- With David Attewell and Andreas Jozwiak. “The Electoral Impacts of Immigration without Ethnic Difference: The Case of Co-ethnic Migration in Germany. ” (Revise and Resubmit).
- With Rahsaan Maxwell. “Do Hate Crimes Change Native Attitudes Towards Refugees?” (Revise and Resubmit).
- With Elias Dinas and Anica Waldendorf. “Horizontal Transmission? Regional Norms and Migrant Acculturation.” (Under Review).
- With Kaitlin Alper. “Are Belief Systems Rooted in National Contexts?”. In Progress.