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Working Papers

2025

1. Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia
   Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2024) View citations (1)
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2024) View citations (1)
2. Daughters as Safety Net? Family Responses to Parental Employment Shocks: Evidence from Alcohol Prohibition
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
3. Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2025)

2024

4. The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2023

5. Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870–2020
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020, American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Association (2024) View citations (1) (2024)
6. The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Chapter The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns, Springer Books, Springer (2023) (2023)

2022

7. Who Benefits from Meritocracy?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2022) View citations (2)

2021

8. Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2024) View citations (1) (2024)

2019

9. Automated Linking of Historical Data
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (46)
   See also Journal Article Automated Linking of Historical Data, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association (2021) View citations (47) (2021)
10. Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)
11. Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2018

12. Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources: a Fully Automated Approach
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article Linking individuals across historical sources: A fully automated approach*, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Taylor & Francis Journals (2020) View citations (11) (2020)
13. The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article The long-term spillover effects of changes in the return to schooling, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2021) View citations (4) (2021)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16, (3), 250-91 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (2) (2021)
2. Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020
   American Economic Review: Insights, 2024, 6, (4), 453-71 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870–2020, NBER Working Papers (2023) (2023)

2021

3. Automated Linking of Historical Data
   Journal of Economic Literature, 2021, 59, (3), 865-918 View citations (47)
   See also Working Paper Automated Linking of Historical Data, NBER Working Papers (2019) View citations (46) (2019)
4. Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the United States over Two Centuries
   American Economic Review, 2021, 111, (2), 580-608 View citations (64)
5. Selina Todd, Snakes and ladders: The Great British social mobility myth (London: Penguin Books, 2021. Pp. i+448. ISBN 9781784740818 Hbk. £25.00)
   Economic History Review, 2021, 74, (4), 1116-1117
6. Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the United States During the Age of Mass Migration
   The Economic Journal, 2021, 131, (638), 2613-2628 View citations (4)
7. The long-term spillover effects of changes in the return to schooling
   Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 196, (C) View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (2) (2018)

2020

8. Linking individuals across historical sources: A fully automated approach*
   Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2020, 53, (2), 94-111 View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources: a Fully Automated Approach, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (8) (2018)

2019

9. Intergenerational Occupational Mobility across Three Continents
   The Journal of Economic History, 2019, 79, (2), 383-416 View citations (9)
10. Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America. ByElizabeth Zanoni. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. xii + 276 pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $32.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-252-04165-5; paper, 978-0-252-08329-7
    Business History Review, 2019, 93, (3), 645-647

2017

11. The (South) American Dream: Mobility and Economic Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Argentina
    The Journal of Economic History, 2017, 77, (4), 971-1006 View citations (3)

Chapters

2023

1. The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns
   Springer
   See also Working Paper The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023) (2023)