Marco E. Tabellini
Marco E. Tabellini
Marco E. Tabellini is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit of Harvard Business School, and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). [1][2]
Career
Professor Tabellini studies the political and 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 intergroup relations, and to what extent migration can be a tool to foster the political and social integration of under-represented segments of the population.
In response to these questions, Marco has focused on the early twentieth century US, which was characterized by the massive inflow of European 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.
Education
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.
Awards and 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.
Publications
Tabellini, Marco.
"Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration."
(pdf) 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.)
Calderon, Alvaro, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini.
"Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights."
(pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No.
20-017, August 2019.
(Revised February 2021.
Available also from VOX and in Broadstreet.)
Gagliarducci, Stefano, and Marco Tabellini.
"Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S." (pdf) Working Paper, February 2021.
Tabellini, Marco, Claudia Engel, and Jonathan Rodden.
"The Design of Disease Maps Shapes Perceptions of Threat and Public Policy Preferences."
(pdf) Working Paper, January 2021.
Bordalo, Pedro, Marco Tabellini, and David Yang.
"Issue Salience and Political Stereotypes."
(pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No.
20-106, April 2020.
(Revised January 2021.
Available also from VOX EU.)
Cikara, Mina, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini.
"Hate Crime Increases with Minoritized Group Rank."
(pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No.
21-075, December 2020.
(Permanent link here.)
Alesina, Alberto, and Marco Tabellini.
"The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?" (pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No.
21-069, November 2020.
Giuliano, Paola, and Marco Tabellini.
"The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States."
(pdf) 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.)
Qian, Nancy, and Marco Tabellini.
"Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment."
(pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No.
21-005, July 2020.
(Revised August 2020.
Available also from KelloggInsight and HBS Working Knowledge.)
Fouka, Vasiliki, Shom Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini.
"Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the U.S." (pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No.
20-100, March 2020.
(Revise and resubmit at American Political Science Review.)
Faber, Marius, Andres Sarto, and Marco Tabellini.
"The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the U.S." (pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No.
20-071, December 2019.
(Also appears in HBS Working Knowledge.)
Tabellini, Marco. "Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration."
(pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No.
19-006, July 2018.
(Revised September 2019.
Featured in Harvard Magazine.)
Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini.
"Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility."
(pdf) 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)
Magistretti, Giacomo, and Marco Tabellini.
"Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation."
(pdf) Harvard Business School Working Paper, No.
19-003, July 2018.
(Revised January 2019.
Available also from VOX.)