Media

Press coverage
Research spotlight
The economic payoff of name Americanization
2013–2014
A paper on how immigrants who Americanized their names in the early 20th century earned significantly more — picked up widely across economics and general press.
Freakonomics The Economist (Dec 2013) The Economist (Mar 2014) Slate Financial Times Chris Blattman's blog
New York Times · Oct 2017
Pinpointing racial discrimination by government officials
Coverage of our field experiment showing black-sounding names receive fewer and less cordial responses from US local public services.
Frankfurter Allgemeine · Aug 2012
Zuwanderung macht die Deutschen glücklicher
German-language coverage on immigration and well-being among German residents.
EUobserver · 2012
EU states not 'welfare magnets' for migrants
Coverage of research challenging the welfare magnet hypothesis for intra-EU migration.
Blogs & commentary
Understanding Society Blog · May 2022
News about ISIS — a boost for UKIP?
How terror-related news headlines shifted voting intentions toward right-wing parties in the UK.
Impact · Monash University · Mar 2022
Is 'local shock' the key to overcoming vaccine hesitancy?
On how mortality salience — seeing deaths in your community — increases vaccine take-up.
IZA Newsroom · Aug 2018
When the market drives you crazy: stock returns and fatal car accidents
On the surprising link between stock market volatility and road mortality.
OUPblog · May 2018
Do government officials discriminate?
A summary of findings from our correspondence experiment across 19,000 US public service providers.
The UK in a Changing Europe · Apr 2017
Immigration and happiness in the UK
On the well-being effects of immigration on native residents.
IZA Newsroom · Aug 2015
African Americans discriminated against in access to US local public services
On systematic disparities in government responsiveness by race across the United States.
VoxEU · Dec 2014
Who matters more for migration decisions? Close friends or acquaintances?
Evidence from China on the differential roles of strong and weak ties in internal migration.
Video & podcast
Does migration make us happy?
Tales of migration: citizenship, benefits and identity in Brexit Britain · May 2017