Working papers

[5] College Dynasties (with Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer Kowalski, and Joseph Price)
funding by National Science Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation

[4] The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and the Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite (with Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer Kowalski, and Joseph Price) NBER Working Paper  33164
featured in Forbes
funding by National Science Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation

[3] Daughters as Safety Net? Family Responses to Parental Employment Shocks: Evidence from Alcohol Prohibition (with Anna Aizer and Gabrielle Grafton)

[2] Finding John Smith: Using Extra Information for Historical Record Linkage (with Ran Abramitzky, Harriet Brookes Gray, Leah Boustan, Katherine Eriksson, and Myera Rashid) R&R at Review of Economics and Statistics

[1] Who Benefits from Meritocracy? (with Diana Moreira) NBER Working Paper  30113
featured in Fordham Institute, Al Roth’s blog
funding by NBER Economics of Mobility Fellowship

Published

[9] Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1850-2020 (with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome and Juan David Torres), American Economic Review: Insights, 2024
featured in Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy, The Washington Post, The Washington Post (X2), The New York Times, USA Today, Associated Press

[8] Civil Service Exams and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Pendleton Act (with Diana Moreira), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024
​featured in CATO Research Briefs in Economic Policy

[7] Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration, Economic Journal, 2021 
​featured in Voxeu, La Nación, A Correction Podcast

[6] The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling (with Ran Abramitzky and Victor Lavy), Journal of Public Economics, 2021

[5] Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries (with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Elisa Jácome), The American Economic Review,  2021
​featured in New York Times, New York Times (X2), AEA “Chart of the Week”, Daily Mail, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Opinion, Forbes,,  CBS, Vox, Vox (X2), NBER Digest,  NPR, We are mitú, International Business Times, The Davis Enterprise, The California Aggie, NYT En Español,​ AEIdeas, Brookings Institution, El Universal, San Diego Tribune, Infobae, Psychology Today

[4] Automated Linking of Historical Data (with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Katherine Eriksson and James Feigenbaum), Journal of Economic Literature, 2021
​featured in Voxeu

[3] Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Across Three Continents, The Journal of Economic History, 2019

[2] Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources: A Fully Automated Approach (with Ran Abramitzky and Roy Mill), Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2019

[1] The (South) American Dream: Mobility and Economic Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in 19th-Century Argentina, The Journal of Economic History, 2017 (lead article) 
Best Article by a Researcher under 35 (National Academy of Economic Sciences of Argentina

Book chapters

[2] Migration and Immigrant Outcomes at the Destination, to be published in “Research Handbook of Historical Sociology.” Editor: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

[1] The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns (with Federico Droller and Martin Fiszbein), to be published in “Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic (and Political) History of Latin America and the Caribbean.” Edited Volume. Palgrave, Macmillan.

Older working papers

[1] Railroads and the Rural to Urban Transition: Evidence from 19th-Century Argentina ​