Refereed Publications:

• “Why are some people (and countries) more protectionist than others?” (with Dani Rodrik), European Economic Review, August 2005, 49(6), pp.1393-1691  (previous version as NBER Working paper 8461). A separate Appendix to the paper is available: Sector classification: Description of the reclassification procedure.

Click here to see a Foreign Policy piece on this paper.

Click here to see a Business Week piece on this paper (see end of the webpage).

• “Who is against immigration?  A cross-country investigation of individual attitudes toward immigrants,” Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2006, 88(3), pp. 510-530. An older version of the paper (April 2004), with additional results, is also available.

• “From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: Theory and Evidence” (with Giovanni Facchini), Economic Policy, October 2008, 56, pp. 651 – 713.

• “Why are people more pro-trade than pro-migration?,” Economics Letters, December 2008, 101(3), pp. 160-163.

• “Do countries free ride on MFN?” (with Rod Ludema), Journal of International Economics, April 2009, 77(2): pp. 137-150.

• “Does the welfare state affect individual attitudes toward immigrants? Evidence across countries” (with Giovanni Facchini), Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2009, 91(2): pp. 295-314.

Reprinted in Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller eds., 2011, “Recent Developments in the Economics of Immigration” Edward Elgar.

• “Do South-South trade agreements increase trade? Commodity-level evidence from COMESA” (with Chad Steinberg), Canadian Journal of Economics, November 2009, 42(4): pp. 1361-1389.

• “International migration: A panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows,” Journal of Population Economics, October 2010, 23 (4): pp. 1249-1274. A separate Appendix to "International Migration" is available: OECD countries migration policy changes, 2004 (with Krishna Patel). A separate Data Appendix to “International Migration” is available: Average yearly inflows into each destination country, by country of origin (1980-1995).

• “Do interest groups affect US immigration policy?” (with Giovanni Facchini and Prachi Mishra), 2011, forthcoming in Journal of International Economics.

• “Individual attitudes towards skilled migration: An empirical analysis across countries” (with Giovanni Facchini), 2011, forthcoming in The World Economy.

• “The battle for brains: How to attract talent” (with Herbert Bruecker, Simone Bertoli, Giovanni Facchini and Giovanni Peri), 2011, forthcoming in T. Boeri, H. Bruecker, F. Docquier and H. Rapoport (eds.) “Brain gain and brain drain” Oxford University Press.

• “What drives immigration policy? Evidence from a survey of government officials” (with Giovanni Facchini), 2010, in I. Gang and G. S. Epstein (eds) Culture and Migration (Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Volume X), World Scientific, pages 605-648.

Working Papers:

• “Risk, government and globalization: International survey evidence” (with Kevin O'Rourke and Richard Sinnott), last revised September 2009, revise and resubmit at Economics and Politics.

Click here to see a Montreal Gazette piece on this paper.

• “Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions” (with Rod Ludema and Prachi Mishra), last revised March 2011.

• “Illegal immigration and media exposure: Evidence on individual attitudes” (with Giovanni Facchini and Riccardo Puglisi), last revised September 2010.

• “Do terms-of-trade effects matter for trade agreements? Evidence from WTO countries” (with Rod Ludema), last revised December 2011.

• “South-South migration and the labor market: Evidence from South Africa” (with Giovanni Facchini and Mariapia Mendola), last revised June 2011.

• “What drives individual attitudes towards immigration in South Africa?” (with Giovanni Facchini and Mariapia Mendola), last revised April 2012.

• “Individual attitudes towards immigration: Economic vs. non-economic determinants” (with Giovanni Facchini and Riccardo Puglisi), prepared for a volume edited by Gary Freeman, Randall Hansen and David Leal, last revised December 2010.

Work in Progress:

• “Trade Liberalization in Latin America: The Role of Political Economy Factors” (with Antoni Estevadeordal, Rod Ludema and Christian Volpe), last revised September 2010.

• “Lobbying Expenditures on Migration: A Descriptive Analysis,” last revised April 2010.

Other publications:

• “Canada: No Place Like Home for Antidumping” (with Rod Ludema), 2011, in Chad P. Bown (ed.), The Great Recession and Import Protection: The Role of Temporary Trade Barriers. London, UK: CEPR and the World Bank (chapter 4).
• “The Political Economy of Immigration Policy” (with Giovanni Facchini), Background paper for the 2009 United Nations Human Development Report, March 2009.

• From attitudes towards immigration to immigration policy outcomes: Does public opinion rule? (with Giovanni Facchini), Vox, June 2008.

• How individual attitudes are mapped into immigration policy outcomes (with Giovanni Facchini), Vox, May 2008.

• Big governments and globalisation are complementary (with Kevin O’Rourke), Vox, November 2007.

• Perché non piace la globalizzazione, La Voce, October 2005.

• International migration flows: The role of destination countries' migration policies (with Krishna Patel), Commissioned by CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) for the Social Security Administration project on Long-Term Immigration Projection Methods: Current Practice and How to Improve it, Web-published by the Boston College Center for Retirement Research, February 2006.

• “Jamaica secondary education: Improving quality and expanding access," World Bank Report in Two Volumes No.19069-JM, Human Development Department, Caribbean Country Management Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region. Collaborated in the preparation of the report and responsible for its statistical annexes, World Bank, Washington DC, 1998.

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