Research


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SNSF Starting Grant
Causes, Contexts, Consequences: Understanding Immigrant Integration through Citizenship

DFG Project
Identifying and Evaluating the Impact of Policy Interventions for Increasing Citizenship Acquisition Rates in Germany

Work in Progress
  • Evaluation of Naturalization Campaigns in Germany
  • Ethnic and Religious Discrimination in the German Labor Market
  • Social Network Formation among Syrian and Eritrean Women (with Susanne Schührer)
  • Evaluation of Refugees' Targeted Allocation to Language Courses (with Salwan Saif & Pia Homrighausen)

Articles & Chapters (Peer Review)
  • What Polarizes Citizens? An Explorative Analysis of 817 Attitudinal Items from a Non-random Online Panel in Germany. SocArXiv. September 2023 (with Céline Teney & Tobias Wolfram).
  • Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups, Journal of European Public Policy, 30(12): 2832-2853, 2023 (with Céline Teney & Katja Möhring)
  • Factors Affecting Language Acquisition in the Institutionalized Setting of the German Integration Course, in: Mallows, David & Glenn S. Levine (eds.) Language Learning of Migrants in Europe: Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Issue (2022) (with Anna Tissot, Nina Rother, Andreea Baier, & Johannes Croisier)
  • Attitudes Towards Highly-Skilled and Low-Skilled Immigration in Europe: A Survey Experiment in 15 European Countries, European Journal of Political Research, 57(4): 1009–1030, 2018 (with Elias Naumann & Lukas Stoetzer)
  • Catalyst or Crown: Does Naturalization Promote the Long-Term Social Integration of Immigrants? American Political Science Review 111(2): 256–276, 2017 (with Jens Hainmueller & Dominik Hangartner, shared co-first authorship)
  • Naturalization Fosters the Long-Term Political Integration of Immigrants, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 112(41): 12651–12656, 2015 (with Jens Hainmueller & Dominik Hangartner, shared co-first authorship)

Policy Advice
  • Interim Report I on the Research Project “Evaluation of Integration Courses (EvIk)” [Zwischenbericht I zum Forschungsprojekt “Evaluation der Integrationskurse (EvIk)”], BAMF Research Report 33, 2019 (with Anna Tissot, Andreea Baier, Johannes Croisier, Lars Ninke, Nina Rother, & Christian Babka von Gostomski)
  • Language Skills and Employment Rate of Refugees Improving with Time, Second Wave of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey, BAMF Brief Analysis/IAB Brief Report/DIW Weekly Report, 2019 (with Herbert Brücker, Johannes Croisier, Yuliya Kosyakova, Hannes Kröger, Nina Rother, & Jürgen Schupp)

Dissertation
  • The Value of Citizenship: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence from Germany and Switzerland. Dissertation, 2016. Mannheim: University of Mannheim