Marco E. Tabellini

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Business, Government and the International Economy

+1 (617) 496-4614

Unit

Business, Government and the International Economy

Contact Information

(617) 496-4614

Publications

Awards & Honors

Recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Review of Economic Studies.

Recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Review of Economic Studies.

Recipient of the 2020 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Review of Economic Studies.

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.

Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), and at IZA.

Professor Tabellini studies the political and the 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 inter-group relations, and to what extent migration can be a tool to foster the political and the social integration of under-represented segments of the population. To answer these questions, Marco has focused on the early twentieth century US, which was characterized by the massive inflow of Europeans 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.

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.

Journal Articles

Tabellini, Marco, and Giacomo Magistretti. "Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy." Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online August 9, 2024. Available also from VOX, VOXEU, Atlantico, The Economist, Domani, and Ideas for India. Longer NBER working paper version available here.) View Details
Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini. "Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility." Journal of Economic History (forthcoming). (Winner of European Economic Association Young Economist Award, 2018.) View Details
Bernini, Andrea, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini, and Cecilia Testa. "Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls." Oxford Review of Economic Policy (forthcoming). View Details
Tabellini, Marco. "Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of 'Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success' (PublicAffairs, 2022) by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan." Journal of Economic Literature 62, no. 2 (June, 2024): 739–760. View Details
Alesina, Alberto, and Marco Tabellini. "The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?" Journal of Economic Literature 62, no. 1 (March 2024): 5–46. View Details
Calderon, Alvaro, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights." Review of Economic Studies 90, no. 1 (January 2023): 165–200. (Available also from VOX, Broadstreet, and VOX EU.) View Details
Cikara, Mina, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Hate Crime Towards Minoritized Groups Increases as They Increase in Sized-Based Rank." Nature Human Behaviour 6, no. 11 (November 2022): 1537–1544. (Pre-Published online August 8, 2022, Featured in HBS Working Knowledge and ABC News.) View Details
Engel, Claudia, Jonathan Rodden, and Marco Tabellini. "Policies to Influence Perceptions about COVID-19 Risk: The Case of Maps." Science Advances 8, no. 11 (March 18, 2022). View Details
Fouka, Vasiliki, and Marco Tabellini. "Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States." American Political Science Review 116, no. 3 (August, 2022): 968–984. (Featured in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and HBS Working Knowledge.) View Details
Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini. "From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration." Review of Economic Studies 89, no. 2 (March 2022): 811–842. (Also appears in VoxEU, The New York Times, Broadstreet, the Skepticast, and Oxford University Press Blog.) View Details
Tabellini, Marco. "Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration." 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, Cato Institute, and in Oxford University Press's Blog.) View Details

Working Papers

Qian, Nancy, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment during WWII." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-005, July 2020. (Revised June 2024. Conditionally accepted at the Review of Economic Studies. Available also from KelloggInsight, HBS Working Knowledge, and NBER.) View Details
Gagliarducci, Stefano, and Marco Tabellini. "Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-029, November 2021. (Revised January 2024. Also available from NBER and featured in NBER Digest and VoxEU. Conditionally accepted at the Economic Journal.) View Details
Bernini, Andrea, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini, and Cecilia Testa. "Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-075, June 2023. (Revised September 2024. Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy. Also available on Vox EU and VoxDev. Featured on HBS Working Knowledge.) View Details
Giuliano, Paola, and Marco Tabellini. "The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-118, May 2020. (Revised July 2024. Revise and resubmit at the Journal of the European Economic Association. Available also from VOX, UCLA Anderson Review, Weekendavisen, Cato Institute, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), World Financial Review, and Newsweek.) View Details
Obolensky, Marguerite, Marco Tabellini, and Charles Taylor. "Migration, Climate Similarity, and the Consequences of Climate Mismatch." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-031, November 2023. (Revised November 2024. Also available from VoxEU and e-axes.) View Details
Long, Joe, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian, and Marco Tabellini. "The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the Economic Development of the Western U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-008, August 2022. (Revised September 2024. Featured in Bloomberg and at Hoover Institute, quoted here.) View Details
Faber, Marius, Andres Sarto, and Marco Tabellini. "Local Shocks and Internal Migration: The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-071, December 2019. (Revised February 2023. Also appears in HBS Working Knowledge. Longer NBER working paper version here.) View Details
Jaschke, Philipp, Sulin Sardoschau, and Marco Tabellini. "Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-043, December 2021. (Revised August 2024. Also available from NBER, and featured on Le Monde.) View Details
Bordalo, Pedro, Marco Tabellini, and David Yang. "Issue Salience and Political Stereotypes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-106, April 2020. (Revised January 2021. Available also from VOX EU.) View Details
Tabellini, Marco. "Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-006, July 2018. (Revised September 2019. Featured in Harvard Magazine.) View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials

Pons, Vincent, Marco Tabellini, and Vestal McIntyre. "The Marshall Plan: The Politics and Economics of Europe’s Recovery after World War II." Harvard Business School Case 724-039, March 2024. (Revised October 2024.) View Details
Tabellini, Marco, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "South Africa: Growth and Inequality." Harvard Business School Case 724-038, March 2024. (Revised March 2024.) View Details
Tabellini, Marco E. "Mexico, Trade, and Development." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 722-072, June 2022. (Revised March 2024.) View Details
Tabellini, Marco E. "Mexico, Trade, and Development." Harvard Business School Case 722-062, March 2022. (Revised March 2024.) View Details
Tabellini, Marco. "Reforming the U.S. Immigration Regime: A Polarizing Issue in a Polarized Era." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 722-015, September 2021. View Details
Tabellini, Marco. "Reforming the U.S. Immigration Regime: A Polarizing Issue in a Polarized Era." Harvard Business School Case 721-022, April 2021. (Revised August 2021.) View Details
Pons, Vincent, and Marco E. Tabellini. "Democracy: Exit, Voice and Representation." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-038, November 2018. (Revised January 2020.) View Details

Book Chapters

Tabellini, Marco. "The Economic and Political Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, edited by Jonathan H. Hamilton. Oxford University Press, 2021. Electronic. View Details

Work in Progress

Tabellini, Marco, Silvia Farina, and Andy Ferrara. "World War II and the Roots of the Civil Rights Movement." Working Paper, 2022. View Details
Tabellini, Marco, Michela Carlana, Matti Sarvimaki, and Mikko Silliman. "Preventing Social Exclusion of Immigrants in Finland." Working Paper, 2020. View Details
Boustan, Leah, and Marco Tabellini. "Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment." Working Paper, 2018. View Details
Fontana, Nicola, Marco Manacorda, Gianluca Russo, and Marco Tabellini. "Emigration and Long-Run Economic Development: the Effects of the Italian Mass Migration." September 2018. View Details

Awards & Honors