Immigrants - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54810 forthcoming Review of Economic Studies Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I jointly investigate the political and the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 May 2015
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Prestige brands can expand their reach—and make their core customers proud

types of new customers: brand immigrants and brand tourists. Her findings show that while brand immigrants can dilute a brand’s image, brand tourists increase the pride of established customers by... View Details

04 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

his most prominent and seemingly extreme stance: his proposal to crack down on illegal immigration. Yet, these Clinton voters may have jumped to the wrong conclusions. While Clinton voters assumed that Trump’s immigration policy drove... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

companies devised political strategies that maneuvered a reluctant President Roosevelt into supporting their interests, and the Mexican government more than fully compensated them as a result. Neither wages for oil workers nor Mexican government oil revenue rose after... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55048 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—How does the appearance of a new... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Sep 2020
News

A Righteous Path

as we can, but to completely eliminate the problem in our area.” He estimates that for every child Safe Passage is currently assisting, there are three others in the New York area who don’t have legal representation in immigration court.... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

08 Mar 2017
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Safe, Secure, and Prosperous

Maria Fernandez (AMP 187, 2014) is the deputy secretary of the Intelligence and Capability Group for the Australia Department of Immigration and Border Protection. In this interview, she describes how her department’s intelligence... View Details

15 Nov 2020
News

How Scholarships Helped One Student Achieve Many Firsts

of State as a Fulbright Scholar to Silicon Valley to HBS. Keung immigrated to the United States when she was three years old and grew up in Los Angeles, where she helped her parents in their tiny Chinese restaurant after school. She... View Details

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

better informed politically and had more political discussions with their neighbors during the electoral campaign, making them more civically engaged overall. Increasing the immigrant vote In the second study Pons performed, particularly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

The contributions made by immigrant scientists and engineers for developing new U.S. technologies have been formidable—but not always well described. What we do know: While the foreign-born account for just over 10 percent of the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2025 | Working Knowledge

northern gannets, murres, and all kinds of other seabirds in the North Atlantic and Arctic. Both of these are great diversions for me! Shih is the Robert & Jane Cizik Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. Marco Tabellini: A nuanced view of View Details

24 Apr 2014
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A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements

General Foods, oversees a company that produces 35 varieties of cheeses, providing a welcome taste of home for immigrants from Central and South America, India, and the Middle East. (Published April 2014) View Details

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Tricia Peralta

to help navigate US immigration concerns and provide a sounding board for folks trying to decide if they want to work in the US or elsewhere. Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Internship), The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis, and... View Details

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Lavinia Teodorescu | MBA

recreate this human bond in the online world?" — Francois-Henri Pinault, Kering Tech areas of interest: Fashion Tech, AI/ML, 3D Virtual Worlds & the Metaverse Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: Since the beginning of the pandemic, I... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

INK: Out of Exile

Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You recounts her own family’s story, but also those of other refugees she met at camps in Greece, or at other points along their path to escape. Nayeri says that, having experienced life as a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

2014
Working Paper

Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

By: Nava Ashraf, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A. and Dean Yang

While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a randomized field experiment to investigate the importance of migrant control over the use of... View Details

Keywords: Migration; Remittances; Intrahousehold Allocation; Savings; Immigration; Diasporas; International Finance; El Salvador

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07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring significant economic prosperity to receiving areas. I... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

Air Time

immigrant Mom past the fact that I’m (still) not a doctor.” not enough to get my immigrant Mom past the fact that I’m (still) not a doctor.” Cited (photo by CL Media/iStock) (photo by CL Media/iStock) “About... View Details

Oscar F. Mayer

Mayer, an immigrant from Germany, founded a meat packing business in Chicago. The company grew from 12 employees in 1919 to over 8,000 by 1955, and it had four additional packaging plants in various states. By the end of his tenure, the... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

17 Feb 2020
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The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US

Keywords: by Marius Faber, Andres Sarto, and Marco Tabellini

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