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Welcome! I am Alex Yarkin, currently a postdoc at UC Davis and LISER. I graduated from Brown University with Ph.D. in Economics in 2023.
Welcome! I am Alex Yarkin, currently a postdoc at UC Davis and LISER. I graduated from Brown University with Ph.D. in Economics in 2023.
Later this year, I will be joining University College Dublin as an Assistant Professor of Economics.
Later this year, I will be joining University College Dublin as an Assistant Professor of Economics.
I work on Labor Economics, Political Economy, and Macro/Growth. My recent research focuses on:
Immigration, ICTs, and social networks
Xenophobia and populism
The political economy of growth and structural change
Religion, gender, and labor markets
My Job Market Paper documents the effects of new ICTs on immigrants’ social integration (language, citizenship), spatial segregation, and economic outcomes in the US. My other papers are (i) Rej. & Resubmit at Econometrica, (ii) Forthcoming at the American Economic Association: P&P, and (iii) Under review in top-5 / top-10 journals.
My CV is here.
News and updates on research:
New paper titled "Home-country Internet and Immigrants' Well-being" now as the IZA DP
My paper "Does the "Melting Pot" Still Melt? Internet and Immigrants' Integration" won the Best Paper Prize at the OECD Migration Conference in Paris
Our paper on "Lobbying for Industrialization" (with Dmitry Veselov) is Reject and Resubmit at Econometrica
In April 2024, I joined the IZA network as a Research Affiliate!
Our paper on "Lobbying for Industrialization" (with Dmitry Veselov) now at IZA DPs !!
New Working Paper on "Learning from the Origins", now at CESifo !!
This year (2025), I will be presenting:
"Does the "Melting Pot" Still Melt? Internet and Immigrants' Integration" - AEA Meeting (Jan 3-5, San Francisco), New Economic School (Jan 28), Hong Kong University (Jan 23), CUNEF Madrid (Jan 15), Ifo Munich (Jan 21), Rockwool Foundation Berlin Conference (March 13-14), UCLouvain (March 18), U of Manchester Global Development Institute (March 20), Duke U (virtual workshop, May 17), Barcelona Summer Forum (June 5-6)
"Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence" (with D. Veselov) - UCLA (Jan 10, 2025), U of Mannheim (Jan 30), University College Dublin (Jan 31), 3rd Workshop in Economic History (Uppsala, May 22-23)
"Demand for Diversity: Evidence from Luxembourg" (with F. Docquier and G. Peri) - UC Davis (Feb 13)
Recordings and related:
Video of my presentation at the Economics of Migration Seminar: Learning from the Origins (old version)
Video of my presentation at the AEA-2025: Does the "Melting Pot" Still Melt? Internet and Immigrants' Integration (my presentation starts at 1h:28m:30s)
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