We study how expanding immigrants’ rights affects their political and social Integration by leveraging Romania’s 2007 EU accession, which granted Romanian immigrants in Italy municipal voting and residency rights. Using municipality-level event studies, we find: (1) Enfranchisement increased the election of Romanian-born councilors—especially in competitive races—despite limited changes in candidacy...

Els desastres naturals són descrits sovint com fenòmens fortuïts, aliens a la nostra voluntat. Després del devastador terratrèmol i tsunami que va sacsejar Lisboa l’any 1755 – un episodi que va matar desenes de milers de persones i gairebé va esborrar del mapa la ciutat–, els principals filòsofs europeus van...

L’Informe IEB sobre Federalisme Fiscal i Finances Públiques es publica cada any, des de 2009, amb l’objectiu d’analitzar qüestions de gran rellevància i actualitat relacionades amb el federalisme fiscal i les finances públiques.

Dominant groups worldwide have historically asserted power by constructing in public spaces monuments that glorify their narrative, vis-à-vis their opponents’. How do divisive public símbols affect the location choices of those who oppose them? I investigate this historically and today, focusing on Confederate monuments in the US South - erected...

I study how a childcare quality law affected enrollment and parental employment in Spain. The policy established the first formal requirements for nursery schools serving children aged 0 to 3. Using administrative data and regional variation in implementation, I find that the reform raised childcare quality by 0.10 standard deviations...

We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretation of a policy question—affect the variation in estimated treatment effects. A total of 146 research teams each completed the same causal inference task three times each: first with few constraints,...