🚨NEW PAPER: Why are Members of Congress so extreme? We conducted a 4-wave panel of thousands of voters in 27 districts during last year’s primary AND general elections to trace polarization’s roots The results challenge conventional wisdom… and suggest lessons for parties🧵👇

Since 2016, 1 notable pro-GOP shift has come from Latinos. How did Latinos shift towards a party taking strong positions against unauthorized immigration? Will Marble & I use population-based panel surveys to help answer that in a new paper: osf.io/preprints/soca… Quick 🧵

Using French matched employer-employee data, I find: 📌 High-paying jobs are concentrated in big cities 📌 Low-paying jobs are everywhere 📌 Workers access high wages in large cities as they switch from low- to high-paying jobs over time

We (Priyanka S, Mashail Malik and I) have a related finding based on CES data: starting in around 2016, immigration support among immigrants plummeted more than among any other citizenship group. Here, we plot shifts relative to people with no immigration background.

Very cool paper about how important social networks are in driving movement conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2…

Today was my last day working at Penn. I've been lucky to teach amazing students and work with great colleagues at PORES and the polisci dept. This fall, I'll join Hoover Institution as a Hoover Fellow—I'm excited to join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community of scholars there!