Keynote speakers

Leah Platt Boustan

Leah Platt Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University and the Director of the Industrial Relations Section. Professor Boustan is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-directs its Development of the American Economy Program. Her research focuses on the economic history and labor economics of immigration, including the impacts of the Great Black Migration and European migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is the author of several books on migration, including Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 2016) and Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs, 2022). Leah Boustan has published the results of her research in the most prestigious journals in economics, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Economic Literature, among others. She is co-editor at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2012 and the IZA Young Labor Economist Award in 2019.

 https://lboustan.scholar.princeton.edu

Jan Stuhler

Jan Stuhler is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He is also affiliated with the Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration in London, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).  His research interests lie in labor and public economics, with a particular focus on intergenerational mobility and migration. Some of his notable works include studies on labor supply shocks, the impact of immigration on local labor markets, and biases in standard measures of intergenerational income dependence.  He has published widely on these topics, including articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Economic Journal for instance. Jan Stuhler is currently a co-editor at Labour Economics and a panel member at Economic Policy. 

https://janstuhler.com

Marco Tabellini 

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. Marco  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. He has published the results of his research in the Review of Economic Studies, Science Advances, Journal of Economic Literature, American Political Science Review, or  The Economic Journal for instance.