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European Research Council (ERC) Awards

CReAM's Director, Christian Dustmann has been awarded an ERC Advanced grant on The Migration Challenge: Labour Markets, Policy Reforms, and Social Cohesion.

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CReAM's Deputy Director, Uta Schönberg has been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant on Wage Inequality.

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Cutting refugees’ benefits results in more crime and less education

Reducing welfare benefits for refugees and immigrants is largely ineffective for increasing employment and promoting integration, and instead leads to poverty, ‘survival crime’ and less schooling, according to a new study from CReAM's Christian Dustmann and co-authors from the Rockwool Foundation.

This research received very high media attention in Denmark and has resulted in a public hearing (26.03.2019) and a presentation in the Danish Parliament.

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Discussion Paper

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Disadvantaged boys benefit most from early school years

Research by Christian Dustmann and Thomas Cornelissen finds that boys from disadvantaged backgrounds benefit most from early schooling, helping to narrow the skills gap (60-80%) with boys from high socio-economic backgrounds.

Housing costs have exacerbated income equality in Germany

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and co-authors finds that changes in housing expenditures dramatically exacerbated the rise in income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s. The research was covered on the German press.

Immigrant and disadvantaged children benefit most from early childcare

Attending universal childcare from age three significantly improves the school readiness of children from immigrant and disadvantaged family backgrounds.

Brexit

BBC Three Counties

Christian Dustmann discussing Theresa May's comments on EU workers 'jumping the queue' on BBC Three Counties.

External Research Fellow

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Email: amm223@georgetown.edu

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Anna Maria Mayda

Anna Maria Mayda has been an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University since 2003, with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the School of Foreign Service. Her research mainly focuses on the political economy of trade policy and immigration policy. A major aim of Anna Maria’s research is to understand the determinants – labor-market, welfare-state and non-economic determinants – of individual attitudes towards trade and immigration across countries ("Why Are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist Than Others?" (joint with Dani Rodrik), “Who Is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes Towards Immigrants,” and “Individual Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries” (joint with Giovanni Facchini)). Anna Maria has also worked on preferential trade agreements, the most-favored-nation clause and international trade negotiations, and the determinants of international migration flows. Anna Maria Mayda is native of Italy, where she studied Economics and Statistics as an undergraduate. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2003. Anna Maria is a Research Fellow at IZA and a Research Affiliate at CEPR.

Anna Maria Mayda joined CReAM as an external fellow in May 2006.