Dominik Hangartner
Dominik Hangartner is a professor of public policy, affiliate faculty at the ETH AI Center, and faculty co-director of the Stanford-Zurich external page Immigration Policy Lab.
Dominik received his Ph.D. in social science from the University of Bern in 2011. In the same year, he joined the London School of Economics as an assistant professor and was promoted to tenured associate professor in 2013. He joined ETH Zurich in 2017, and was promoted to full professor at the end of 2020.
Dominik combines field work and statistics to evaluate and design migration and integration policies. His research has been published in over 35 articles, many in leading journals such as the American Political Science Review, Nature, and Science. He has received several awards and grants including the external page Philip Leverhulme Prize, the external page National Latsis Prize, and an external page ERC Starting Grant.
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Research highlights
external page Europeans' support for refugees of varying background is stable over time (with Kirk Bansak and Jens Hainmueller) Nature (2023)
external page Monitoring hiring discrimination through online recruitment platforms (with Daniel Kopp and Michael Siegenthaler) Nature (2021). Nature Cover
external page Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile? (with Elias Dinas, Moritz Marbach, Konstantinos Matakos, and Dimitrios Xefteris) American Political Science Review (2019).
external page Does Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Naturalization Decisions in Switzerland (with Jens Hainmueller) American Journal of Political Science (2019).
external page Ethnic networks can foster the economic integration of refugees (with Linna Martén and Jens Hainmueller) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019).
external page Multidimensional measure of immigrant integration (with David D. Laitin, Lucila Figueroa, Rachel M. Gillum, Jens Hainmueller and Niklas Harder) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018).
external page Improving refugee integration through data-driven algorithmic assignment (with Kirk Bansak, Jeremy Ferwerda, Jens Hainmueller, Andrea Dillion, Duncan Lawrence, and Jeremy Weinstein) Science (2018).
external page Catalyst or Crown: Does Naturalization Promote the Long-Term Social Integration of Immigrants? (with Jens Hainmueller and Giuseppe Pietrantuono) American Political Science Review (2017).
external page How Economic, Humanitarian, and Religious Concerns Shape European Attitudes toward Asylum-Seekers (with Kirk Bansak and Jens Hainmueller) Science (2016).
external page Does Compulsory Voting Increase Support for Leftist Policy? (with Michael Bechtel and Lukas Schmid) American Journal of Political Science (2016).
external page Naturalization Fosters the Long-Term Political Integration of Immigrants (with Jens Hainmueller and Giuseppe Pietrantuono) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015).
external page Validating vignette and conjoint survey experiments against real-world behavior (with Jens Hainmueller and Teppei Yamamoto) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015).
external page Who Gets a Swiss Passport? A Natural Experiment in Immigrant Discrimination (with Jens Hainmueller) American Political Science Review (2013).
All Publications
external page Europeans' support for refugees of varying background is stable over time (with Kirk Bansak and Jens Hainmueller) Nature (2023)
external page Immigration and inequality: the role of politics and policies(with Judith Spirig) IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities (2023)
external page The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their Migration Intentions (with Ala' Alrababa'h, Daniel Masterson, Marine Casalis and Jeremy Weinstein) British Journal of Political Science (2023)
external page Do Immigrants Move to Welfare? Subnational Evidence from Switzerland (with Jeremy Ferwerda and Moritz Marbach) American Journal of Political Science (2023)
external page Human-in-the-Loop Hate Speech Classification in a Multilingual Context (with Ana Kotarcic, Fabrizio Gilardi, Selina Kurer and Karsten Donnay) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2022)
external page Learning from Null Effects: A Bottom-Up Approach (with Ala’ Alrababa’h, Scott Williamson, Andrea Dillon, Jens Hainmueller, Michael Hotard, David D. Laitin, Duncan Lawrence and Jeremy Weinstein) Political Analysis (2022)
external page Empathy-based Counterspeech Can Reduce Racist Hate Speech in a Social Media Field Experiment (with Gloria Gennaro, Sary Alasiri, Nicholas Bahrich, Alexandra Bornhoft, Joseph Boucher, Buket Buse Demirci, Laurenz Derksen, Aldo Hall, Matthias Jochum, Maria Murias Munoz, Marc Richter, Franziska Vogel, Salomé Wittwer, Felix Wüthrich, Fabrizio Gilardi and Karsten Donnay) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021)
external page Monitoring hiring discrimination through online recruitment platforms (with Daniel Kopp and Michael Siegenthaler) Nature (2021). Nature Cover
external page Using Eye-Tracking to Understand Decision-Making in Conjoint Experiments (with Libby Jenke, Kirk Bansak and Jens Hainmueller) Political Analysis (2021).
external page Attitudes toward Migrants in a Highly Impacted Economy: Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan (with Ala’ Alrababa’h, Andrea Dillon, Scott Williamson, Jens Hainmueller and Jeremy Weinstein) Comparative Political Studies (2021).
external page Profiling Compliers and Noncompliers for Instrumental-Variable Analysis (with Moritz Marbach) Political Analysis (2020).
external page The Effect of Citizenship Increases on the Long-Term Earnings of Marginalized Immigrants: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Switzerland (with Jens Hainmueller and Dalston Ward) Science Advances (2019).
external page Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile? (with Elias Dinas, Moritz Marbach, Konstantinos Matakos, and Dimitrios Xefteris) American Political Science Review (2019).
external page Does Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Naturalization Decisions in Switzerland (with Jens Hainmueller) American Journal of Political Science (2019).
external page Ethnic networks can foster the economic integration of refugees (with Linna Martén and Jens Hainmueller) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019).
external page Waking Up the Golden Dawn: Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Increase Support for Extreme-Right Parties? (with Elias Dinas, Konstantinos Matakos, and Dimitrios Xefteris) Political Analysis (2019).
external page Multidimensional measure of immigrant integration (with David D. Laitin, Lucila Figueroa, Rachel M. Gillum, Jens Hainmueller and Niklas Harder) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018).
external page Compulsory Voting, Habit Formation, and Political Participation (with Michael Bechtel and Lukas Schmid) Review of Economics and Statistics (2018).
external page The long-term impact of employment bans on the economic integration of refugees (with Moritz Marbach and Jens Hainmueller) Science Advances (2018).
external page Improving refugee integration through data-driven algorithmic assignment (with Kirk Bansak, Jeremy Ferwerda, Jens Hainmueller, Andrea Dillion, Duncan Lawrence, and Jeremy Weinstein) Science (2018).
external page Europeans support a proportional allocation of asylum seekers (with Kirk Bansak and Jens Hainmueller) Nature Human Behavior (2017).
external page Catalyst or Crown: Does Naturalization Promote the Long-Term Social Integration of Immigrants? (with Jens Hainmueller and Giuseppe Pietrantuono) American Political Science Review (2017).
external page Open/Closed List and Party Choice: Experimental Evidence from the U.K. (with Jack Blumenau, Andrew Eggers, and Simon Hix) British Journal of Political Science (2017).
external page How Economic, Humanitarian, and Religious Concerns Shape European Attitudes toward Asylum-Seekers (with Kirk Bansak and Jens Hainmueller) Science (2016).
external page When lives are put on hold: Lengthy asylum processes decrease employment among refugees (with Jens Hainmueller and Duncan Lawrence) Science Advances (2016).
external page Examination of the Synthetic Control Method for Evaluating Health Policies with Multiple Treated Units (with Noemi Kreif, Richard Grief, Alex Turner, Sylviya Nikolova, and Matt Sutton) Health Economics (2016).
external page Does Compulsory Voting Increase Support for Leftist Policy? (with Michael Bechtel and Lukas Schmid) American Journal of Political Science (2016).
external page Naturalization Fosters the Long-Term Political Integration of Immigrants (with Jens Hainmueller and Giuseppe Pietrantuono) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015).
external page Reality Bites: The Limits of Framing Effects for Salient and Contested Policy Issues (with Michael Bechtel, Jens Hainmueller, and Marc Helbling) Political Science Research and Methods (2015).
external page Validating vignette and conjoint survey experiments against real-world behavior (with Jens Hainmueller and Teppei Yamamoto). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015).
external page Who Gets a Swiss Passport? A Natural Experiment in Immigrant Discrimination (with Jens Hainmueller) American Political Science Review (2013).
"Religious reasons in the public sphere: an empirical study of religious actors' argumentative patterns in Swiss direct-democratic campaigns" (with André Bächtiger, Judith Könemann, Ansgar Jödicke) European Political Science Review (2013).
external page Circular Data in Political Science and How to Handle It (with Jeff Gill) Political Analysis (2010).
"Comparing Candidates and Citizens in the Ideological Space" (with Philipp Leimgruber and Lucas Leemann) Swiss Political Science Review (2010).
"When Political Philosophy Meets Political Science. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in the Study of a Philosophical Ideal" (with André Bächtiger) Political Studies (2010).
"Die Untersuchung verdeckter Populationen: Eine Capture-Recapture Studie mit Heroinabhängigen" [Investigating Hidden Populations: A Capture-Recapture Study with Heroin Addicts] (with Thomas Gautschi) Zeitschrift für Soziologie (2010).
"Zwölf Jahre nach Letten. Die Konsumenten harter Drogen in den Zürcher Kontakt- und Anlaufstellen" [Twelve Years after Needlepark. A Survey of Heroin Addicts in Zurich] (with Thomas Gautschi) Swiss Journal of Sociology (2009).
"Patterns of Parliamentary Discourse: How 'Deliberative' are German Legislative Debates?" (with André Bächtiger, Pia Hess, and Céline Fraefel) German Politics (2008).
"Mixing Habermas with Bayes: Methodological and Theoretical Advances in the Study of Deliberation" (with André Bächtiger, Rita Grünenfelder, and Marco Steenbergen) Swiss Political Science Review (2007).
"Traffic Accidents in Switzerland: How Hazardous Are 'High Risk' Groups? An Analysis on Basis of Police Protocols" (with Aline Bütikofer and Thomas Gautschi) Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (2007).
"Social Networks and Labour Market Outcomes: The Non-Monetary Benefits of Social Capital" (with Axel Franzen) European Sociological Review (2006).
"Size Does Matter: Körpergrösse, Humankapital und Einkommen" [Size Does Matter: Body Height, Human Capital, and Income] (with Thomas Gautschi) Soziale Welt (2006).
"Soziale Netzwerke und beruflicher Erfolg" [Social Networks and Occupational Success] (with Axel Franzen) Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (2005).