I do research on the role of immigration in politics and political methodology. In September 2022, I will be joining the Department of Political Science at University College London (UCL) as an Associate Professor.

recent publications

Jeremy Ferwerda, Moritz Marbach, Dominik Hangartner. 2022. Do Immigrants Move to Welfare? Evidence from Switzerland. American Journal of Political Science.

Moritz Marbach. 2021. Choosing Imputation Models. Political Analysis.

Preprint Software Data and Code

Dominik Hangartner, Elias Dinas, Moritz Marbach, Konstantinos Matakos, Dimitrios Xefteris. 2019. Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile?. American Political Science Review. Winner of the 2020 Michael Wallerstein Best Article Award by the APSA Political Economy Section.

Preprint Data and Code

recent working papers

Emigration and Populism.

Rafaela Dancygier, Sirus H. Dehdari, David D. Laitin, Moritz Marbach, Kåre Vernby.

Causal Effects, Migration and Legacy Studies.

Moritz Marbach.

The Electoral Consequences of Restricting Labor Market Access for Refugees: Evidence from Germany.

Moritz Marbach.

recent software packages

ivdesc: Profiling compliers and non-compliers for instrumental variable analysis in R and STATA
missDiag: Comparing Observed and Imputed Values under MAR and MCAR
wiesbaden: R Client to access the data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany

recent teaching & workshops

The Politics of Immigration: Covering the seminal and recent literature, we explore what social science has and has not learned about the causes and consequences of immigration.
Evidence-Informed & Data-Driven Public Policy: This course is about how governments use experimentation, big data, and machine learning to design and implement policy.
Quantitative Methods I: Introduction to quantitative social science research methods.
Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis: Identification, estimation and inference with cross-sectional and panel data.