Vicky Fouka

Vicky Fouka is an assistant professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Her main research focus is group identity and ingroup-outgroup relations. She studies the conditions under which outgroup members are accepted as part of the ingroup and the determinants of ingroup views towards outgroups. Major applications of her research include immigrant assimilation, the determinants of native prejudice against immigrants, the long-run effects of intergroup conflict and the interaction between ethnicity and race. She has conducted primarily empirical work in various historical and geographic contexts, with a main focus on early 20th century US and contemporary Western Europe. Her papers are published or forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Politics and Economic Journal. She received a PhD in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University in 2015.

Publications

• Recognition of Collective Victimhood and Outgroup Prejudice (with Elias Dinas and Alain Schlaepfer), Public Opinion Quarterly, 85(2), Summer 2021, pp.517-538.

• From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration (with Shom Mazumder and Marco Tabellini), Review of Economic Studies. [Paper and Online Appendix]

• Family History and Attitudes toward Outgroups: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis (with Elias Dinas and Alain Schlaepfer), Journal of Politics, 83(2), April 2021, pp.647-661. [Paper and Online Appendix]

• Secular Policies and Muslim Integration in the West: The Effects of the French Headscarf Ban (with Aala Abdelgadir), American Political Science Review, 114(3), August 2020, pp.707-723. [Paper and Online Appendix]

• Agricultural Returns to Labor and the Origins of Work Ethics (with Alain Schlaepfer), Economic Journal, 130(628), May 2020, pp.1081–1113. [Paper and Online Appendix] Winner of the 2020 Austin Robinson Prize.

• Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in US Schools after World War I, Review of Economic Studies, 87(1), January 2020, pp.204-239.

• How do Immigrants Respond to Discrimination? The Case of Germans in the US during World War I, American Political Science Review, 113(2), May 2019, pp.405-422.

Working papers

• Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the US (with Marco Tabellini) [Online Appendix] Accepted, American Political Science Review.

• Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German-Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis (with Hans-Joachim Voth) [Online Appendix]
  Revise and resubmit, American Political Science Review.

• Hate Crime Increases with Minoritized Group Rank (with Mina Cikara and Marco Tabellini)
  Revise and resubmit, Nature Human Behaviour.

• Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights (with Alvaro Calderon and Marco Tabellini)
  Revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies.

• What Works for Immigrant Integration? Lessons from the Americanization Movement