I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University. I am also a member of the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) network, a faculty affiliate with the Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) at ETH Zurich and Stanford University, a research fellow at the BAFFI Center on Economics, Finance and Regulation at Bocconi University, and an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Immigration Policy Lab, ETH Zurich. I received my Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 2021.

My primary research is in comparative politics and international relations with a focus on immigration and refugees and political violence. To study these topics, my research combines fieldwork with observational, experimental, and computational methods.

My research has been published or is forthcoming in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Political Science Review, the Yale Law Journal, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Political Analysis, International Studies Quarterly, and Political Science Research and Methods. It has also been covered in several media and popular outlets, including Foreign Policy, the Associated Press, Freakonomics, BBC Arabic, The Economist, The Times, The Daily Mail, Al Jazeera, Spiegel Online, Le Figaro, la Republica, and Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

You can contact me via email at ala.alrababah [at] unibocconi.it