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Ariell Zimran was William C. Bark National Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 2019-2020.
Ariell Zimran is an assistant professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He earned his PhD in economics from Northwestern University in 2016 and his BSFS (bachelor of science in foreign service) in international economics from Georgetown University in 2010. He is an economic historian whose research focuses primarily on the Age of Mass Migration and on health in the 19th-century United States. At Hoover, his main focus was studying the determinants and effects of the mass emigration of Italians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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