Panu Poutvaara’s main research interests are migration, public economics, and political economics. His work has been covered in titles including the Economist, New York Times, Newsweek, the Atlantic, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NPR, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the Sun, the Daily Mail, Wall Street Journal, der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, and El Español. He has  been published in the Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, amongst others. He is also member of The Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration.