Matthias Doepke was impressed when he moved to America as a graduate scholar within the Nineties. Educational pay was higher than in his native Germany and college departments had been slick and organised. However what he appreciated most was the angle. “You come to the US and you’ve got this sense that you’re completely welcome and also you’re completely a part of the area people,” he says. In 2012 he grew to become a professor of economics at Northwestern College in Illinois, and in 2014 grew to become a naturalised citizen.
