Professor Alison Booth
| Position(s): | Professor |
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| Email: | alison.booth@anu.edu.au |
| Phone: | Ext. 53285 (+61) 2 612 53285 (+61) 2 612 53285 |
| Fax: | (+61) 2 612 50182 |
| Office: | Room 2064B LF Crisp Building (26) |
| Mailing Address: | |
| Research School of Economics ANU College of Business and Economics LF Crisp Building 26 The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia | |
Curriculum Vitae (PDF 54KB)
Biography
Alison Booth, who obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1984, is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London and of the IZA Bonn. Booth was President of the European Association of Labour Economists from 2006-2008, headed the ANU's Economics Program RSSS for the period 2008-2009, and was Editor-in-chief of Labour Economics from 1999-2004.Booth has worked on a number of labour market and behavioural economics topics. Her book, The Economics of the Trade Union, Cambridge University Press (reprinted 2002) was one of Princeton University Economics Book of the Year in 1996. She has received research grants from the Australian Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, and the Economic and Social Research Council.
Disciplines & research interests
- Economics
- Economics of Education
- Labour Economics
- Experimental Economics
- Development Economics
- Behavioural Economics
Research Papers
- Salience, Risky Choices and Gender (CEPR Discussion Paper Series - February 2012)
- The Economic Behavior of Trade Unions (CEPR Discussion Paper Series - October 2012)
- Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University (CEPR Discussion Paper Series - February 2013)
- ‘Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?’. (October 2012)
- ‘Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment,’ (October 2012)
- ‘Choosing to compete: How different are girls and boys?’ (October 2012)
Further information
For downloadable research papers and publications see:http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbo47.htmlFor a list of publications since 2002 see: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/booth-al
