Andrew Leigh

Research interests

Publications

• INTERGENERATIONAL INCOME MOBILITY IN URBAN CHINA

  Review of Income and Wealth · 2012 · 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2012.00495.x

• Does Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment*

  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2011.00664.x

• Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?

  American Economic Journal Macroeconomics · 2010 · 10.1257/mac.2.4.124

• Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations

  Economics Letters · 2010 · 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.034

• Informal care and labor market participation

  Labour Economics · 2009 · 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.11.005

• Beautiful Politicians

  Kyklos · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2009.00452.x

• Estimating teacher effectiveness from two-year changes in students’ test scores

  Economics of Education Review · 2009 · 10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.10.010

• Does the World Economy Swing National Elections?*

  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2008.00545.x

• More inequality, less social mobility

  Applied Economics Letters · 2008 · 10.1080/13504850701720197

• Born on the first of July: An (un)natural experiment in birth timing

  Journal of Public Economics · 2008 · 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.07.004

• How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality?

  The Economic Journal · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02099.x

• Intergenerational Mobility in Australia

  The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy · 2007 · 10.2202/1935-1682.1781

• Estimating returns to education using different natural experiment techniques

  Economics of Education Review · 2007 · 10.1016/j.econedurev.2006.09.004

• The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia*

  Economic Record · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2007.00412.x

• Estimating the impact of gubernatorial partisanship on policy settings and economic outcomes: A regression discontinuity approach

  European Journal of Political Economy · 2007 · 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2007.06.003

• Trust, Inequality and Ethnic Heterogeneity

  Economic Record · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00339.x

• Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox

  Australian Economic Review · 2006 · 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2006.00408.x

• Inequality and mortality: Long-run evidence from a panel of countries

  Journal of Health Economics · 2006 · 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2006.07.003

• Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets*

  Economic Record · 2006 · 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00343.x

• Pulled Away or Pushed Out? Explaining the Decline of Teacher Aptitude in the United States

  American Economic Review · 2004 · 10.1257/0002828041302073

• What Do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq?

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2003 · 10.3386/w9587

Current projects

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