Alison Booth

Alison Booth is an Emeritus Professor of Economics and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, and the Institute for Employment Research in Nürnberg. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Founding Fellow of the European Association of Labour Economists, and recipient of the Distinguished Fellow Award from the Economic Society of Australia. Alison was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association in 2017. While her research interests broadly span labour economics and experimental economics, she is also interested in cultural influences on economic preferences and their impact on economic outcomes, the economics of gender, and imperfect competition and the labour market. Much of Alison’s work has been funded by grants provided by the Australian Research Council Discovery Program, the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, and the Economic and Social Research Council. Alison has published in internationally renowned outlets including Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economics Association, European Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation. Alison’s book, The Economics of the Trade Union, was a Princeton University Economics Book of the Year in 1996.