Michael Vlassopoulos

Research Fellow

University of Southampton

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Michael Vlassopoulos is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Southampton. He obtained his PhD in economics in 2007 from the University of British Columbia, in Canada. His research area is applied microeconomics with particular interest in behavioral, labor, development, and public economics. Recent research focuses on topics such as racial and ethnic discrimination, mental health, social and educational integration of refugees, network and spillover effects in education.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2014.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17593
The Power of Language: Educational and Mental Health Impacts of Language Training for Refugee Children
Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17171
"Should CEOs' Salaries Be Capped?" A Survey Experiment on Limitarian Preferences
João V. Ferreira, Stratos Ramoglou, Foivos Savva, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17113
Spillovers in Criminal Networks: Evidence from Co-offender Deaths
Matthew J. Lindquist, Eleonora Patacchini, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16998
Identifying Peer Effects in Networks with Unobserved Effort and Isolated Students
Aristide Houndetoungan, Cristelle Kouame, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16123
Incentivizing Team Leaders: A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills
Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15920
Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-Tech Solution: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh
Liang Choon Wang, Michael Vlassopoulos, Asadul Islam, Hashibul Hassan
published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 2 (3), 562–601
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15899
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Using Local Ambassadors: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Indonesia
Asadul Islam, Gita Kusnadi, Jahen Rezki, Armand Sim, Giovanni van Empel, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104683
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15462
When Reality Bites: Local Deaths and Vaccine Take-up
Corrado Giulietti, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104463
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14786
Improving Women's Mental Health during a Pandemic
Michael Vlassopoulos, Abu Siddique, Tabassum Rahman, Debayan Pakrashi, Asadul Islam, Firoz Ahmed
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16(2), 422-55.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14557
Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness: Impact on School Attendance of Refugee Children
Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, August 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14260
Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model
Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13995
Stigma and Misconceptions in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Field Experiment in India
Asadul Islam, Debayan Pakrashi, Michael Vlassopoulos, Liang Choon Wang
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 278, 113966
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13680
Peers, Gender, and Long-Term Depression
Corrado Giulietti, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 144, 104084, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13269
Market Competition and Discrimination
Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 152, 104361, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12996
Class Size Effects in Higher Education: Differences across STEM and Non-STEM Fields
Elif Kara, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 82, 102104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12858
Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon
Michalis Drouvelis, Bilal Malaeb, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 187, 176-191.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11720
When the Market Drives You Crazy: Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents
Corrado Giulietti, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102245
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11674
Paying for What Kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs
Daniel Jones, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
substantially revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 480-507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11595
Voting as a War of Attrition
Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 167, 104-121, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10682
Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130(627), 793-821
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10393
Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation: Experimental Evidence
Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(4), 687-712, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9336
An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay
Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 140, 23-26.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9290
Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US
Corrado Giulietti, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published as 'Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the United States' in: Journal of the European Economic Association. 2019, 17 (1), 165 - 204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8442
Concern for Relative Standing and Deception
Spyros Galanis, Michael Vlassopoulos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8238
Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees
Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4:11, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7995
Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding
Victor Naroditskiy, Sebastian Stein, Mirco Tonin, Long Tran-Thanh, Michael Vlassopoulos, Nicholas R. Jennings
published in: Proceedings of the Second AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014, 171-183
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7523
Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed
Sotiris Georganas, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 117, 223-232.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7294
Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving
Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 66, 112-118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6725
Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 96, 120-134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6716
Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
substantially revised version published as 'Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment' in: Management Science, 2015, 61(8), 1795-1811
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6388
Experimental Evidence of Self-Image Concerns as Motivation for Giving
Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 19-27
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5461
An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving
Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Theory and Decision, 2014, 76(1), 47-67
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