Alison Booth is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London and the IZA Bonn, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Foundation Fellow of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). She was President of EALE from 2006-2008, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics.

Booth has published extensively in the fields of experimental economics and labour economics. Her most recent research includes experiments designed to investigate if culture or nature determines gender differences in observed behaviour. She has also worked in the following areas: modelling hours of market work in models with home and market production and endogenous wages; trade unions; temporary work and part-time employment; work-related training; employment protection; and academic labour markets. 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.

Booth was Editor-in-chief of Labour Economics from 1999-2004, and was the 1999 Editor of The Economic Journal Conference Volume. She appears in the 2003 Who’s Who in Economics and served as Panel Member for the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2001, Economics and Econometrics, 1999-2001. She has served on the Council of the European Society of Population Economists (ESPE) and the Executive Committees of the European Association of Labour Economists and the Royal Economic Society. She is on the Board of Editors of The Economic Record, The ILR Review and Labour Economics. She has British and Australian nationality.

In her spare time Booth writes fiction and is the author of seven novels, including (Stillwater Creek, The Indigo Sky, and A Distant Land), all published by Random House Australia. Stillwater Creek was also published by Presses de la Cite as Les Rivages du Souvenir. Her fourth novel, A Perfect Marriage, was published in 2018.

Alison Booth joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 1999.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4026
published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (558), F56 - F78
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3510
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (4), 409-422
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3020
published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (526) , F77–F99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2437
Alison L. Booth, Hiau Joo Kee
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (2), 183–208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2268
Alison L. Booth, Margi Wood
published in: Industrial Relations, 2008, 47 (1), 114-135
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1884
published in: Economica, 2009, 76 (301), 176-196
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1713
Alison L. Booth, Hiau Joo Kee
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 367-397
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1657
published as 'A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap' in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (7), 1661-1681
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1649
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 744-775
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1640
published in: Brunello, Garibaldi and Wasmer (eds.), Education and Training in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2007, Ch. 8 - 13
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