Andrew Leigh

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Australian National University

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Andrew Leigh is a member of the Australian House of Representatives. Prior to his election in August 2010, he was a Professor in the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University, working in the fields of labour economics, public economics, population economics, and the economics of elections.

Andrew received a PhD from Harvard University in 2004. He has published over 60 papers, including articles in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, the Economic Journal, Economics Letters, and the Journal of Health Economics. His books include Disconnected (2010), Battlers and Billionaires (2013), The Economics of Just About Everything (2014), The Luck of Politics (2015), Choosing Openness: Why Global Engagement is Best for Australia (2017) and Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World (2018).

Andrew is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and in 2011 received the 'Young Economist Award', a prize given every two years by the Economics Society of Australia to the best Australian economist under 40.

Andrew is a keen marathon runner, and hosts a podcast titled "The Good Life", which is available on Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes). He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2010.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6156
How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant
Joshua S. Gans, Andrew Leigh
published online in: Economic Record, [Early View]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4995
Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
Andrew Leigh, Christine Neill
published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2010, 12 (2), 462-508
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4960
Who Benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit? Incidence among Recipients, Coworkers and Firms
Andrew Leigh
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4947
Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Alison L. Booth, Andrew Leigh, Elena Varganova
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (4), 547-573
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4937
The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century
Tony Atkinson, Andrew Leigh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4920
Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?
Dan Andrews, Christopher Jencks, Andrew Leigh
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11, article 6
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4811
Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China
Cathy Honge Gong, Andrew Leigh, Xin Meng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4808
Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?
Paul J. Burke, Andrew Leigh
published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (4), 124-157
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4690
Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations
Alison L. Booth, Andrew Leigh
published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 236-238
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2538
Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals
Timothy J. Hatton, Andrew Leigh
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 389-419
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