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. 14174
published in: Economica Centenary Volume, 2022, 89 (S1), S71-S85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12182
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 431-447.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11991
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 931-958.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10384
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (4), 581 - 593
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8034
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 53-58
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7207
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 168, 109-126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6997
published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (284),19-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6974
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (8), 1177–1191
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6400
published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 517 - 520
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6133
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 99, 126-154
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5167
published in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 359 - 369
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4987
Huong Thu Le, Alison L. Booth
revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (4), 862–886
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4947
Alison L. Booth, Andrew Leigh, Elena Varganova
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (4), 547-573
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4916
Alison L. Booth, Hiau Joo Kee
published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2011, 51 (3), 254-276
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4690
published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 236-238
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4686
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 263-283
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4300
published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 599-606
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4027
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81 (2), 542 - 555
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1534
Alison L. Booth, Nick Carroll
shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 604-606
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1373
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 163-186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 984
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 251-272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 933
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2/3), 346-360
IZA Discussion Paper No. 737
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003, 57 (1), 68-91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 673
published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe, Edward Elgar 2003
IZA Discussion Paper No. 618
published in: J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (eds.), Proceedings of the 2004 ECB/CEPR Labour Market Workshop, Edward Elgar 2006
IZA Discussion Paper No. 595
summary of main results published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (494), C87-C94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 486
revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 85-123
IZA Discussion Paper No. 205
published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (480), F585-606
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