
Mackenzie Alston, Ph.D.
@mackenziealsto4
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Research Interests: Labor Econ, Education, Experimental/Behavioral Economics, Race and Gender
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U of IL Institute of Government & Public Affairs recently published a policy spotlight on a study by Julian Reif and Siho Park detailing the uneven patterns of excess deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic in regional and political demographics across the US. Read more on their findings here: igpa.uillinois.edu/wp-content/upl…







New paper out in Management Science! 🥳 We test the impact of several light touch approaches on closing race & gender gaps in job applications in a field experiment w/a Fortune-500 firm. With Jeffrey A Flory Andreas Leibbrandt, Christina Rott. 8 years after the idea was born😳







My mom (Myra George) is not an economist, but she loves econ as much as I do. One example: She attended a talk by Raj Chetty today and sent me pictures of the two of them together! Thankful for having such a cool and supportive mom!