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Laura Giuliano

Laura Giuliano

Assistant Professor, Economics

(305) 284-1628
Jenkins 517G
l.giuliano@miami.edu


Research Interests

  • Race and gender inequality
  • Education
  • Minimum wages
  • Personnel economics

Selected Publications

“Manager Race and the Race of New Hires” (with David I. Levine and Jonathan Leonard), Journal of Labor Economics October 2009, Vol. 27, No. 4: 589-631.

“Customer Discrimination” (with Jonathan Leonard and David I. Levine), The Review of Economics and Statistics August 2010, Vol. 92, No. 3: 657-669.

“Racial Bias in the Manager-Employee Relationship: An Analysis of Quits, Dismissals, and Promotions at a Large Retail Firm” (with David I. Levine and Jonathan Leonard), Journal of Human Resources Winter 2011, Vol. 46, No. 1: 26-52.

“The Effects of Alcohol Use on Academic Achievement in High School” (with Ana Balsa and Michael French), Economics of Education Review February 2011, Vol. 30, No. 1: 1-15.

“Effects of the 1996 Federal Minimum Wage Law on Employment, Substitution, and the Teenage Labor Supply: Evidence from Personnel Data,” Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics.

“Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation” (with Michael Ransom), IZA Discussion Paper No. 5437, January 2011.

“Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behaviors of Friends” (with David Card), NBER Working Paper w17088, May 2011. (Revise & resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics)


Teaching and Professional Experience

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley, Haas School of Business, August 2008-May 2009
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California-Berkeley, Institute of Industrial Relations, June 2003-June 2004

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of California-Berkeley, 2003
  • M.A., International Relations, Yale University, 1995
  • B.A., Honors, Economics, University of Virginia, 1990

Specialties

  • Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics
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