Robert W. Fairlie

Institution: University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Primary Field: Education (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://rfairlie.sites.luskin.ucla.edu/

First Publication: 1996

Most Recent: 2025

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	2.02	2.35	1.51	0.67	6.56	89%
Last 10 Years	2.02	3.70	6.56	0.67	12.95	93%
All Time	8.75	30.61	18.33	2.02	59.71	98%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 38

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 39.88

Publications (38)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	Job Training, English Language Skills, and Employability: Evidence from an Experiment in Urban India	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	4
2024	Isolating the “Tech” from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer-Assisted Learning in China	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	4
2023	Racial disparities in unemployment during the COVID‐19 pandemic and recovery: The “stubborn,” the “hiccup,” and the “stall”	Economic Inquiry	C	3
2022	The evolving impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on gender inequality in the US labor market: The COVID motherhood penalty	Economic Inquiry	C	3
2021	Parental Resources and College Attendance: Evidence from Lottery Wins	American Economic Review	S	4
2021	Minority student and teaching assistant interactions in STEM	Economics of Education Review	B	4
2021	The effect of course shutouts on community college students: Evidence from waitlist cutoffs	Journal of Public Economics	A	3
2021	Automated Enforcement of Irrigation Regulations and Social Pressure for Water Conservation	Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists	A	4
2020	Early evidence of the impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment	Journal of Public Economics	A	3
2020	The impact of COVID‐19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first three months after widespread social‐distancing restrictions	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	B	1
2018	The effects of computers and acquired skills on earnings, employment and college enrollment: Evidence from a field experiment and California UI earnings records	Economics of Education Review	B	2
2017	Taking the Leap: The Determinants of Entrepreneurs Hiring Their First Employee	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	B	2
2017	The effects of computers on children's social development and school participation: Evidence from a randomized control experiment	Economics of Education Review	B	2
2015	Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy	A	3
2014	A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom	American Economic Review	S	3
2014	Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment	Economic Inquiry	C	2
2014	The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment	Journal of Labor Economics	A	3
2013	Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics	A	2
2013	Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	B	1
2013	High‐Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	B	2
2012	Academic achievement, technology and race: Experimental evidence	Economics of Education Review	B	1
2011	Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?	Journal of Health Economics	B	3
2010	Home Computers and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from the Nlsy97 and Cps*	Economic Inquiry	C	3
2010	ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration	Review of International Economics	B	2
2009	Can the "one-drop rule" tell us anything about racial discrimination? New evidence from the multiple race question on the 2000 Census	Labour Economics	B	1
2009	Determinants of business success: an examination of Asian-owned businesses in the USA	Journal of Population Economics	B	2
2007	The determinants of the global digital divide: a cross-country analysis of computer and internet penetration	Oxford Economic Papers	C	2
2007	Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital	Journal of Labor Economics	A	2
2005	The effects of home computers on school enrollment	Economics of Education Review	B	1
2003	Does immigration induce 'native flight' from public schools into private schools?	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
2003	The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment	Journal of Labor Economics	A	2
2002	Is There "White Flight" Into Private Schools? Evidence From The National Educational Longitudinal Survey	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	2
2002	Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self-Employment	Journal of Labor Economics	A	1
2001	Explaining Ethnic, Racial, and Immigrant Differences in Private School Attendance	Journal of Urban Economics	A	2
2000	Trends in Self-Employment among White and Black Men during the Twentieth Century	Journal of Human Resources	A	2
1999	The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment.	Journal of Labor Economics	A	1
1997	The Racial Unemployment Gap in Long-Run Perspective.	American Economic Review	S	2
1996	Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment Differences and Possible Explanations	Journal of Human Resources	A	2