Andrew Leigh

Global rank #2579 97%

Institution: Parliament of Australia, House of Representatives

Primary Field: Education (weighted toward more recent publications)

First Publication: 2004

Most Recent: 2022

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	Total
Last 5 Years	0.00	0.00	1.01	1.51
Last 10 Years	0.00	0.00	1.68	2.43
All Time	1.01	3.69	19.44	34.10

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 25

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 30.80

Publications (25)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2022	“Beauty too rich for use”: Billionaires’ assets and attractiveness	Labour Economics	B	2
2022	The race that stopped a nation: lessons from Australia’s Covid vaccine failures	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	C	2
2020	Frontiers of mobility: Was Australia 1870–2017 a more socially mobile society than England?	Explorations in Economic History	B	3
2019	Inequality and market concentration, when shareholding is more skewed than consumption	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	C	4
2014	Crime and Mental Well-Being	Journal of Human Resources	A	3
2012	Does Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics	B	3
2012	Teacher pay and teacher aptitude	Economics of Education Review	B	1
2011	Immigrants assimilate as communities, not just as individuals	Journal of Population Economics	B	2
2011	Which children benefit from non-parental care?	Economics of Education Review	B	2
2011	Can national infrastructure spending reduce local unemployment? Evidence from an Australian roads program	Economics Letters	C	2
2010	Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations	Economics Letters	C	2
2010	Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?	American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics	A	2
2010	Estimating teacher effectiveness from two-year changes in students' test scores	Economics of Education Review	B	1
2010	Informal care and labor market participation	Labour Economics	B	1
2009	Born on the first of July: An (un)natural experiment in birth timing	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
2009	Beautiful Politicians	Kyklos	C	2
2009	Does the World Economy Swing National Elections?*	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics	B	1
2009	Inequality in Indonesia: What can we learn from top incomes?	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
2009	Does child gender affect marital status? Evidence from Australia	Journal of Population Economics	B	1
2008	Materialism on the March: From conspicuous leisure to conspicuous consumption?	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics	B	2
2008	Estimating returns to education using different natural experiment techniques	Economics of Education Review	B	2
2008	Bringing home the bacon: an empirical analysis of the extent and effects of pork-barreling in Australian politics	Public Choice	B	1
2007	Inequality and mortality: Long-run evidence from a panel of countries	Journal of Health Economics	B	2
2006	Does equality lead to fraternity?	Economics Letters	C	1
2004	Pulled Away or Pushed Out? Explaining the Decline of Teacher Aptitude in the United States	American Economic Review	S	2