Biographical Details

Alison Booth is Professor of Economics and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London and of the IZA Bonn. She was appointed as Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 1999. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1984. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Booth was President of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) for 3 years from 2006-2008. She was head of the ANU’s Economics Program RSSS for the period 2008-2009, and led its integration into the new Research School of Economics that started in 2010.  Booth is on the Council of the European Society of Population Economics,  was Editor-in-chief of Labour Economics from 1999-2004, and was the 1999 Editor of The Economic Journal Conference Volume, and the 1998 Co-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 also served on the Executive Committees of the European Association of Labour Economists (1996-2002) and the Royal Economic Society 1998-2002 and as an elected member (1997-2002) of the Council of the Royal Economic Society. She is a citizen of Australia and Britain.

Booth has worked on a number of labour market and behavioural economics topics which can be seen here. 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 is a contributor to the economics section of the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2001) Oxford: Elsevier Science Limited. She has received numerous research grants, including from the Australian Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, and the Economic and Social Research Council.