Andrew Leigh

Associate Professor, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences

Australian National University

Office Phone: 02 6125 1374 Office Fax: 02 6125 0182 Mobile: 0431 706 600

Address: Economics RSSS, HC Coombs Building, ANU ACT 0200, Australia

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Blog: andrewleigh.com

Descriptive Biography

Estimating Cognitive Gaps Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians (with Xiaodong Gong)
How Has School Productivity Changed in Australia? (with Chris Ryan)
How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality? (top incomes dataset in Excel format)

Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing (with Joshua Gans), Journal of Public Economics
Health and Economic Inequality (with Christopher Jencks and Timothy Smeeding), in W. Salverda, B. Nolan, and T. Smeeding (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality, 2009
Top Incomes, in W. Salverda, B. Nolan, and T. Smeeding (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality, 2009
Bringing Home the Bacon, Public Choice
Are Ballot Order Effects Heterogeneous? (with Amy King), Social Science Quarterly
Do Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality?, National Tax Journal
Top Incomes in New Zealand 1921-2005: Understanding the Effects of Marginal Tax Rates, Migration Threat, and the Macroeconomy (with A.B. Atkinson), Review of Income and Wealth
Estimating Returns to Education Using Different Natural Experiment Techniques (with Chris Ryan), Economics of Education Review
Does Child Gender Affect Marital Status?, Journal of Population Economics
Estimating the Impact of Gubernatorial Partisanship on Policy Settings and Economic Outcomes: A Regression Discontinuity Approach, European Journal of Political Economy
How Much Do Public Schools Really Cost? Estimating the Relationship Between House Prices and School Quality (with Ian Davidoff), Economic Record

How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality?, Economic Journal
Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries (with Christopher Jencks), Journal of Health Economics
Intergenerational Mobility in Australia, Berkeley Electronic Press: Contributions in Economic Analysis and Policy
The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia (with Tony Atkinson), Economic Record
Minding the Shop: The Case of Obstetrics Conferences (with Joshua Gans and Elena Varganova), Social Science and Medicine
Earned Income Tax Credits and Labor Supply: New Evidence from a British Natural Experiment, National Tax Journal
Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?, Economic Record

Does Equality Lead to Fraternity?, Economics Letters
Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths? (with Joshua Gans), Berkeley Electronic Press: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy
Toying with Death and Taxes: Some Lessons from Down Under (with Joshua Gans), Economists' Voice
Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets (with Justin Wolfers), Economic Record
Trust, Inequality, and Ethnic Heterogeneity, Economic Record

Deriving Long-Run Inequality Series from Tax Data, Economic Record
Economic Voting and Electoral Behavior: How do Individual, Local and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?, Economics and Politics

Pulled Away or Pushed Out? Explaining the Decline of Teacher Aptitude in the United States (with Caroline Hoxby), American Economic Review

A short article outlining a range of options for Australians to Study at Harvard (see also the AAAF fellowships, Monash awards, and the Harvard loans program)

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