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Alison Booth

January 01, 1970

Alison L. Booth is an Australian labour economist and novelist who is professor of economics at the Australian National University. She is the author of six novels. These are Stillwater Creek (2010), The Indigo Sky (2011), A Distant Land (2012), A Perfect Marriage (2018), The Philosopher's Daughters (2020) and The Painting (2021).[1]

Alison Booth
Born
Alison Lee Booth

Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Academic career
InstitutionAustralian National University
Alma materLondon School of Economics
Doctoral
advisor		Tony Atkinson
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Early life and education edit

Booth was born in Melbourne and grew up in Sydney. Her father, Norman Booth, wrote an Australian war novel called Up The Dusty Track.[2]

Booth has both a Masters of Economics and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Her dissertation under Tony Atkinson was on the microeconomic behaviour of trade unions and membership.[3]

Career edit

Booth's research interests cover labour economics, behavioural economics, and the economics of gender.[4] She lectured at the University of Bristol in the 1980s and was Professor of Economics the University of Essex from 1995 to 2013.[3] She was editor-in-chief of Labour Economics from 1999 to 2004 and President of the European Association of Labour Economists from 2006 to 2008.[5] In 2017, Booth received the Distinguished Fellow Award of the Economic Society of Australia,[6] and in 2019 she was elected as fellow of the Econometric Society. She has also spent time on the Council of the European Society of Population Economists.[7] She has worked in the areas of gender and discrimination in the labour force.[3][8] Her research found that girls at single-sex schools are less risk averse than those at co-ed schools, perhaps due to the absence of "culturally driven norms and beliefs about the appropriate mode of female behaviour"[9][10] and that women take more career risks when they are supported by other women.[11] Her research has also investigated how competitive behaviour in China was affected by the Cultural Revolution[12] and she has used field data to study the impact of culture on male and female competitive behaviour in Japan[13] and in South Korea.[14] Booth has also called for blind recruiting due to her research into discrimination in callback rates for applicants with non-Anglo-Saxon sounding names.[15][16]

Fiction edit

Booth has also published short stories and six novels.[3]

The first book in Booth's trilogy, Stillwater Creek (2010), "captures a particular time in Australian history – memories of the war are still relatively fresh, communism is the new fear, and social mores are still very conservative".[17] In an interview, Booth said about the town of Jingera, "I like to think of [it] as... a stage on which a few actors play out the universal stories.[18] Translated into French (Les Rivages du Souvenir) by Helene Collon for publication by Presses de la Cite in 2011, the novel was Highly Commended in the 2011 ACT Book of the Year Award, and was published as a Select Edition in 2011 by Reader's Digest in Australasia and in the UK.[18]

Booth's second novel, The Indigo Sky (2011), is set in late 1961. Booth "uses Jingera as a microcosm for the social and political issues faced by post-war Australia. [She]... weaves the gritty issues of paedophilia, racism and postwar trauma into her first book, and the removal of Aboriginal children and bullying into her second book, but manages to maintain a light and hopeful tone".[19] The final book in the trilogy, A Distant Land (2012), is set in Jingera, Sydney and Cambodia in 1971. It focuses on "Human rights, civil liberties and war".[1]

Booth's fourth novel, A Perfect Marriage (2018), is a "cleverly structured"[20] story of middle-class "domestic violence"[21] and its long term effects.

The fifth novel, The Philosopher's Daughters, was published in the UK on 2 April 2020. The novel explores race and gender in 19th-century Australia, and has been described as "wonderfully evocative".[22]

Booth's sixth novel, The Painting, was published in the UK in July 2021. It "deftly explores the migration experience", and its author is described as "an elegant writer who excels at inhabiting the intellectual headspace of her characters".[23]

Personal life edit

Booth is married and has two daughters.[2]

Select bibliography edit

Books edit

  • Booth, Alison L. (1995). The Economics of the Trade Union. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521468398.
  • Booth, Alison L.; Snower, Dennis J. (1996). Acquiring Skills: Market Failures, Their Symptoms, and Policy Responses. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521479578.

Articles edit

  • Booth, Alison L. (1985). "The Free Rider Problem and a Social Custom Model of Trade Union Membership". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 100 (1): 253–261. doi:10.2307/1885744. JSTOR 1885744.
  • Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L. (1998). "Training and Labour Market Flexibility: Is There a Trade-off?". British Journal of Industrial Relations. 36 (4): 521–536. doi:10.1111/1467-8543.00106.
  • Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Frank, Jeff (2002). "Temporary Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends" (PDF). The Economic Journal. 112 (480): F189–F213. doi:10.1111/1468-0297.00043. hdl:10419/21049. S2CID 56458493.
  • Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Frank, Jeff (2003). "A Sticky Floors Model of Promotion, Pay, and Gender". European Economic Review. 47 (2): 295–322. doi:10.1016/s0014-2921(01)00197-0.
  • Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. (2004). "The Union Membership Wage-Premium Puzzle: Is There a Free Rider Problem?". Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 57 (3): 402–421. doi:10.1177/001979390405700305. hdl:1885/86265. S2CID 3242792.
  • Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. (2007). "Is There a Glass Ceiling Over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wage Distribution" (PDF). ILR Review. 60 (2): 163–186. doi:10.1177/001979390706000201. S2CID 8475268.
  • Booth, Alison L.; Van Ours, Jan C. (2008). "Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-Time Work Puzzle" (PDF). The Economic Journal. 118 (526): F77–F99. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02117.x. hdl:10419/91984. S2CID 17505859.
  • Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn (2010). "Education, Matching, and the Allocative Value of Romance" (PDF). Journal of the European Economic Association. 8 (4): 755–775. doi:10.1111/j.1542-4774.2010.tb00539.x. hdl:20.500.11780/1149. S2CID 198591220.
  • Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elenea (2011). "Does Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment". Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 74 (4): 547–573. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.688.2696. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0084.2011.00664.x. S2CID 14100864.
  • Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick (2012). "Choosing to Compete: How Different are Girls and Boys?". Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 81 (2): 542–555. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.187.1081. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2011.07.018. S2CID 5284701.
  • Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick (2012). "Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?". Economic Journal. 122 (668): F56–F78. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.388.57. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02480.x. S2CID 73518665.
  • Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, L.; Nolen, Patrick (2014). "Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-sex Environments Affect Their Development?" (PDF). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 99: 126–154. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2013.12.017. hdl:10784/7519. S2CID 52885972.
  • Booth, Alison; Fan, Elliott; Zhang, Dandan; Xin, Meng (2019). "Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions". The Economic Journal, 129: 734–764, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12583

Novels edit

  • Booth, Alison (2010). Stillwater Creek. Read How You Want. ISBN 9781864711257.
  • Booth, Alison (2011). The Indigo Sky. Read How You Want. ISBN 9781742742908.
  • Booth, Alison (2012). A Distant Land. Random House Australia. ISBN 9781864711943.
  • Booth, Alison (2018). A Perfect Marriage. RedDoorPublishing. ISBN 9781910453490.
  • Booth, Alison (2020). The Philosopher's Daughters.[24] RedDoor Press. ISBN 9781913062149
  • Booth, Alison (2021). The Painting.[25] RedDoor Press. ISBN 9781913062651.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Harper, Charlotte (2 June 2012). "Broader Horizons". The Canberra Times. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ^ a b Alexander, Nicole. "Alison Booth – Stepping Between Worlds". Nicole Alexander.
  3. ^ a b c d Hunter, Boyd (2014). "Conversations with Eminent Labour Economists: Alison Booth" (PDF). Australian Journal of Labour Economics. 17: 5–14.
  4. ^ "Alison Booth". esacentral.org.au. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Emeritus Prof Alison Booth made founding fellow of the EALE". Australian National University.
  6. ^ "Awards 2017".
  7. ^ "Alison L. Booth | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  8. ^ Booth, Alison (26 March 2013). "Misogyny and powerful women". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  9. ^ "Why some people are more cautious with their finances than others". The Economist. 25 January 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  10. ^ Booth, Alison (30 December 2014). "Turn back the clock: Could same-sex classes be the step backwards that help us take two steps forward?". APPS Policy Forum. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  11. ^ "Australian National University researcher Alison Booth states women take more career risks when among women". The Daily Telegraph. 29 November 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  12. ^ Booth, Alison; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan (2019). "Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions". The Economic Journal. 129 (618): 734–764. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12583. hdl:10419/149223. S2CID 32799124.
  13. ^ Booth, Alison; Yamamura, Eiji (October 2018). "Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Competitions: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan". The Review of Economics and Statistics. 100 (4): 581–593. doi:10.1162/rest_a_00715. hdl:1885/161049. ISSN 0034-6535. S2CID 57567433.
  14. ^ Booth, Alison; Lee, Jungmin (1 July 2021). "Girls' and boys' performance in competitions: What we can learn from a Korean quiz show". Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 187: 431–447. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2021.04.031. hdl:10419/196680. ISSN 0167-2681. S2CID 151007431.
  15. ^ Booth, Alison (4 March 2013). "Job hunt success is all in a name: A call for standardised anonymous application forms". APPS Policy Forum. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  16. ^ Wahlquist, Calla (23 May 2016). "Race watchdog hails blind recruiting trial to overcome bias". The Guardian.
  17. ^ Clarke, Lucy (3 January 2010). "Up the Creek in Australia of Old". The Sunday Telegraph. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  18. ^ a b Fraser, Alison (July 2011). . The Reader's Digest. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  19. ^ Clark, Blanche (22 January 2011). "Under the Milky Way". Herald Sun. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  20. ^ Goldsworthy, Kerryn (12 April 2018). "A Perfect Marriage review: Alison Booth's story of domestic abuse". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  21. ^ Booth, Alison (23 May 2018). "I couldn't stop the weekly outbursts of violence next door. Today I'd speak up". TheGuardian.com.
  22. ^ "Gentle outback drama with heart". 15 August 2020.
  23. ^ "An affecting art-theft mystery". 24 July 2021.
  24. ^ Booth, Alison. The Philosopher's Daughters.
  25. ^ Booth, Alison. The Painting.

External links edit

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Alison L Booth is an Australian labour economist and novelist who is professor of economics at the Australian National University She is the author of six novels These are Stillwater Creek 2010 The Indigo Sky 2011 A Distant Land 2012 A Perfect Marriage 2018 The Philosopher s Daughters 2020 and The Painting 2021 1 Alison BoothBornAlison Lee BoothMelbourne AustraliaNationalityAustralianAcademic careerInstitutionAustralian National UniversityAlma materLondon School of EconomicsDoctoraladvisorTony AtkinsonInformation at IDEAS RePEc Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Fiction 3 Personal life 4 Select bibliography 4 1 Books 4 2 Articles 4 3 Novels 5 References 6 External linksEarly life and education editBooth was born in Melbourne and grew up in Sydney Her father Norman Booth wrote an Australian war novel called Up The Dusty Track 2 Booth has both a Masters of Economics and a PhD from the London School of Economics Her dissertation under Tony Atkinson was on the microeconomic behaviour of trade unions and membership 3 Career editBooth s research interests cover labour economics behavioural economics and the economics of gender 4 She lectured at the University of Bristol in the 1980s and was Professor of Economics the University of Essex from 1995 to 2013 3 She was editor in chief of Labour Economics from 1999 to 2004 and President of the European Association of Labour Economists from 2006 to 2008 5 In 2017 Booth received the Distinguished Fellow Award of the Economic Society of Australia 6 and in 2019 she was elected as fellow of the Econometric Society She has also spent time on the Council of the European Society of Population Economists 7 She has worked in the areas of gender and discrimination in the labour force 3 8 Her research found that girls at single sex schools are less risk averse than those at co ed schools perhaps due to the absence of culturally driven norms and beliefs about the appropriate mode of female behaviour 9 10 and that women take more career risks when they are supported by other women 11 Her research has also investigated how competitive behaviour in China was affected by the Cultural Revolution 12 and she has used field data to study the impact of culture on male and female competitive behaviour in Japan 13 and in South Korea 14 Booth has also called for blind recruiting due to her research into discrimination in callback rates for applicants with non Anglo Saxon sounding names 15 16 Fiction edit Booth has also published short stories and six novels 3 The first book in Booth s trilogy Stillwater Creek 2010 captures a particular time in Australian history memories of the war are still relatively fresh communism is the new fear and social mores are still very conservative 17 In an interview Booth said about the town of Jingera I like to think of it as a stage on which a few actors play out the universal stories 18 Translated into French Les Rivages du Souvenir by Helene Collon for publication by Presses de la Cite in 2011 the novel was Highly Commended in the 2011 ACT Book of the Year Award and was published as a Select Edition in 2011 by Reader s Digest in Australasia and in the UK 18 Booth s second novel The Indigo Sky 2011 is set in late 1961 Booth uses Jingera as a microcosm for the social and political issues faced by post war Australia She weaves the gritty issues of paedophilia racism and postwar trauma into her first book and the removal of Aboriginal children and bullying into her second book but manages to maintain a light and hopeful tone 19 The final book in the trilogy A Distant Land 2012 is set in Jingera Sydney and Cambodia in 1971 It focuses on Human rights civil liberties and war 1 Booth s fourth novel A Perfect Marriage 2018 is a cleverly structured 20 story of middle class domestic violence 21 and its long term effects The fifth novel The Philosopher s Daughters was published in the UK on 2 April 2020 The novel explores race and gender in 19th century Australia and has been described as wonderfully evocative 22 Booth s sixth novel The Painting was published in the UK in July 2021 It deftly explores the migration experience and its author is described as an elegant writer who excels at inhabiting the intellectual headspace of her characters 23 Personal life editBooth is married and has two daughters 2 Select bibliography editBooks edit Booth Alison L 1995 The Economics of the Trade Union Cambridge University Press ISBN 9780521468398 Booth Alison L Snower Dennis J 1996 Acquiring Skills Market Failures Their Symptoms and Policy Responses Cambridge University Press ISBN 9780521479578 Articles edit Booth Alison L 1985 The Free Rider Problem and a Social Custom Model of Trade Union Membership Quarterly Journal of Economics 100 1 253 261 doi 10 2307 1885744 JSTOR 1885744 Arulampalam Wiji Booth Alison L 1998 Training and Labour Market Flexibility Is There a Trade off British Journal of Industrial Relations 36 4 521 536 doi 10 1111 1467 8543 00106 Booth Alison L Francesconi Marco Frank Jeff 2002 Temporary Jobs Stepping Stones or Dead Ends PDF The Economic Journal 112 480 F189 F213 doi 10 1111 1468 0297 00043 hdl 10419 21049 S2CID 56458493 Booth Alison L Francesconi Marco Frank Jeff 2003 A Sticky Floors Model of Promotion Pay and Gender European Economic Review 47 2 295 322 doi 10 1016 s0014 2921 01 00197 0 Booth Alison L Bryan Mark L 2004 The Union Membership Wage Premium Puzzle Is There a Free Rider Problem Industrial and Labor Relations Review 57 3 402 421 doi 10 1177 001979390405700305 hdl 1885 86265 S2CID 3242792 Arulampalam Wiji Booth Alison L Bryan Mark L 2007 Is There a Glass Ceiling Over Europe Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wage Distribution PDF ILR Review 60 2 163 186 doi 10 1177 001979390706000201 S2CID 8475268 Booth Alison L Van Ours Jan C 2008 Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness The Part Time Work Puzzle PDF The Economic Journal 118 526 F77 F99 doi 10 1111 j 1468 0297 2007 02117 x hdl 10419 91984 S2CID 17505859 Booth Alison Coles Melvyn 2010 Education Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance PDF Journal of the European Economic Association 8 4 755 775 doi 10 1111 j 1542 4774 2010 tb00539 x hdl 20 500 11780 1149 S2CID 198591220 Booth Alison L Leigh Andrew Varganova Elenea 2011 Does Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups Evidence from a Field Experiment Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 74 4 547 573 CiteSeerX 10 1 1 688 2696 doi 10 1111 j 1468 0084 2011 00664 x S2CID 14100864 Booth Alison L Nolen Patrick 2012 Choosing to Compete How Different are Girls and Boys Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 81 2 542 555 CiteSeerX 10 1 1 187 1081 doi 10 1016 j jebo 2011 07 018 S2CID 5284701 Booth Alison L Nolen Patrick 2012 Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour Does Nurture Matter Economic Journal 122 668 F56 F78 CiteSeerX 10 1 1 388 57 doi 10 1111 j 1468 0297 2011 02480 x S2CID 73518665 Booth Alison L Cardona Sosa L Nolen Patrick 2014 Gender Differences in Risk Aversion Do Single sex Environments Affect Their Development PDF Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 99 126 154 doi 10 1016 j jebo 2013 12 017 hdl 10784 7519 S2CID 52885972 Booth Alison Fan Elliott Zhang Dandan Xin Meng 2019 Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete The Role of Culture and Institutions The Economic Journal 129 734 764 https doi org 10 1111 ecoj 12583 Novels edit Booth Alison 2010 Stillwater Creek Read How You Want ISBN 9781864711257 Booth Alison 2011 The Indigo Sky Read How You Want ISBN 9781742742908 Booth Alison 2012 A Distant Land Random House Australia ISBN 9781864711943 Booth Alison 2018 A Perfect Marriage RedDoorPublishing ISBN 9781910453490 Booth Alison 2020 The Philosopher s Daughters 24 RedDoor Press ISBN 9781913062149 Booth Alison 2021 The Painting 25 RedDoor Press ISBN 9781913062651 References edit a b Harper Charlotte 2 June 2012 Broader Horizons The Canberra Times a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty url help a b Alexander Nicole Alison Booth Stepping Between Worlds Nicole Alexander a b c d Hunter Boyd 2014 Conversations with Eminent Labour Economists Alison Booth PDF Australian Journal of Labour Economics 17 5 14 Alison Booth esacentral org au Retrieved 27 July 2021 Emeritus Prof Alison Booth made founding fellow of the EALE Australian National University Awards 2017 Alison L Booth IZA Institute of Labor Economics www iza org Retrieved 8 December 2021 Booth Alison 26 March 2013 Misogyny and powerful women Al Jazeera Retrieved 3 December 2016 Why some people are more cautious with their finances than others The Economist 25 January 2014 Retrieved 3 December 2016 Booth Alison 30 December 2014 Turn back the clock Could same sex classes be the step backwards that help us take two steps forward APPS Policy Forum Retrieved 3 December 2016 Australian National University researcher Alison Booth states women take more career risks when among women The Daily Telegraph 29 November 2011 Retrieved 3 December 2016 Booth Alison Fan Elliott Meng Xin Zhang Dandan 2019 Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete The Role of Culture and Institutions The Economic Journal 129 618 734 764 doi 10 1111 ecoj 12583 hdl 10419 149223 S2CID 32799124 Booth Alison Yamamura Eiji October 2018 Performance in Mixed Sex and Single Sex Competitions What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan The Review of Economics and Statistics 100 4 581 593 doi 10 1162 rest a 00715 hdl 1885 161049 ISSN 0034 6535 S2CID 57567433 Booth Alison Lee Jungmin 1 July 2021 Girls and boys performance in competitions What we can learn from a Korean quiz show Journal of Economic Behavior amp Organization 187 431 447 doi 10 1016 j jebo 2021 04 031 hdl 10419 196680 ISSN 0167 2681 S2CID 151007431 Booth Alison 4 March 2013 Job hunt success is all in a name A call for standardised anonymous application forms APPS Policy Forum Retrieved 3 December 2016 Wahlquist Calla 23 May 2016 Race watchdog hails blind recruiting trial to overcome bias The Guardian Clarke Lucy 3 January 2010 Up the Creek in Australia of Old The Sunday Telegraph a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty url help a b Fraser Alison July 2011 Meet Alison Booth professor of economics and novelist The Reader s Digest Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 15 January 2015 Clark Blanche 22 January 2011 Under the Milky Way Herald Sun a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty url help Goldsworthy Kerryn 12 April 2018 A Perfect Marriage review Alison Booth s story of domestic abuse The Sydney Morning Herald Booth Alison 23 May 2018 I couldn t stop the weekly outbursts of violence next door Today I d speak up TheGuardian com Gentle outback drama with heart 15 August 2020 An affecting art theft mystery 24 July 2021 Booth Alison The Philosopher s Daughters Booth Alison The Painting External links editANU Profile Website http legacy iza org en webcontent 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