Michele Belot
Michèle Belot is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and at the School of Industrial Labor Relations. She held previous appointments in the United Kingdom (University of Edinburgh, Oxford University and the University of Essex) and at the European University Institute. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from Tilburg University (CentER) in the Netherlands in 2003. Her research interests are broadly in applied microeconomics, with a special interest in experimental work in areas related to labur, health and education. She has published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Economic Journal Micro, the American Economic Journal Macro, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and The Economic Journal. She has served as President of the European Association of Labour Economists from 2020 to 2023.
Her recent work consists of designing and testing interventions using randomized controlled trials, in the domains of health and job search. In the domain of health, her work focuses on interventions designed to encourage individuals to adopt healthier behaviors. In the domain of job search, the interventions are aimed at providing relevant information to job seekers.
She is currently co-directing the Labor Dynamics Institute, and is the co-founder of the Cornell Job Search Lab. The Cornell Job Search Lab aims at leading experimental research targeting job search. The goal is to pioneer the next generation of work aimed at better understanding how to form better matches and navigate structural changes.
As part of the Job Search Lab, Prof. Belot is currently running a study on online job search. You can find more information here.
Other expertise
Publications
Do the Long-Term Unemployed Benefit from Automated Occupational Advice during Online Job Search? (2025), Michele Belot, Philipp Kircher and Paul Muller, Economic Journal
Eliciting time preferences when income and consumption vary: Theory, validation & application to job search (2025), Michele Belot, Philipp Kircher and Paul Muller, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 17 (1), 130-170
Changing Dietary Habits Early in Life: A Field Experiment with Low-Income Families, (2024), Michele Belot, Noemi Berlin, Jonathan James and Valeria Skafida, Journal of Political Economy, Micro 2 (4), 707-746
Measuring the Quality of a Match (2024), Michele Belot, Xiaoying Liu and Vaios Triantafyllou, Labour Economics 89, 102568.Conference volume (related to Presidential Address at the EALE conference 2024)
Go Vegan? Prejudice, (Blind) Experimentation, and Food Choices (2024), Michele Belot and Adelson Teh, AEA Papers and Proceedings 114, 666-671
Remember me? The role of gender and racial attributes in memory (2023), Michele Belot and Marina Schroeder, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Incentivizing dietary choices among children: Review of experimental evidence (2022), Michele Belot and Jonathan James, Food Policy, 111, 102319
Maternal stress during pregnancy and children’s diet: Evidence from a population of low socioeconomic status (2022), Nutrition, 93, 111423, Michele Belot, Jonathan James, Martina Vecchi and Nicolai Vitt (author order is Vitt, Vecchi, James and Belot)
Daily stressors and food choices: A lab experiment with low-SES mothers (2021), Michele Belot, Jonathan James, Martina Vecchi and Nicolai Vitt, European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 136(C).
Mind training, stress and behaviour—A randomised experiment. (2021), Michele Belot, Y Alem, H Behrendt , & A Bíró. PLoS One, 15(11)(e0258172).
Unequal consequences of Covid 19: representative evidence from six countries (2021), Michele Belot, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Matthew V. Zahn, Eline Broek-Altenburg, Syngjoo Choi, Julian C. Jamison & Egon Tripodi, Rev Econ Household 19, 769–783 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09560-z Note: Belot, Choi and Tripodi first authors.
Rewarding behavior with a sweet food strengthens its valuation (2021), Michele Belot, Jan Bauer, Marina Schroeder, Martina Vecchi, Tina Blake, Suzanne Dickson, Plos One, 16(4): e0242461. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242461
Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic (2021), Michele Belot, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Matthew V. Zahn, Eline Broek-Altenburg, Syngjoo Choi, Julian C. Jamison & Egon Tripodi, Journal of Population Economics 34(2), 691-738. Note: Papageorge and Zahn are first authors.
Unequal consequences of Covid 19: representative evidence from six countries (2021), Michele Belot, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Matthew V. Zahn, Eline Broek-Altenburg, Syngjoo Choi, Julian C. Jamison & Egon Tripodi, Rev Econ Household 19, 769–783 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09560-z Note: Belot, Choi and Tripodi first authors.
Professional activities
- Panel Unraveling the Global Pandemic Impact on Women. Presented to Cornell University. Cornell University. 2022.
- Changing Dietary Habits in Early Life – A Field Experiment with Low Income Families. Presented to University of Toronto. Toronto. 2022.
- Changing Dietary Habits in Early Life – A Field Experiment with Low Income Families. Online. 2022.
- Changing Dietary Habits in Early Life – A Field Experiment with Low Income Families. Presented to Cornell University. Ithaca. 2022.
- Changing Dietary Habits in Early Life – A Field Experiment with Low Income Families. Presented to University College London. Online. 2021.
- Changing Dietary Habits in Early Life – A Field Experiment with Low Income Families. Presented to University of Copenhagen. Online. 2021.
- Changing Dietary Habits in Early Life – A Field Experiment with Low Income Families. Presented to University of Glasgow. Online. 2021.
- Changing Dietary Habits in Early Life – A Field Experiment with Low Income Families. Presented to University of Sydney. Online. 2021.
- Eliciting Time Preferences with Changing Background Consumption. Presented to University of Essen. Online. 2021.
- Eliciting Time Preferences with Changing Background Consumption. Presented to Utrecht School of Economics. Online. 2021.
- Eliciting Time Preferences with Changing Background Consumption. Presented to Dusseldorf University. Online. 2021.
- Changing Dietary Habits in Early Life – A Field Experiment with Low Income Families. Presented to University of Nottingham. Online. 2021.
- Daily stressors and Food Choices: A Lab Experiment with Low-SES Mothers. Presented to University of Antwerp. Online. 2021.
- Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation & Application to Job Search. Presented to Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Online. 2020.
- Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation & Application to Job Search. Presented to Catholic University of Louvain. Online. 2020.
- Unequal Consequences of Covid-19 Across Age and Income: Representative Evidence from Six Countries. Presented to European Commission. Online. 2020.
- How wage announcements affect job search behaviour - a field experimental investigation. Presented to University of Liverpool. Online. 2020.
- Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation & Application to Job Search. Presented to IZA. Online. 2020.
- Discrimination in Memory. Presented to EALE-SOLE-ASSLE. Online. 2020.
- Unequal Consequences of Covid-19 Across Age and Income: Representative Evidence from Six Countries. Presented to Behavioral Insights Team. Online. 2020.