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Michele Belot

People/Faculty
Co-Editor, ILR Review
ILR Review
Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics
Economics
michele belot

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133 Statler Dr
272 Ives Hall Faculty Wing

Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

Overview

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

Behavioral Economics

Publications

Journal Articles

Conference Proceedings

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.