Working Papers

Publications

Work In Progress

Rigissa Megalokonomou

​Lecturer in Economics

• "Long Term Effects of Teachers: Evidence from a Teacher Value Added Approach” with Victor Lavy (Warwick) work in progress
  
• "Swine Flu, Class Attendance, and School Performance. Should we force students to go to class? with Sofoklis Goulas (Stanford),  revising existing draft
  
• “Does the Gender Composition of Judges Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Judges to Cases from more than 3,000 Supreme Court cases”​ , data collection done, draft in preparation​
• "Externalities in the Classroom. Are High-Achievers Hostages of Low-Achievers?" with Sofoklis Goulas (Stanford) and  Silvia Griselda (Melbourne) revising the draft for circulation
• "The Effect of the Exposure to Refugees on Crime Activity. Evidence from the Greek Islands​" with Valantis Vasilakis (Bangor) draft in preparation
  
• "The impact of scholarships and bursaries on academic success in University and the Labor Market”  with Valantis Vasilakis (Bangor)
  
• "The Long Run Gender Peer Effects" with Yi Zhang (Queensland) and Sofoklis Goulas (Stanford), first draft ready
  
• ”Estimating Human Capital Depreciation: Evidence from Greek Teacher Waitlists” with Michael Dinerstein (Chicago) and Costantine Yannelis (Chicago), first draft ready, conducting a survey at the moment​

• ​" Which degrees do students prefer during recessions? ”  with Sofoklis Goulas (Stanford), Empirical Economics, 2018    ​                                                                                                                                                                                          Featured in: The Conversation, Epoch Times (Singapore), Scrollin (India) , EUROPP (LSE), ​The Kathimerini (in Greek) and The Ethnos ( in Greek)

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• ​“Feedback, Learning and Performance: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial" with Isabella Dobrescu (UNSW), Marco Faravelli (Queensland) and Alberto Motta (UNSW), Revise and Resubmit, Economic Journal (A*)
  
• "Marathon, Hurdling or Sprint? The Effects of Exam Scheduling on Academic Performance",with Sofoklis Goulas (Stanford), Revise and Resubmit, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (A)
  
• Do Parents Respond to Regulation of Sugary Drinks in Childcare? Evidence from California"  with Jiafei Hu  (University of Queensland) and Haishan Yuan (University of Queensland), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation (A*)
  
• ​​"Knowing who you actually are: The effect of feedback on short and long term outcomes" with Sofoklis Goulas (Stanford), Appendix 1, Under Review, Journal of Public Economics                                                                        
  
•  ​​Unicredit & Universities Young Economist Prize for best paper presented at the 2016 Belgrade Young Economist Conference​   and   Recipient of the Best Paper Recognition in Social Sciences ​presented at the Asia Pacific Institute of Advanced Research, Melbourne 
• ​ “Persistency in Teachers' Grading Biases and Effect on Longer Term Outcomes: University Admission Exams and Choice of Field of Study" with Victor Lavy (Warwick), Under Review, American Economics Review​
• ​ “Does the girl next door affect your academic outcomes and career choices? ” with Yi Zhang (Queensland) and Sofoklis Goulas (Stanford), Under Review, Journal of Human Resources
• "​Class size and performance: At what cost? " with Desire Kedagni (Iowa State University), Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University) and Yingyan Zhao (Pennsylvania State University), NBER Working Paper, Under Review, European Economic Review​

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