Emily A. Beam

Research Fellow

University of Vermont

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Emily Beam is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Vermont. She previously worked as a visiting assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. She received her Ph.D in economics and public policy from the University of Michigan in 2013 and my B.S. in economics, mathematics, and Spanish from the University of Michigan in 2006.

Her research interests are in labor and development economics, with a particular focus on employment and education policy, migration, fertility and marriage, and the role of incomplete information and behavioral biases on individual decision-making. She is currently conducting impact evaluations of summer employment and teacher placement programs in the Philippines, as well as field experiments on the relative returns to education and experience among young job-seekers.

Emily joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in February 2013 and became a Research Fellow in July 2017.

Research Affiliate 2/2013 - 6/2017

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15597
Social Media as a Recruitment and Data Collection Tool: Experimental Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Web Surveys and Chatbots
Emily A. Beam
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15596
Lowering Barriers to Remote Education: Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning
Emily A. Beam, Priya Mukherjee, Laia Navarro-Sola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14661
The Impact of Short-Term Employment for Low-Income Youth: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
Emily A. Beam, Stella Quimbo
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (6), 1379–1393.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13793
Search Costs and the Determinants of Job Search
Emily A. Beam
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101968
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13233
The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics
Nick Huntington-Klein, Andreu Arenas, Emily A. Beam, Marco Bertoni, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Pralhad Burli, Naibin Chen, Paul Greico, Godwin Ekpe, Todd Pugatch, Martin Saavedra, Yaniv Stopnitzky
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (3), 944 - 960 https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12992
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10537
The Relative Returns to Education, Experience, and Attractiveness for Young Workers
Emily A. Beam, Joshua Hyman, Caroline Theoharides
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 68 (2), 391–428
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10385
Inter-ethnic Fertility Spillovers and the Role of Forward-looking Behavior: Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia
Emily A. Beam, Slesh Shrestha
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