Mackenzie alston
Current Research
Current Research
Alston, M., Darity, W., Eckel, C., McNeil, L., Sharpe, R. (2022). The effect of stereotypes on black college test scores at a historically black university. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 194, 408-424.
Alston, M., Eckel, C., Meer, J., and Zhan, W. (2021). High-Capacity Donors’ Preferences for Charitable Giving. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Alston, M. (2023). Eliminating discrimination in hiring isn’t enough. IZA World of Labor .
Jaeger, D. A., Arellano-Bover, J., Kryzstof, K., Martínez-Matute, Nunley, J. M., Seals, R. A., Alumnia, M., Alston, M., Becker, S. O., Beneito, P., Böheim, R., Boscá, J.E., Brown, J. H., Chang, S., Cobb-Clark, D., Danagoulian, S., Donnally, S., Eckrote-Nordland, M., Farré, L.,..., Zhu, M. (2021). The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results. Covid Economics, 79(1), 152-217.
Alston, M. (2015). The Effect of Dropping Lowest Test Scores on Learning and Performance. Equilibria, 3(1), 13-18.
Black Lives Matter for Productivity: Impacts of the 2020 Social Justice Movement on Faculty (with Sarah Jacobson; under review)
Study Website: https://sites.google.com/view/faculty-sjm-study
Does Black and Blue Matter?: An Experimental Investigation of Race and Perceptions of Police Bias (with Emily Owens; revise and resubmit)
Leaving Money on the Table (with Tatyana Deruygina and Olga Shurchkov; under review)
The (Perceived) Cost of Being Female: An Experimental Investigation of Strategic Responses to Discrimination (available upon request)
The Effect of Institutional Responses to the Pandemic and Social Justice Movement on Faculty Job Attachment (with Sarah Jacobson)
Study Website: https://sites.google.com/view/faculty-sjm-study
Fired Up?: How Unemployment Affects Worker Motivation and Productivity
Identity, Stereotype Threat, and Black College Student Success: Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey (with William Darity Jr., Catherine Eckel, Lawrence McNeil, Mark Paul, and Rhonda Sharpe)
The Role of Social Media in Academic Careers
Study Website: https://sites.google.com/wellesley.edu/socmed/home