Mackenzie alston
Current Research
PEER-REVIEWED Publications
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.
other publications
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.
WORKING PAPERS
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)
The (Perceived) Cost of Being Female: An Experimental Investigation of Strategic Responses to Discrimination (available upon request)
Works in Progress
The Role of Social Media in Academic Careers
Study Website: https://sites.google.com/wellesley.edu/socmed/home
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
Retired Works in Progress
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)