Justine Burns

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the relationship between wage and employment growth, finding no consistent trade-off between them and find that the retail price increases necessary to absorb the costs of raising wages substantially are small, well within the range of price increases that polls suggest US consumers are willing to pay.

TL;DR: In this article, a sample of secondary school students were recruited to participate in a simple linear public goods game where income heterogeneity was introduced by providing participants with unequal token endowments.

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether tendency to acknowledge entitlement owing to effort and productivity are associated with within society economic status, and found that relatively well-off individuals make allocations to others that reflect those others' initial endowments more when those endsowments were earned rather than random; among relatively poor individuals this was not the case.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit a policy designed to randomly allocate roommates in a large South African university to investigate whether inter-racial interaction affects stereotypes, attitudes and performance, and find that living with a roommate of a different race reduces white students? negative stereotypes towards blacks and increases interracial friendships.