Michele Belot
Research Interests
Biography
Michèle Belot is the Frances Perkins Chair of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. Her research interests are broadly in applied microeconomics, with a special interest in experimental work and areas related to labor, health and education. Her recent work consists mainly of designing and testing interventions using randomized controlled trials, in the domains of health and job search. She has served as President of the European Association of Labour Economists and of the European Society of Population Economics. She has published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Health Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and The Economic Journal. She received her PhD in Economics from Tilburg University in 2003 and has held previous academic positions at the University of Essex, the University of Oxford. the University of Edinburgh and the European University Institute.