Amalia Miller

About

Amalia Miller is the Department Chair and Georgia S. Bankard Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. Her fields of interest include Law and Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University. Her research focuses on issues related to economic policy in these areas, contributing to the understanding of how legal frameworks, labor markets, and health economics intersect and influence economic outcomes.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Economics
• Medicine
• Management
• Economic growth
• Labour economics
• Demographic economics
• Library science

Selected publications

• Effects of COVID‐19 shutdowns on domestic violence in US cities

  Journal of Urban Economics · 2022 · 32 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• Effects of the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 pandemic on domestic violence in Los Angeles

  Economica · 2023-08-22 · 12 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract From the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, policymakers and news reports warned that restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity could lead to a surge in domestic violence (DV). Some initial studies found evidence of greater DV incidence during the pandemic, but findings were inconsistent across locations and DV measures. This paper focuses on a single major city, Los Angeles (LA), to study the impact of the initial pandemic shutdown. We use three DV measures from police d…

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• Do Male Workers Prefer Male Leaders?

  The Journal of Human Resources · 2021 · 9 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Aliza N. Husain⇑, David A. Matsa⇑ and Amalia R. Miller⇑ Aliza N. Husain is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo, SUNY David A. Matsa is a Professor of Finance at Northwestern University and a Research Associate at the NBER Amalia R. Miller is a Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Research Fellow at IZA alizahus{at}buffalo.edu dmatsa{at}kellogg.northwes…

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• Effects of COVID-19 Shutdowns on Domestic Violence in US Cities

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2021-10-01 · 8 citations

  reportOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  We empirically investigate the impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence using incident-level data on both domestic-related calls for service and crime reports of domestic violence assaults from the 18 major US police departments for which both types of records are available. Although we confirm prior reports of an increase in domestic calls for service at the start of the pandemic, we find that the increase preceded mandatory shutdowns, and there was an incremental decline following the…

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• Effects of COVID-19 Shutdowns on Domestic Violence in US Cities

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021-01-01 · 6 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R03HD061514

  NIH · $179k · 2013

Frequent coauthors

• Catherine E. Tucker

  46 shared

• Carmit Segal

  29 shared

• David A. Matsa

  29 shared

• Astrid Kunze

  23 shared

• Carole Roan Gresenz

  Georgetown University

  20 shared

• Ragan Petrie

  11 shared

• Melissa K. Spencer

  University of Richmond

  8 shared

• Jeremy Burke

  7 shared

Education

• PhD, Economics

  Stanford University

  2004

• SB, Economics

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1999

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