About

Elaina Rose is an Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Economics at the University of Washington. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 and her B.A. in Economics from Temple University in 1983. She came to the University of Washington from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. Her research interests include applied microeconomics, development economics, and labor economics. She has taught courses such as Labor Market Analysis in the Spring 2023, Spring 2024, and Spring 2025 semesters.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Public relations
• Management

Selected publications

• Ostracism Amongst Junior Employees

  International Journal of Advanced Research in Economics and Finance · 2023

  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Social psychology

  This study provides tenets that guide a wide range of researchers, industry practitioners, and academics in order to work multifaceted environment of workplace ostracism, work engagement, and turnover intention. The prevalence of turnover intention has received critical attention among Human Resource practitioners as the alarming statistics nowadays allude to global epidemic of actual turnover. High turnover can be costly to any organization. Therefore, this issue needs special attention as it may impact the company’s bottom line. Based on the research philosophies of positivism, this study employs a deductive approach or quantitative research design. This shall provide empirical evidence of the effect of ostracism on turnover and moderated by work engagement. Based on the available literature, a comparative analysis of different experiences with ostracism and turnover from diverse background studies has shown their adequacy for the requirement to involve work engagement as the mediator. This study only looking from East Culture’s perspective which is the Malaysian Private Higher Education Institutions (MPHEIs). It is a cross-sectional, which prevents examining the evolution over time of the phenomenon under investigation. Many studies have examined the antecedents of turnover intention, however, the effects of relational experiences at work on turnover intention amongst junior employees have not been fully explored.

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• Replication data for: Gender Peer Effects in a Predominantly Male Environment: Evidence from West Point

  ICPSR Data Holdings · 2018-01-01

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  There is considerable interest in the success of women in overwhelmingly male environments. One hypothesized determinant of success is the increased presence of other women. However, the theoretical direction of this effect is uncertain. Previous studies of heavily male contexts have had mixed results. We take advantage of random peer group assignment at West Point military academy to identify gender peer effects in the first years in which women were admitted. We find that women do significantly better when placed in companies with more women peers. The addition of one woman peer reduces the gender progression gap by half.

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• Gender Peer Effects in a Predominantly Male Environment: Evidence from West Point

  AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2018-05-01 · 14 citations

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  There is considerable interest in the success of women in overwhelmingly male environments. One hypothesized determinant of success is the increased presence of other women. However, the theoretical direction of this effect is uncertain. Previous studies of heavily male contexts have had mixed results. We take advantage of random peer group assignment at West Point military academy to identify gender peer effects in the first years in which women were admitted. We find that women do significantly better when placed in companies with more women peers. The addition of one woman peer reduces the gender progression gap by half.

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• Child Gender and the Family

  2017-10-05 · 2 citations

  reference-entry1st authorCorresponding

  Parents treat sons and daughters differently, but the causes and manifestations of the discrimination depend on context. This chapter reviews the literature on child gender in developing and developed countries and discusses methodological issues that arise when studying child gender effects. In many Asian countries, girls receive less adequate nutrition and health care, and sex-selective abortion is common. In the United States, parents of sons are more likely to be married than parents of daughters, and paternal labor supply and household expenditure patterns vary by child gender. In both cases, the patterns can be explained by differences in returns to children by gender or preferences for sons, and the responses to child gender are shaped by parents’ relative bargaining power. The particular mechanisms depend on culture and constraints faced by parents. Methodological issues include endogenous fertility and child mortality in developing countries and endogenous family structure in the United States.

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• But Who Will Get Billy? The Effect of Child Custody Laws on Marriage

  Econstor (Econstor) · 2014-12-01

  preprintOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Under the tender years doctrine in effect until the 1970's, custody was virtually always awarded to the mother upon divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the introduction of gender-neutral laws reduced the hazard into marriage by at least 7.9 percent. There is no evidence that moving from marriage non-neutrality to marriage neutrality affected marriage under the gender-neutral custody regime.

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• But Who Will Get Billy? The Effect of Child Custody Laws on Marriage

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2014-01-01 · 6 citations

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• Selection or indoctrination: Why do economics students donate less than the rest?

  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · 2011-02-19 · 174 citations

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• 1 Estimating the Veteran Effect with Endogenous Schooling when Instruments are Potentially Weak1

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2009-01-01

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  Instrumental variables estimates of the effect of military service on subsequent civilian earnings – i.e., the veteran effect – either omit schooling or treat it as exogenous. Because military service is associated with schooling, and both military service and schooling are potentially correlated with unobservables in earnings equations, estimates of the veteran effect will depend upon the treatment of schooling. In a general setting that also allows for the treatment of schooling as endogenous, we estimate the veteran effect for men who were born between 1944 and 1952 and thus reached draft age during the Vietnam era. We illustrate how alternative treatments of schooling affect the estimates. We note that key instrumental variables used in our study tend to be only weakly correlated with the endogenous regressors. Hence we apply a variety of state-of-the-art econometric techniques to diagnose the extent of the weak instrument problem and to subsequently overcome it. We find that approximately 9 – 10 years after service, Vietnam-era veterans experienced a penalty in terms of civilian earnings. JEL Classification: C2; J24

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• Why are Economics Students More Selfish than the Rest?

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2009-01-01 · 2 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author
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• Estimating the Veteran Effect with Endogenous Schooling When Instruments are Potentially Weak

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2009-01-01 · 4 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Shelly Lundberg

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  12 shared

• Yoram Bauman

  4 shared

• Saraswata Chaudhuri

  3 shared

• Anil B. Deolalikar

  2 shared

• Ho-Po Crystal Wong

  2 shared

• Nick Huntington‐Klein

  Seattle University

  2 shared

• Jutta M. Joesch

  2 shared

• M Perrotta

  1 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of Pennsylvania