Laura M Giuliano

About

Laura M. Giuliano is a Professor of Economics with a focus on labor economics, education economics, and inequality. She is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research extensively explores the impacts of educational policies and labor market dynamics on disadvantaged and minority groups. Giuliano has contributed to understanding how gifted education programs can support higher-ability boys from disadvantaged backgrounds and has examined the effects of universal screening on increasing the representation of low-income and minority students in gifted education. Her work also addresses the consequences of unequal raises on employee quit behavior and the role of tracking in raising test scores among high-ability minority students. Giuliano's research has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She has collaborated with prominent economists including David Card, Arindrajit Dube, and Jonathan Leonard. Giuliano has received significant research funding from the Institute of Education Sciences and other organizations to study topics such as test-based retention policies, gifted education, and firm wage policies. Beyond academic publications, she has contributed to policy discussions and public discourse on education and labor market issues through non-academic writing and blog posts.

Research topics

• Business
• Genetics
• Biology
• Environmental protection
• Natural resource economics
• Ecology
• Environmental planning
• Microbiology
• Environmental health
• Environmental science

Selected publications

• Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior

  American Economic Review · 2019-01-29 · 176 citations

  articleOpen access

  We analyze how separations responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages at a large US retailer. Regression-discontinuity estimates imply large causal effects of own-wages on separations, and on quits in particular. However, this own-wage response could reflect comparisons either to market wages or to peer wages. Estimates using peer-wage discontinuities show large peer-wage effects and imply the own-wage separation response mostly reflects peer comparisons. The peer effect is driven…

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• Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2018-08-01 · 59 citations

  reportOpen access

  We analyze how separations responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages at a large U.S. retailer. Regression-discontinuity estimates imply large causal effects of own wages on separations, and on quits in particular. However, this own-wage response could reflect comparisons either to market wages or to peer wages. Estimates using peer-wage discontinuities show large peer-wage effects and imply the own-wage separation response mostly reflects peer comparisons. The peer effect is drive…

  PublisherDOI

• Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author
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• Replication Code for: "Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?"

  Harvard Dataverse · 2026-01-20

  datasetOpen accessSenior author

  This is the replication package for "Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?", accepted in 2026 by the Journal of Political Economy.

  PublisherDOI

• Replication Code for: "Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?"

  Harvard Dataverse · 2026-01-19

  datasetOpen accessSenior author

  This is the replication package for "Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?", accepted in 2026 by the Journal of Political Economy.

  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Michail M. Yakimov

  83 shared

• Giuseppe D’Auria

  51 shared

• Kenneth N. Timmis

  Technische Universität Braunschweig

  51 shared

• Christian Tamburini

  45 shared

• Peter N. Golyshin

  Bangor University

  44 shared

• Daniele Daffonchio

  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  44 shared

• Cesare Corselli

  University of Milano-Bicocca

  44 shared

• J. Thomson

  44 shared

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