Mackenzie alston
Current Research
Current Research
Alston, M., Deryugina, T., & Shurchkov, O. (2026). Leaving money on the table. Journal of Economic Psychology. (accepted)
Alston, M., & Owens, E. (2025). Does black and blue matter? An experimental investigation of race, perceptions of police, and legal compliance. Journal of Public Economics, 249, 105462.
Alston, M., Darity, W., Eckel, C., McNeil, L., Sharpe, R. (2022). The effect of stereotypes on black college test scores at a historically black university. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 194, 408-424.
Alston, M., Eckel, C., Meer, J., and Zhan, W. (2021). High-Capacity Donors’ Preferences for Charitable Giving. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Alston, M. & Jacobson, S. (2026). Show Us, Don’t Just Tell Us: Tips for Curating a Racially and Ethnically Inclusive Department. The Minority Report, Issue 18, Winter 2026.
Alston, M. (2023). Eliminating discrimination in hiring isn’t enough. IZA World of Labor.
Jaeger, D. A., Arellano-Bover, J., Kryzstof, K., Martínez-Matute, Nunley, J. M., Seals, R. A., Alumnia, M., Alston, M., Becker, S. O., Beneito, P., Böheim, R., Boscá, J.E., Brown, J. H., Chang, S., Cobb-Clark, D., Danagoulian, S., Donnally, S., Eckrote-Nordland, M., Farré, L.,..., Zhu, M. (2021). The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results. Covid Economics, 79(1), 152-217.
Alston, M. (2015). The Effect of Dropping Lowest Test Scores on Learning and Performance. Equilibria, 3(1), 13-18.
Black Lives Matter for Productivity: Impacts of the 2020 Social Justice Movement on Faculty (with Sarah Jacobson; under review)
Study Website: https://sites.google.com/view/faculty-sjm-study
You Might Break My Soul? Job Dissatisfaction Among Social Science Faculty (with Sarah Jacobson; available upon request)
The (Perceived) Cost of Being Female: An Experimental Investigation of Strategic Responses to Discrimination (available upon request)
Fired Up?: How Unemployment Affects Worker Motivation and Productivity
Identity, Stereotype Threat, and Black College Student Success: Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey (with William Darity Jr., Catherine Eckel, Lawrence McNeil, Mark Paul, and Rhonda Sharpe)
The Role of Social Media in Academic Careers
Study Website: https://sites.google.com/wellesley.edu/socmed/home