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Kirsten Cornelson

Assistant Professor, Business, Economics and Public Policy

Kirsten Cornelson

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Kirsten Cornelson is an Assistant Professor in Business, Economics and Public Policy at the Ivey Business School. She is an applied microeconomist, focusing on the role of the social environment in shaping economic, political, and health decisions. Her work has been published in journals such as Labour Economics, Demography, Health Economics, and the Journal of Economic Literature. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 2017, and previously worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame.

Education

  • PhD (Economics), University of Toronto, 2017
  • MA (Economics), University of Toronto, 2008
  • BA (Economics and International Relations), Mount Allison University, 2007

Recent Refereed Articles

  • Mourali, M.; Benham, J. L.; Lang, R.; Fullerton, M. M.; Boucher, J-C.; Cornelson, K.; Oxoby, R. J.; Constantinescu, C.; Tang, T.; Marshall, D. A., et al., 2023, "Persuasive Messages for Improving Adherence to COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors: Randomized Online Experiment", JMIR Human Factors, February 10
  • Cornelson, K.; Miloucheva, B., 2022, "Political polarization and cooperation during a pandemic", Health Economics, September 31(9)
  • Boucher, J-C.; Cornelson, K.; Benham, J. L.; Fullerton, M. M.; Tang, T.; Constantinescu, C.; Mourali, M.; Oxoby, R. J.; Marshall, D. A.; Hemmati, H., et al., 2021, "Analyzing Social Media to Explore the Attitudes and Behaviors Following the Announcement of Successful COVID-19 Vaccine Trials: Infodemiology Study", JMIR Infodemiology, August 1(1)
  • Baker, M.; Cornelson, K., 2019, "Title IX and the spatial content of female employment—Out of the lab and into the labor market", Labour Economics, June 58: 128 - 144.
  • Cornelson, K.; Baker, M., 2018, "Gender-Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor, and Spatial Aptitudes", Demography, October 55(5): 1749 - 1775.
  • Siow, A.; Cornelson, K., 2016, "A Quantitative Review of Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking the American Family by Carbone and Cahn", Journal of Economic Literature, March 54(1): 193 - 207.

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Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Notre Dame 2017-2023
  • Economist, Royal Bank of Canada, 2010-2012

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