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Ilyana Kuziemko
I am a labor economist interested in many dimensions of inequality, particularly those that run through educational institutions. For example, I have written about the college gender gap, examining the reasons for women’s increasing engagement in higher education, the impact of school size on student achievement, and the relationship between immigrant children’s command of English and their parents’ incentives to learn the language themselves. The impact of imprisonment policy, as it has shifted to binding fixed-sentences has also been the subject of my work. I find that the social cost of crime under this system, compared to the traditional policy of supervised parole, depends on the impact of time served on future recidivism, the accuracy of parole board estimations of recidivism risk and the extend to which parole encourages inmates to invest in rehabilitation. Along similar lines, I investigated the consequences of vastly increased rates of imprisonment for drug offenders. Visit WebsitePublications Kuziemko, I. and E. Werker, “How Much is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations,” Journal of Political Economy 114, no. 5 (October 2006): 905-930.
Ten of the fifteen seats on the U.N. Security Council are held by rotating members serving two-year terms. The authors find that a country’s U.S. aid increases by 59 percent and its U.N. aid by 8 percent when it rotates onto the council. This effect increases during years in which key diplomatic events take place (when members’ votes should be especially valuable) and the timing of the effect closely tracks a country’s election to, and exit from, the council. Finally, the U.N. results appear to be driven by UNICEF, an organization over which the United States has historically exerted great control. |
