Elizabeth Lyons

Elizabeth Lyons’ research focuses on organizational and innovation economics, with labor markets and management serving as a common underlying theme. She has examined how incentive design, coordination barriers, technology adoption and inequality affect entrepreneurship, organizational performance and innovation.

Lyons teaches courses at the School of Global Policy and Strategy on international business, innovation policy and management, and start-ups. She was awarded the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research, as well as the UC San Diego Graduate and Professional Student Association Faculty Teaching Award. During her graduate studies, Lyons was the inaugural associate director of the Creative Destruction Lab, a venture lab at the University of Toronto, and she now directs the Wavemaker Lab at UC San Diego.

For more information, please visit Elizabeth Lyon’s personal website.

Education and CV

Ph.D., Strategic Management, University of Toronto, 2014
A.B., Economics, University of Toronto, 2009
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Research Interests

 

Journal Articles

"Team Production in International Labor Markets: Experimental Evidence from the Field.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming.

“Does Standardized Information in Online Markets Disproportionately Benefit Job Applicants from Less Developed Countries?" Journal of International Economics, forthcoming.

“The Impact of Entrepreneurship Programs on Minorities” with Laurina Zhang. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming.

Working Papers

“Do Higher Salaries Lead to Higher Performance? Evidence from State Legislators and Governors.” with Mitchell Hoffman (Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization).

“Do Entrepreneurship Programs Create Entrepreneurs?” with Laurina Zhang.

Book Chapters

“Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda” with Ajay Agrawal, John Horton and Nicola Lacetera. Forthcoming in Goldfarb, A., Greenstein, S. & Tucker, C (Eds) Economics of Digitization: An Agenda. National Bureau of Economic Research.
 

Work in Progress

“Does Entrepreneurship Training Lead to Entrepreneurship?” with Laurina Zhang. 

“Organizational Coordination and Market Conditions: Evidence from the Lab” with Tanjim Hossain and Aloysius Siow.

“Start-Up Team Composition: Evidence from a Natural Experiment” with Pai-Ling Yin.