Current Projects
Please see below for a list of my current research projects. Copies of working papers are available using the hyperlinks. All comments are welcome.
Hiring Discrimination
Burn, Ian, Daniel Firoozi, Daniel Ladd, and David Neumark. "Help Really Wanted? The Impact of Age Stereotypes in Job Ads on Applications from Older Workers." NBER WP 30287.
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Supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Burn, Ian, Patrick Button, and David Schwegman. “Using Text Analysis to Detect Subtle Discrimination in Audit Field Experiments”
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Supported by a grant from the NSF.
Antinyan, Armenak, Ian Burn, and Melanie Jones. “Is There Hiring Discrimination Against Disabled People in the UK?”
Economics of the LGBTQ+ Community
Socioeconomic and Health Effects of Gender Affirming Care in Sweden
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Supported by grants from the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, FORTE, and the Swedish Research Council.
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Current papers:
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Kolk, Martin, Lucas Tilley, Emma von Essen, Ylva Moberg, and Ian Burn. "Demographic Trends in Sweden's Transgender Population (1973–2020)"
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Burn, Ian, Emma von Essen, Ylva Moberg, and Lucas Tilley. "The Labor Market Effects of Gender Affirming Care: Evidence from Sweden".
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Burn, Ian, Emma von Essen, Ylva Moberg, and Lucas Tilley. "The Effects of Gender Affirming Care on Mental Health".
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von Essen, Emma, Ian Burn, Ylva Moberg, and Lucas Tilley. "National Administrative Data in Research on Transgender People: A Matter of Sample Definition?"
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Aging in the LGBT+ Community
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Current papers:
- Burn, Ian and Joanna Lahey. "Economic Outcomes of Older LGBT+ Workers: Longitudinal Evidence from England".
Other Projects
Bennett, Patrick, Ian Burn, and Luke Walsh. “The Effect of Pay Transparency Laws on
Wages and Discrimination Complaints”