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Rigissa Megalokonomou
@rmegal.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Economics at Monash University @monashuniversity.bsky.social, Department of Economics, labor, education, gender, causal inference, policy evaluation, PhD: @warwickecon.bsky.social, Mother, 🇬🇷 🇦🇺
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Come & join us in summer (February) in beautiful Melbourne: Submit your paper to the Australian Gender Economics Workshop (AGEW), 11–13 Feb 2026 organised at Monash University and Monash Business School.

Deadline to submit a paper: 17 Oct 2025

Details & submissions: www.monash.edu/business/eve...
Australian Gender Economics Workshop 2026
www.monash.edu
September 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Job Alert! Come and join my team!

I am looking for a cool person with a background in economics to join my research team as a postdoctoral fellow for 3 years at Monash Business School (Department of Economics) and @monashuniversity.bsky.social.

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May 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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📣New Working Paper
“Top-Performing Girls Are More Impactful Peer Role Models than Boys, Teachers Say”
✒️ @sgoulas.bsky.social @rmegal.bsky.social & Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos

Find out more: www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...
More info: www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...
March 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Welcome to @monashuniversity.bsky.social for your visits, everyone!

For the first time, @yveszenou.bsky.social, @mvlass.bsky.social, and I are all in the same place after working together for the past year 😊
February 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Funny fact: I had never received so many invitations to review papers as I have since the start of my maternity leave 😂

Dear editors, my apologies for declining all of them. I will be back to action soon!
February 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Our experience with the @pnas.org was excellent!
rmegal.bsky.social Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Feb 8
Our paper with @sgoulas.bsky.social and Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)!

Using an online survey-based randomized experiment, we ask: do teachers perceive all top-performing students as equally influential role models?
February 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Our paper with @sgoulas.bsky.social and Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)!

Using an online survey-based randomized experiment, we ask: do teachers perceive all top-performing students as equally influential role models?
February 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Merry Christmas!
December 26, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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✨ #IZAdventCalendar 2️⃣0️⃣

🎁 Today's insight: Disruptive classmates have lasting impacts on academic and career outcomes.

Test scores ⬇️ Graduation ⬇️ STEM pursuits ⬇️

@sgoulas.bsky.social @silviagriselda.bsky.social @rmegal.bsky.social @yveszenou.bsky.social #EduSky
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The hidden costs of classroom disruptiveness
How peer behavior shapes academic and career outcomes
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December 20, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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Excited to share this @iza.org non-technical article of our recent paper on the impact of disruptive peers joint with @yveszenou.bsky.social, @silviagriselda.bsky.social and Sofoklis Goulas on the impact of disruptive peers!
Article: newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...
Paper: docs.iza.org/dp17539.pdf
The hidden costs of classroom disruptiveness
How peer behavior shapes academic and career outcomes
newsroom.iza.org
December 20, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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Delighted that our research on the impacts of repeating the end-of-high-school national exams is attracting attention across newspapers, TV, radio, and even from the Hellenic Ministry of Education...

Article in Greek in Kathimerini:
www.kathimerini.gr/society/5633...
December 20, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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Here is a new paper on how do disruptive peers influence academic and career trajectories. We find that classroom peer disruptiveness has significant and persistent negative effects on various academic outcomes both in the short and long term. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Disruptive Peers and Academic Performance: Short-and Long-Term Outcomes
How do disruptive peers shape academic and career paths? We examine this question by leveraging the random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece and id
papers.ssrn.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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Very excited to share a new working paper with @yveszenou.bsky.social, @silviagriselda.bsky.social, & Sofoklis Goulas. We ask the following question: How do disruptive peers shape academic & career outcomes? We examine the effects of peer disruptiveness on academic performance & long-term outcomes.
December 12, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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How does classroom disruptive affect your performance and educational choice?

Together with @rmegal.bsky.social Yves Zenou and Sofojlis Goulas we combine admin data and reduce form estimates, with lab in the field and theory model to answer this question. Working paper coming soon...
December 10, 2024 at 6:08 AM
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When weekdays aren’t enough, and weekends find you in the office with three great coauthors who happen to be in town, making for a fun and productive time (if only the air conditioning had been working in the MBA lounge).

With @silviagriselda.bsky.social, Goulas Sofoklis, and Panos Sotirakopoulos
December 7, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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Couldn’t be more honored and happy to have been awarded the Dean’s Research Award for Early Career Research today at @monashuniversity.bsky.social and Monash Business School 🍾

No milestone has been easy, and I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this journey 🎉 🎉🎉
December 5, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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So glad to have long-term coauthor and friend Sofoklis Goulas from
@brookingsinst.bsky.social visiting me and @monashuniversity.bsky.social for the 2nd time in the last 6 months 🎉🎉

How lucky this visit started with an acceptance email from a great journal on one of our joint papers!
December 5, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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The Econometric Society Australasian Meeting hosted by @monashuniversity.bsky.social started today in ☀️ and warm Melbourne!
December 4, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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Presenting at ESAM at Monash University and happy to spent time with my co-authors. After 3 papers together this is the first be able to be all three in the same timezone and room. @rmegal.bsky.social 😍😎😍
December 4, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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We are delighted to host the Econometric Society Australasia Meeting at @monashuniversity.bsky.social.

Great sessions, mentoring events, gala dinners and amazing people around. And the weather will be lovely 25-30 C and ☀️

I am also presenting my work of female judges in the Supreme Courts :)
December 3, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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Super busy week in Melbourne and @monashuniversity.bsky.social in particular!

Yesterday and today we had the Monash Institutional Barriers to Equity Workshop in CBD.

We had a lovely session today in which I presented new, novel, and exciting work on religiosity-based bias in education!
December 3, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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I am honoured and delighted to have been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grant for my 3-year project: "Women in STEM: The Longer-Term Effects of Teachers." My message to fellow researchers out there is: never give up!
December 1, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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#EconSky Reviewed a great pool of JM candidates for the tenure-track Lecturer/Assistant Prof. positions at Monash Economics! @monashuniversity.bsky.social

The committee will meet next week to make decisions about next steps (i.e., interviews). Job market candidates, stay positive and tuned!
November 29, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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Have a look at our great job market Monash Economics candidates who are on the job market this year. Great fresh graduates and post-docs! @monashuniversity.bsky.social @sodalabs.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 1:48 AM