Mario Macis Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy University of Michigan, Ross School of Business Research Fellow, IZA Research Fellow, Fondazione Debenedetti Contact Information: Ross School of Business 701 Tappan St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Office: R5310 Phone: 734 764 2305 Fax: 734 936 8716 mmacis[at]umich[dot]edu

What’s New!

Paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Development Economics (joint with Tito Boeri)

NSF grant for “Field Experiments on Incentives and Altruism” - with Nico Lacetera and Bob Slonim ($320,000)

Mitsui Life Financial Research Center special award for “Export and Wages” ($5,000)

Curriculum Vitae

BE Seminar Series

Teaching

BE-MO 619, Incentives and Productivity (MBA)

BE XXX, Topics in Personnel Economics (PhD)

BE 300, Applied Microeconomics (Undergraduate)

Completed Papers and Work in Progress

Do Unemployment Benefits Promote or Hinder Job Reallocation?

Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming

(with Tito Boeri) [PDF]

Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-Social Behavior [COMING SOON]

(with Nicola Lacetera and Robert Slonim)

Do All Material Incentives for Prosocial Activities Backfire? The Response to Cash and Non-Cash Incentives for Blood Donations,

submitted

(with Nicola Lacetera) [PDF]

Motivating Altruism: A Field Study, IZA DP 3770 submitted

(with Nicola Lacetera)

This paper "inspired" one of Gary Becker`s famous Problem Sets [PDF]

Social Image Concerns and Prosocial Behavior: Field Evidence from a Nonlinear Incentive Scheme, IZA DP 3771 submitted

(with Nicola Lacetera)

Press Coverage / Summaries of our work on pro-social behavior:

VoxEu.Org (policy portal of the CEPR)

IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor)

LaVoce.info (economic policy website, in Italian)

Slate.com (The Big Money)

Aftab.ir (Iranian online magazine)

Ann Arbor News

Wage Dynamics and Insurance [PDF]

Labor Regulations in Developing Countries (with Tito Boeri and Brooke Helppie), WB SP Discussion Paper 0833

Export and Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

(with Fabiano Schivardi)

CEO Gender and the Gender Wage Gap (with Luca Flabbi and Fabiano Schivardi)

Incentives for Blood Donation: Natural and Field Experiments (with Nicola Lacetera and Robert Slonim)

Mobility Incentives from Unemployment Benefits (with Francesca Mazzolari)

In-kind Pay and Minimum Wages: Evidence from Thailand (with Weerachart Kilenthong)

Employment and Welfare Consequences of Compressing the Wage Structure

In Italian

Il mercato del lavoro e la giurisprudenza in materia di licenziamenti, Diritto delle Relazioni Industriali, N. 02/2001, Associazione Lavori e Ricerche, Milano, Giuffre, 2001.

Press coverage of this paper:

Licenziamenti, al Sud l'azienda paga di piu', Il Sole 24 Ore, 09/10/2001
La via d'uscita della conciliazione, Il Sole 24 Ore, 09/10/2001

[To obtain the data used in the paper, click on this link: ISTAT-MACIS DATA]

Principi di Microeconomia e Macroeconomia: Esercizi e temi d'Esame svolti (with Giacomo de Giorgi), Casa Editrice EGEA, Bocconi University, Milan, 2004 (intermediate micro and macroeconomics exercises book, in Italian).

Recent and Forthcoming Presentations/Conference Participation:

Universidad de Chile, Economics Department, Santiago de Chile, 7-10-2009

Association for Public Economic Theory Annual Conference, Galway, Ireland, 18-20 June 2009

CEPR Research Workshop in International Trade, Madrid, 1-3 June 2009 (presentation by coauthor)

The World Bank, 5-27-2009

UC Santa Barbara, Economics, 5-20-2009

Georgetown University, Economics, 4-21-2009

Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, 3-13-2009

Universita’ degli Studi di Cagliari, 3-2-2009

IZA-World Bank Conference on Evaluation of Labor Market Programs, Bonn, 2-20-2009

Indiana University (Kelley), 10-10-08, Motivating Altruism: A Field Study

Northwestern University (Economics), 10-02-08, Motivating Altruism: A Field Study

University of Rochester (Economics), 9-12-08, Wage Dynamics and Insurance

UC Irvine (Economics), 6-5-08, Motivating Altruism: A Field Study & Social Image Concerns

University of Michigan (Economics), 4-11-08, Motivating Altruism: A Field Study & Social Image Concerns

University of Edinburgh (Economics), 3-2-08, Wage Dynamics and Insurance

Oxford University (Economics), 2-28-08, Wage Dynamics and Insurance

University of Chicago (Economics), 1-25-08, Motivating Altruism: A Field Study & Social Image Concerns

Refereeing:

Journal of Political Economy (2); Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2); Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy; Labour Economics.

Popular Press Articles (in Italian):

http://www.lavoce.info

Giudici e licenziamenti, with Pietro Garibaldi, Corriere della Sera Economia, 11-6-2000 [download]

Italia: Sud senza lavoro, Nord senza lavoratori, with Pietro Garibaldi, Corriere della Sera Economia, 2-5-2001 [download]

Temporanei si, ma per quanto? with Francesca Mazzolari, Corriere della Sera Economia, 3-26-2001 [download]

Proteggere chi ha un lavoro o chi ha perso un lavoro? with Pietro Garibaldi, Corriere della Sera Economia, 5-23-2001 [download]

Other Media Appearances

MSN ITALY, Obama: E Adesso? (webcam interview, in Italian)

Michigan Daily, 3-24-2009

MONROE STREET JOURNAL, When Smart People Answer Dumb Questions…

RADIOCUORE, Facca a Eris, on Emigration and the Brain Drain from Sardinia, 5-20-2006 (in Sardinian language)

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