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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · 28d

Keynotes: Prof. Manisha Shah (UC Berkeley) & Prof. Stefania Albanesi (University of Miami).

Special sessions on the economics of violence against women (with CEVAW, GLO, and JOPE).

We would love to see you there!

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Aug 13

If there is still space, please add me :)

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · May 23

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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Job Search

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CESifo @cesifo.org · Mar 12

📣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...

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Feb 18

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 😊

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Feb 16

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!

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Feb 8

Our experience with the @pnas.org was excellent!

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?

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Feb 8

You can find our open-access paper here:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Top-performing girls are more impactful peer role models than boys, teachers say | PNAS

We examine teachers’ perceptions toward top-performing students and their role model influence on others in an online survey-based experiment. We r...

www.pnas.org

Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Feb 8

Our findings have important implications, as teachers shape classroom dynamics and influence the positive externalities between students.

Also so happy to share that my maternity leave started with two paper acceptances 🥰

#Economics #Randomization #Experiment #RoleModels

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Feb 8

These effects are more pronounced among teachers with children & in urban areas.

However, our administrative data show limited observed differences in educational outcomes between top-performing boys and girls that could justify these teachers’ gendered perceptions.

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Feb 8

We find that teachers view top-performing girls as more impactful peer role models than top-performing boys.

We find that teachers associate greater learning autonomy & a stronger sense of being an example with top-performing girls compared with boys.

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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?

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Dec 26

Merry Christmas!

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IZA @iza.org · Dec 20

✨ #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
newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...

The hidden costs of classroom disruptiveness

How peer behavior shapes academic and career outcomes

newsroom.iza.org

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Dec 20

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

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Dec 20

The findings discussed in these pieces are drawn from our academic publication earlier this year in the Journal of Public Economics, based on research that lasted many years, conducted with Aspasia Bizopoulou and Stefania Simion:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do second chances pay off? Evidence from a natural experiment with low-achieving students

In several countries, students who fail high-stakes exams at the end of high school are faced with the choice of retaking or forgoing postsecondary ed…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Dec 20

We use unique data that we obtained from the Hellenic Ministry of Education on student outcomes each time they repeat the national exams and we also exploit a natural experiment that affected low-achieving students.

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Dec 20

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...

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Yves Zenou @yveszenou.bsky.social · Dec 12

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

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Dec 12

Our findings highlight how classroom dynamics influence academic & career trajectories, particularly for disadvantaged students.

We all came together in person at @monashuniversity.bsky.social & worked non-stop for a week to finish this project 🥂🥳\

Full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Dec 12

These effects are more pronounced in low-income areas, larger classes, and when female peers are fewer. Our lab-in-the-field experiment suggests that peer disruptiveness decreases motivation for study effort, college study aspirations, & science study and career readiness.

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Dec 12

We find that students in disruptive classrooms face: lower test scores, higher grade retention risk, a lower likelihood of graduating from high school on time, a lower likelihood of pursuing competitive STEM fields & enrolling in selective postsecondary programs 3 years later.

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Dec 12

We combine: direct measures of disruptiveness, quasi-random peer group formation, novel data from Greece, a novel theoretical framework, and a lab-in-the-field experiment to study the impact of disruptiveness on peers’ outcomes & understand the mechanisms behind these effects.

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