Elizabeth Lyons
School of Global Policy and Strategy
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0519
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Email: lizlyons@ucsd.edu

Tel: (858) 822-4964

Date: June, 2020

Appointments
2014 -University of California San Diego
Assistant Professor of Management, School of Global Policy and Strategy
La Jolla, CAEducation2009 - 2014

PhD, Strategic Management
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

2005-2009

Bachelor of Arts, Economics
University of Toronto
with Honors, Silver Medal

Journal Articles
1. “Conspicuous Monitoring and Remote Work” (with Nathaniel Jensen, Eddy Chebelyon, Ronan Le
Bras & Carla Gomes). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming.
2. “A Time to Make Laws and a Time to Fundraise? On the Relation between Salaries and Time Use forState Politicians” (with Mitchell Hoffman). Canadian Journal of Economics, Forthcoming.
3. “The Impact of Job-Specific Training on Short-Term Worker Performance: Evidence from a FieldExperiment.” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, vol. 29, no. 1, 2020.
4. “Research as Leisure: Experimental Evidence on Voluntary Contributions to Science” (with LaurinaZhang). PLOS ONE, 2019.
5. “Equity and Efficiency in the Organization of Firms” (with Tanjim Hossain and Aloysius Siow). Experimental Economics, 2019.
6. “Increasing STEM undergraduate participation in innovative activities: Field experimental evidence”(with Joshua Graff Zivin). PLOS ONE, 2019.
7. “Who Does (not) Benefit from Entrepreneurship Programs?” (with Laurina Zhang). Strategic Management Journal, vol 39, no 1, 2018.
8. “The Impact of Entrepreneurship Programs on Minorities” (with Laurina Zhang). American Economic
Review: Papers and Proceedings, May, 2017.
9. “Team Production in International Labor Markets: Experimental Evidence from the Field.” American
Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol 9, no 3, 2017.

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10. “Does Standardized Information in Online Markets Disproportionately Benefit Job Applicants fromLess Developed Countries?” (with Ajay Agrawal and Nico Lacetera). Journal of International Economics, 2016, vol. 203, 1-12.
Book Chapters & Invited Papers
1. “Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda” (with Ajay Agrawal, John Hortonand Nicola Lacetera). In Goldfarb, A., Greenstein, S. & Tucker, C (Eds) Economics of Digitization:An Agenda, 2015. National Bureau of Economic Research.
Grants & Honors
2020
JPAL Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative Off-Cycle Grant
2019
Nominated and elected as representative-at-large for the Strategic Management Society’sentrepreneurship and strategy interest group2018
Kauffman Foundation Grant (with Josh Graff Zivin)
The BRAC-CEGA Learning Collaborative (with Md. Abdul Alim)
2017
Policy Design & Evaluation Lab ICT Grant
2016
Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research
NBER Innovation Policy Research Grant (with Laurina Zhang)
Kauffman Foundation Grant (with Josh Graff Zivin)2015
2015 Hartle Award for outstanding graduate scholarship on a policy-relevant topic
UCSD Academic Senate Research Award
2014
Center for Emerging & Pacific Economies, Unrestricted Research Grant

Invited Academic Presentations & Discussions
2021
CSWEP session on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2020
Production Operations Management Society Annual Meeting
LMU Munich, Micro Workshop
National Bureau of Economics Research Innovation Summer Institute

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2019
National University of Singapore Strategy Seminar
University of Sydney School of Economics Seminar
University of New South Wales Applied Micro Seminar
Western Economic Association International Annual Conference
University of San Francisco Applied Economics Seminar
UC Merced Economics Seminar
2018
American Economic Association Annual Meeting, “New Perspectives on Time Use” Session PaperKenan Institute Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Conference
National Bureau of Economic Research Economics of Digitization meeting
Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting
Strategy Research Forum 2018
Second Annual Conference on Economists in Tech Companies
Wharton Corporate Strategy and Innovation Conference
2017
American Economic Association Annual Meeting, “Creating Entrepreneurs” Session Paper
National Bureau of Economic Research Economics of Digitization meeting (Discussant)Pacific Conference for Development Economics
5th AIEA-NBER Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
17th Annual REER Conference (Discussant and Presenter)
Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Management Seminar2016
UC San Diego Innovation, Technology and Operations Seminar
Harvard Business School Workshop on Innovation in a Global EconomyInnovation Growth Lab Global Conference: Research Meeting
New York University Stern Economics of Strategy Workshop
4th International Conference on Computational Sustainability
76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Advances in Field Experiments Conference, University of Chicago
Watson Institute Workshop on “The Platform Economy & Social Protection:from Speculation to Specification”, Brown University
2015
DRUID15 Conference on The Relevance of Innovation(Presenter and Discussant)Academic Workshop on Mobile Pastoralism, Index Insurance and Policy Innovations
Policy Workshop on Developing Policy Innovations for the Pastoralist Rangelands throughCross-Sector Partnerships (Panelist on Emerging Innovations using ICT)New Approaches for the Promotion of Innovation, Science and Technology: Bridging Japan and San Diego(Panelist on Science Policy and the Promotion of Innovation)
2014
London Business School
Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
Harvard Business School, Strategy
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute: Law & Economics Meeting(Presented by Mitch Hoffman)

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2013
CCC Colloquium for Doctoral Student Research
National Bureau of Economic Research’s Economics of Digitization: An Agenda Conference
Presented by Ajay Agrawal
35th DRUID Celebration Conference
Fourth Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation,Northwestern University (discussant)
SWEAT Seminar, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
CEPA Seminar, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
13th Annual Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research., Georgia Tech
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University
Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
2012
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute: Development andProductivity Meeting, Presented by Nicola Lacetera
National Bureau of Economic Research’s Economics of Digitization: An Agenda
Pre-Conference, Presented by Ajay Agrawal
2011
Rotman School of Management, Strategy 2011-2012 Seminar Series

Teaching2017-2019

UC San Diego

Start-Ups: From Founding to Launch; Innovation Policy & Management

2016 - 2020

UC San Diego

Innovation Policy

2014 - 2020

UC San Diego

Organizational Economics; International Management;

2013-2014

University of Toronto

Creative Destruction Lab Course

Journal Referee
Academy of Management Discoveries; AEJ: Applied Economics; American Economic Review; Economic
Journal; Information Systems Research; ILR Review; Journal of Economics & Management Strategy; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Public Economics; Labour Economics; Management
Science; Organization Science; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Research Policy; Review of Economics andStatistics; Strategic Management Journal; Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Affiliations
Asia Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association (AIEA); Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA);
Strategy Research Forum (SRF)
Non-Academic Positions
2013-2014

Associate Director, Creative Destruction Lab at Rotman
University of Toronto

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