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Steven Stillman is affiliated with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Their research predominantly spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, international relations, health professions, economics, and safety research. The scientist's work frequently appears in several academic venues, including the SSRN Electronic Journal, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, Health Economics, Scientific Reports, and Motu working paper.

They have produced research on topics that include:

  • Populism and right-wing movements
  • Electoral systems and political participation
  • Migration and labor dynamics
  • Migration, refugees, and integration
  • Ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence
  • Traffic and road safety
  • Media influence and politics

Recent papers by Steven Stillman include:

  • What Drives the Gender Wage Gap? Examining the Roles of Sorting, Productivity Differences, Bargaining, and Discrimination, 2020, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Maternal stress and birth outcomes: Evidence from an unexpected earthquake swarm, 2020, Health Economics
  • Immigration, labor markets and discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú, 2023, World Development
  • What determines preferences for an electoral system? Evidence from a binding referendum, 2020, Public Choice
  • The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

As a frequent collaborator, they have worked extensively with several co-authors including Isabelle Sin, Eugenio Levi, Federico Boffa, Giacomo Battiston, and Alberto Parmigiani.

Steven Stillman has also contributed to book publications, notably with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, where they published a work titled Immigration, Labor Markets and Discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Instrumental variables and GMM: Estimation and testing

    Christopher F. Baum;Mark Edwin Schaffer;Steven Stillman

  • Enhanced routines for instrumental variables/generalized method of moments estimation and testing

    Christopher F. Baum;Mark E. Schaffer;Steven Stillman

  • How Important is Selection? Experimental VS. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

    David McKenzie;John Gibson;Steven Stillman

  • Enhanced routines for instrumental variables/GMM estimation and testing

    Christopher F Baum;Mark E. Schaffer;Steven Stillman

  • The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery program

    John Gibson;David McKenzie;Steven Stillman

  • A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?

    David McKenzie;John Gibson;Steven Stillman

  • XTOVERID: Stata module to calculate tests of overidentifying restrictions after xtreg, xtivreg, xtivreg2, xthtaylor

    Mark Schaffer;Steven Stillman

  • XTOVERID: Stata module to calculate tests of overidentifying restrictions after xtreg, xtivreg, xtivreg2, xthtaylor

    Mark E Schaffer;Steven Stillman

  • The retirement-consumption puzzle: a marital bargaining approach

    Shelly Lundberg;Richard Startz;Steven Stillman

  • Migration and mental health: Evidence from a natural experiment

    Steven Stillman;David McKenzie;John Gibson

  • Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being

    Steven Stillman;John Gibson;David McKenzie;Halahingano Rohorua

  • IVREG210: Stata module for extended instrumental variables/2SLS and GMM estimation (v10)

    Christopher Baum;Mark Schaffer;Steven Stillman

  • IVREG2: Stata module for extended instrumental variables/2SLS and GMM estimation

    Christopher F Baum;Mark E Schaffer;Steven Stillman

  • How Important is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

    David J. McKenzie;David J. McKenzie;John Gibson;John Gibson;Steven Stillman;Steven Stillman

  • Accounting for Selectivity and Duration-Dependent Heterogeneity When Estimating the Impact of Emigration on Incomes and Poverty in Sending Areas

    John Gibson;David McKenzie;Steven Stillman

  • Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions

    Deborah A. Cobb-Clark;Mathias Sinning;Steven Stillman

  • Health and nutrition in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the decade of transition: a review of the literature.

    Steven Stillman

  • What happens to diet and child health when migration splits households? Evidence from a migration lottery program

    John Gibson;David McKenzie;Steven Stillman

  • CPI bias and real living standards in Russia during the transition

    John Gibson;Steven Stillman;Trinh Le

  • NUTRITIONAL STATUS DURING AN ECONOMIC CRISIS: EVIDENCE FROM RUSSIA*

    Steven Stillman;Duncan Thomas

  • Housing Markets and Migration: Evidence from New Zealand

    Steven Stillman;David C. Maré

  • THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON CHILD HEALTH: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM A MIGRATION LOTTERY PROGRAM

    Steven Stillman;John Gibson;David McKenzie

  • Why Do Big Firms Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from an International Database

    J Gibson;Steven Eric Stillman

Frequent Co-Authors

John Gibson
John Gibson University of Waikato
David McKenzie
David McKenzie World Bank
Mark E. Schaffer
Mark E. Schaffer Heriot-Watt University
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark University of Sydney
Christopher F. Baum
Christopher F. Baum Boston College
Jacques Poot
Jacques Poot University of Waikato
Richard Startz
Richard Startz University of California, Santa Barbara
Shelly J. Lundberg
Shelly J. Lundberg University of California, Santa Barbara
Frank Windmeijer
Frank Windmeijer University of Bristol
David R. McKenzie
David R. McKenzie University of Sydney

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