About

Amalia Miller is the Department Chair and Georgia S. Bankard Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. Her fields of interest include Law and Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University. Her research focuses on issues related to economic policy in these areas, contributing to the understanding of how legal frameworks, labor markets, and health economics intersect and influence economic outcomes.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Economics
• Medicine
• Management
• Economic growth
• Labour economics
• Demographic economics
• Library science
• Business
• Criminology
• Biology
• Pedagogy
• Medical emergency

Selected publications

• A Gender Quota for Top Executives: Diversity without Disruption

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01

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• Girls’ Night In? Effects of the Kenyan COVID-19 Lockdown on Web Browsing

  Review of Industrial Organization · 2025-04-01

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  Abstract We present the first objective evidence on how COVID-19 lockdowns affected internet browser usage in Africa: We use detailed digital trace data on PC-based and mobile-based browsing patterns of 316 Kenyans who had access to a PC. Our data cover the period before and during Kenya’s first national COVID-19 curfew, which was declared on March 25, 2020. We find that total daily browser usage increased by 41 minutes, or 15 percent of average browsing time, after the curfew started. We find no significant differences in total browsing time during the curfew by gender or by residence in high-speed versus low-speed broadband access areas. However, we do find gender differences in the content of browsing. Women’s time on YouTube and Netflix exceeded men’s from the start of our sample period, and the gender gap in Netflix browsing increased by 36 minutes daily, which corresponds to almost twice the average daily Netflix time in the sample. Men’s browsing became less concentrated during the curfew, across both domains and topics– but women’s did not. The degree of overlap in browsing between men and women also increased: This was likely due to men visiting sites that were previously exclusively visited by women. Across the entire sample, browsing of Kenyan domains dropped significantly relative to that of non-Kenyan domains, which indicates greater reliance on international content during this period of economic and social upheaval.

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• Effects of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence in the United States

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2025-03-14

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• Did Board Gender Quotas Break the Glass Ceiling in Europe?

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• Did Board Gender Quotas Break the Glass Ceiling in Europe?

  AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2025-05-01 · 3 citations

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  Nine European countries adopted gender quotas for companies' boards of directors between 2005 and 2021 before the European Parliament adopted an EU-wide quota in 2022. Using 25 years of data, we estimate the quotas' effects on female shares of corporate directors and senior executives of large public companies. We find that while the female share of nonexecutive directors increased by 20 percentage points within 6 years after a quotas' adoption, women's representation among CEOs or other senior executives hardly changed. These results suggest that policymakers interested in increasing gender diversity among senior executives might need to consider more targeted policies.

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• Algorithmic Bias and Historical Injustice: Race and Digital Profiling

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access
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• Algorithmic Bias and Historical Injustice: Race and Digital Profiling

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access
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• Effects of COVID-19 Shutdowns on Domestic Violence in the U.S

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

  articleOpen access
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• Competitive workplaces don’t work for gender equality

  2024-03-29

  article1st authorCorresponding
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• Girls’ Night in? Effects of the Kenyan COVID-19 Lockdown on Web Browsing

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

  articleOpen access
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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R03HD061514

  NIH · $179k · 2013

Frequent coauthors

• Catherine E. Tucker

  46 shared

• Carmit Segal

  29 shared

• David A. Matsa

  29 shared

• Astrid Kunze

  23 shared

• Carole Roan Gresenz

  Georgetown University

  20 shared

• Ragan Petrie

  11 shared

• Melissa K. Spencer

  University of Richmond

  8 shared

• Jeremy Burke

  7 shared

Education

• PhD, Economics

  Stanford University

  2004

• SB, Economics

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1999