Ian Burns
Biographic Data
| ID | 1032286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Burns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Burns |
| SIGNATURE | BURNS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5351-5524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From scarcity to sustainability
Snakebite envenoming (SBE) causes substantial mortality and long-term disability in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), disproportionately affecting rural and economically vulnerable populations. Antivenom is currently the only approved snakebite therapy, yet chronic shortages, fragmented supply chains, high prices, and inconsistent product quality continue to undermine access, exacerbated further by persistent gaps in human resource capacity and health sy…
The Demography of Sweden's Transgender Population
We examine the prevalence of gender transitions in Sweden over time and document the sociodemographic characteristics of people transitioning in different periods. Using administrative data covering the transgender population from 1973 through 2020, we analyze two common events in a gender transition: the earliest diagnosis of gender incongruence and the change of legal gender. Our research note presents three main findings. First, the measured p…
Help Really Wanted? The Impact of Age Stereotypes in Job Ads on Applications from Older Workers
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring
We study the relationships between ageist stereotypes - as reflected in the language used in job ads - and age discrimination in hiring, exploiting the text of job ads and differences in callbacks to older and younger job applicants from a resume (correspondence study) field experiment (Neumark, Burn, and Button, 2019). Our analysis uses computational linguistics and machine learning methods to examine, in a field-experiment setting, ageist stere…
The Relationship between Prejudice and Wage Penalties for Gay Men in the United States
This article estimates the empirical relationship between prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuality and the wages of gay men in the United States. It combines data on prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuality from the General Social Survey with data on wages from the U.S. Decennial Censuses and American Community Surveys-both aggregated to the state level. The author finds that a one standard deviation increase in the share of individuals in a …
Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment
We design and implement a large-scale resume correspondence study to address limitations of existing field experiments testing for age discrimination that may bias their results. One limitation that may bias results is giving older and younger applicants similar experience to make them "otherwise comparable." A second limitation is that greater unobserved differences in human capital investment of older applicants may bias the results against fin…
Politics, Institutions, and Fiscal Policy
Politics, Institutions, and Fiscal Policy: Deficits and Surpluses in Federated States , Louis M. Imbeau and Francois Petry (editors), Studies in Public Policy; Toronto: Lexington Books, 2004, pp. 239. Despite the continual attention by the public, the media and politicians on governmental deficits, surpluses and governmental debt over the past decade, the political science literature in this area is sparse. When political scientists do venture in…
Repeated screening for breast cancer
In a screening service for breast cancer the results of routine repeat tests of women will contribute more than the results of their initial tests. A comparison of first and subsequent screens in a group of high risk women suggests that the sensitivity of screening declines between first and subsequent visits, whereas its specificity improves. Despite improved specificity, the ratio of benign biopsies to cancer was worse at repeated screening (21…
Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment
We design and implement a large-scale resume correspondence study to address limitations of existing field experiments testing for age discrimination that may bias their results. One limitation that may bias results is giving older and younger applicants similar experience to make them "otherwise comparable." A second limitation is that greater unobserved differences in human capital investment of older applicants may bias the results against fin…
The Relationship between Prejudice and Wage Penalties for Gay Men in the United States
This article estimates the empirical relationship between prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuality and the wages of gay men in the United States. It combines data on prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuality from the General Social Survey with data on wages from the U.S. Decennial Censuses and American Community Surveys-both aggregated to the state level. The author finds that a one standard deviation increase in the share of individuals in a …
The Demography of Sweden's Transgender Population
We examine the prevalence of gender transitions in Sweden over time and document the sociodemographic characteristics of people transitioning in different periods. Using administrative data covering the transgender population from 1973 through 2020, we analyze two common events in a gender transition: the earliest diagnosis of gender incongruence and the change of legal gender. Our research note presents three main findings. First, the measured p…
Repeated screening for breast cancer
In a screening service for breast cancer the results of routine repeat tests of women will contribute more than the results of their initial tests. A comparison of first and subsequent screens in a group of high risk women suggests that the sensitivity of screening declines between first and subsequent visits, whereas its specificity improves. Despite improved specificity, the ratio of benign biopsies to cancer was worse at repeated screening (21…
Repeated screening for breast cancer
In a screening service for breast cancer the results of routine repeat tests of women will contribute more than the results of their initial tests. A comparison of first and subsequent screens in a group of high risk women suggests that the sensitivity of screening declines between first and subsequent visits, whereas its specificity improves. Despite improved specificity, the ratio of benign biopsies to cancer was worse at repeated screening (21…
Politics, Institutions, and Fiscal Policy
Politics, Institutions, and Fiscal Policy: Deficits and Surpluses in Federated States , Louis M. Imbeau and Francois Petry (editors), Studies in Public Policy; Toronto: Lexington Books, 2004, pp. 239. Despite the continual attention by the public, the media and politicians on governmental deficits, surpluses and governmental debt over the past decade, the political science literature in this area is sparse. When political scientists do venture in…
Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment
We design and implement a large-scale resume correspondence study to address limitations of existing field experiments testing for age discrimination that may bias their results. One limitation that may bias results is giving older and younger applicants similar experience to make them "otherwise comparable." A second limitation is that greater unobserved differences in human capital investment of older applicants may bias the results against fin…
The Relationship between Prejudice and Wage Penalties for Gay Men in the United States
This article estimates the empirical relationship between prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuality and the wages of gay men in the United States. It combines data on prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuality from the General Social Survey with data on wages from the U.S. Decennial Censuses and American Community Surveys-both aggregated to the state level. The author finds that a one standard deviation increase in the share of individuals in a …
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring
We study the relationships between ageist stereotypes - as reflected in the language used in job ads - and age discrimination in hiring, exploiting the text of job ads and differences in callbacks to older and younger job applicants from a resume (correspondence study) field experiment (Neumark, Burn, and Button, 2019). Our analysis uses computational linguistics and machine learning methods to examine, in a field-experiment setting, ageist stere…
Help Really Wanted? The Impact of Age Stereotypes in Job Ads on Applications from Older Workers
The Demography of Sweden's Transgender Population
We examine the prevalence of gender transitions in Sweden over time and document the sociodemographic characteristics of people transitioning in different periods. Using administrative data covering the transgender population from 1973 through 2020, we analyze two common events in a gender transition: the earliest diagnosis of gender incongruence and the change of legal gender. Our research note presents three main findings. First, the measured p…
From scarcity to sustainability
Snakebite envenoming (SBE) causes substantial mortality and long-term disability in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), disproportionately affecting rural and economically vulnerable populations. Antivenom is currently the only approved snakebite therapy, yet chronic shortages, fragmented supply chains, high prices, and inconsistent product quality continue to undermine access, exacerbated further by persistent gaps in human resource capacity and health sy…
Economics (5 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Age discrimination (2 works) · Discrimination and Equality Law (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works)