Research Publications

The Melbourne Institute’s academic staff are active researchers, publishing their findings in books and leading Australian and international journals.

This section presents research published by the Melbourne Institute over the past three years. To view more of our research, visit our publications archives.

Books and Book Chapters

  • Headey B & Muffels R. 2018.  Mrs Aristotle’s Teeth: How SOEP Transformed Life Satisfaction Research. In  Erlinghagen M,  Hank K &  Kreyenfeld M (eds.),  Innovation und Wissentransfer in der empirischen Sozial- und Verhaltungsforschung,  Campus Verlag.
  • Mueser P, Ribar D & Tekin E. 2019. Food Stamps and the Working Poor. Upjohn Press.
  • Wooden M, Watson N, Leissou E & Guyer H. 2018. Best Practices for Panel Maintenance and Retention. In Johnson TP,  Pennell BE, Stoop IEL & Dorer B (eds.), Advances in Comparative Survey Methods: Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC), John Wiley & Sons.
  • Headey B & Muffels R. 2018. Welfare capitalism: The ten year impact of governments on poverty, inequality and financial risk in West Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. In Bäcker G (eds.), Combating Poverty in Europe. Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Kalb G & Azpitarte F. 2019. Measuring Income Poverty in Australia: A Review of Methods and Recent Trends. Revisiting Henderson: Poverty, Social Secruity and Basic Income. MUP.
  • Burkhauser R & Daly MC. 2018. Lessons the United States Can Learn from other OECD Country Disability Policy Reforms. In Besharov DJ & Call D(eds.), Labor Activation in a Time of High Unemployment: Encouraging Work while Preserving the Social Safety, Oxford University Press.
  • Burkhauser R,Hauser R, Couch KA & Bayaz-Ozturk G. 2018. Wife or Frau, Women Still Do Worse: A Comparison of Men and Women in the United States and Germany after Union Dissolutions in the 1990s and 2000s. In Corrigall-Brown C (eds.), Imagining Society: An Introduction to Sociology, SAGE Publications.
  • Williams R. 2018. Comparing and benchmarking higher education systems. In Hazelkorn E, Coates H & McCormick AC (eds.), Research Handbook on Quality, Performance and Accountability in Higher Education, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Payne A, Minaker B, Scharf K & Tonin M. 2018. The Impact of Government Funded Initiatives on Charity Revenues. In Scharf K & Tonin M (eds.), The economics of philanthropy: Donations and fundraising, MIT Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Botha F, Booysen F & Wouters E. 2018. Satisfaction with Family Life in South Africa: The Role of Socioeconomic Status.  Journal of Happiness Studies, 19(8): 2339-2372.
  • Botha F, Booysen F & Wouters E. 2018. Family Functioning and Socioeconomic Status in South African Families: A Test of the Social Causation Hypothesis. Social Indicators Research, 137(2): 798-811.
  • Botha F; Wouters E; Booysen F. 2018. Happiness, Socioeconomic Status, and Family Functioning in South African Households: a Structural Equation Modelling Approach. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 13(4): 947-989.
  • Castillo M & Freer M. 2018. Revealed differences. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 145: 202-217.
  • Castillo M, Jordan JL & Petrie R. 2018. Children's rationality, risk attitudes and field behavior. European Economic Review, 102: 62-81.
  • Bradbury B & Zhu A. 2018. Welfare Entry and Exit after Marital Separation among Australian Mothers. Economic Record, 94(307): 405-423.
  • Buddelmeyer H, Hamermesh DS & Wooden M. 2018. The stress cost of children on moms and dads. European Economic Review, 109: 148-161.
  • Diette TM & Ribar DC. 2018. A Longitudinal Analysis of Violence and Housing Insecurity. Economic Inquiry, 56(3): 1602-1621.
  • Kabatek J & Ribar DC. 2018. Not your lucky day: romantically and numerically special wedding date divorce risks. Journal of Population Economics, 31(4): 1067-1095.
  • de New J, Ribar D, Ryan C & Wong C. 2020. Financial Outcomes in Adolescence and Early Adulthood in Australian Longitudinal Data. The Australian Economic Review, 43(1): 126-138.
  • Watson N & Noah Uhrig SC. 2020. The Impact of Measurement Error on Wage Decompositions: Evidence From the British Household Panel Survey and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Sociological Methods and Research, 49(1): 43-78.
  • Kalb G. 2018. Paid Parental Leave and Female Labour Supply: A Review. Economic Record, 94(304): 80-100.
  • Kalb G, Kuehnle D, Scott A, Cheng TC & Jeon S-H. 2018. Health Economics, 27(2): E101-E119.
  • Laß I & Wooden M. 2020. Temporary Employment Contracts and Household Income, Social Indicators Research, (147): 111-132.
  • Tsiaplias S & Wang J. 2020. The Australian Economy in 2019-20: Slower Growth, Record Low Interest Rates and a Changing Housing Landscape. The Australian Economic Review, 53(1): 5-21.
  • Vera-Toscano E, Shucksmith M & Brown DL. 2020. Poverty dynamics in Rural Britain 1991–2008: Did Labour's social policy reforms make a difference? Journal of Rural Studies, (75): 216-228.
  • Zaresani A. 2018. Return-to-Work Policies and Labor Supply in Disability Insurance Programs. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 53(4): 2285-2302.
  • Creedy J, Gemmell N, Hérault N & Mok P. 2020. A microsimulation analysis of marginal welfare-improving income tax reforms for New Zealand. International Tax and Public Finance, (27): 409-434.
  • Jenkins SP. 2020. Perspectives on Poverty in Europe. Following in Tony Atkinson’s Footsteps. Italian Economic Journal, 6(1): 129-155.
  • Ashenfelter O, McFadden DL, Payne A, Potts J, Gregory R & Martin WE. 2020. Roundtable discussion on immigration. Contemporary Economic Policy, 38(1): 7-29.

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