Research staff
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Professor Roger Wilkins
Deputy Director and HILDA Survey Co-Director
(Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Effects of policies and programs on welfare receipt & economic wellbeing
- Household financial decision-making and financial wellbeing
- Personal income and wealth distribution
- Poverty, socio-economic disadvantage and social exclusion
- Drivers of income inequality and mobility
- Employment/unemployment over the lifecycle
- Workforce participation and dynamics
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Professor Lisa Cameron
Professorial Fellow
Program Coordinator
(Disadvantage and Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific,
Education and Child Development,
Families and Households,
Health and Healthcare,
Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Criminalisation of sex-work
- Gender inequality in labour markets
- Health services access
- Impact of cash transfers on child development
- Sanitation impacts on child health
- Wellbeing of people living with a disability
- Early childhood development
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Professor Guyonne Kalb
Program Director
(Education and Child Development,
Families and Households,
Health and Healthcare,
Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment,
Public Economics)- Labour supply with a focus on female labour force participation
- Impact of social policy on labour supply
- Impact of tax and transfer policies on labour supply
- Parental leave and family policies
- Impact of childcare and early childhood development
- Effects of disadvantage on child development
- Individual health outcomes
- Healthcare workforce and the labour market
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Professor Mark Wooden
Professorial Fellow
(Families and Households,
Health and Healthcare,
Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Family and household wellbeing outcomes
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Intergenerational transmission of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage
- Employment/unemployment over the lifecycle
- Non-standard forms of employment
- Working time
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Professor Yuting Zhang
Professorial Fellow
(Disadvantage and Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific,
Health and Healthcare,
Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Financing and organisation of healthcare systems
- Value-based healthcare
- International healthcare reforms, focusing on Australia, US, and China
- Health insurance design and healthcare market competition
- Economic evaluations of health policies
- Mental health policy
- Pharmaceutical policy and economics
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- Family and household wellbeing outcomes
- Household financial decision-making and financial wellbeing
- Poverty, socio-economic disadvantage and social exclusion
- Subjective wellbeing
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Associate Professor Cain Polidano
Senior Research Fellow
(Education and Child Development,
Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Determinants of student achievement
- Early childhood development
- Effects of disadvantage on student outcomes and child development
- Individual decision-making and incentives in education
- Design and performance of schools and other educational institutions
- Transitions from school to further education and training
- Effects of policies and programs on welfare receipt & economic wellbeing
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- Employment policy
- Effects of policies and programs on welfare recipients and economic wellbeing
- Poverty socio-economic disadvantage and social exclusion
- Effect of policies on health outcomes
- Relation between health and consumption and income dynamics
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Dr Esperanza Vera-Toscano
Senior Research Fellow
(Families and Households,
Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Disadvantaged families
- Family and household wellbeing outcomes
- Intergenerational disadvantage
- Household finance
- Poverty, socio-economic disadvantage and social exclusion
- Drivers of income inequality and mobility
- Workforce participation and dynamics