Economics of Education and Child Development:
Recent Publications
Research publications produced over the past three years by the Melbourne Institute’s Economics of Education and Child Development research program.
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Refereed Journal Articles
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Policy Briefs
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Reform Options for State Property Taxes
John Freebairn (October, 2017) -
Uncertainty: Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Implications
Efrem Castelnuovo, Giovanni Caggiano (June, 2017) -
What are Best-Practice Programs for Jobseekers Facing High Barriers to Employment?
Jeff Borland, Mark Considine, Guyonne Kalb, David Ribar (June, 2016) -
Budget Deficits and the Dual Roles of Fiscal Policy
Guay Lim, Tim Robinson, Viet Hoang Nguyen (May, 2016) -
Nudges in Education: What Works?
Miles Tidmarsh, Paul H. Jensen (March, 2016) -
Housing Affordability: How Important is the Lending Rate?
Guay Lim, Sarantis Tsiaplias (January, 2016) -
Beyond Nudge: The Potential of Behavioural Policy
Reuben Finighan (July, 2015) -
Fiscal Debt Sustainability in Australia: Is it Feasible?
Efrem Castelnuovo (May, 2015) -
Budget Deficits and Fiscal Policies
Guay Lim, Viet Hoang Nguyen, Sarantis Tsiaplias (April, 2015) -
The GP Co-Payment: A Short Postmortem and a New Research Agenda on Medicare
Anthony Scott (March, 2015) -
Impact of the Australian Higher Education Funding Reforms
Chris Ryan (August, 2014) -
A Proposal for Industry-led Innovation Consortia
Elizabeth Webster (January, 2014)
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Reform Options for State Property Taxes
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Working Papers
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The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances: A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users
Julie Moschion, Nattavudh Powdthavee (2017) -
Probing the Effects of the Australian System of Minimum Wages on the Gender Wage Gap
Barbara Broadway, Roger Wilkins (2017) -
The Careers of Teachers in Australia: A Descriptive Study
Nikhil Jha, Chris Ryan (2017) -
Early Academic Outcomes of Funded Children with Disability
John de New, Cain Polidano, Chris Ryan (2017) -
Intergenerational Disadvantage: Learning about Equal Opportunity from Social Assistance Receipt
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Nicolás Salamanca, Anna Zhu (2017) -
Google It Up! A Google Trends-Based Uncertainty Index for the United States and Australia
Efrem Castelnuovo, Trung Duc Tran (2017) -
Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce
Jan Kabátek, David C. Ribar (2017) -
High School Choices and the Gender Gap in STEM
David Card, A. Abigail Payne (2017) -
The Impact of Government Funded Initiatives on Charity Revenues
Bradley Minaker, A. Abigail Payne (2017) -
Students Are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching
Jan Feld, Nicolas Salamanca, Ulf Zölitz (2017) -
Labor’s Share, the Firm’s Market Power and TFP
R. Dixon, G.C. Lim (2017) -
The Welfare Implications of Unobserved Heterogeneity
Sarantis Tsiaplias (2017) -
The Effect of Non-Permanent Contractual Employment on Financial Hardship
Neha Swami (2017) -
The Effect of Housing Assistance on Student Achievement: Evidence from Wisconsin
Deven Carlson, Robert Haveman, Sohyun Kang, Hannah Miller, Alex Schmidt, Barbara Wolfe (2017) -
Keep Calm and Consume? Subjective Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings
Barbara Broadway, John de New (2017) -
What’s Mine Is Yours: Sovereign Risk Transmission during the European Debt Crisis
Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo, Viet Hoang Nguyen, Yongcheol Shin (2017) -
Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK’s SPI Adjustment?
Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins (2017) -
Uncertainty and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks in the Euro Area
Giovanni Pellegrino (2017) -
Do Childhood Experiences of Parental Separation Lead to Homelessness?
Julie Moschion, Jan C. van Ours (2017) -
Economic Policy Uncertainty Spillovers in Booms and Busts
Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo, Juan Manuel Figueres (2017) -
The Power of Self-Interest: Effects of Education and Training Entitlements in Later-Life
Cain Polidano, Justin van de Ven, Sarah Voitchovsky (2017) -
Secondary School Teacher Effects on Student Achievement in Australian Schools
Chris Ryan (2017) -
The Bilateral Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Employment Status
Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, David C. Ribar (2017) -
Uncertainty and Monetary Policy in Good and Bad Times
Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo, Gabriela Nodari (2017) -
The Structure of the Wage Gap for Temporary Workers: Evidence from Australian Panel Data
Inga Lass, Mark Wooden (2017) -
Women’s Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies
Guy Johnson, David C. Ribar, Anna Zhu (2017) -
Uncertainty and Monetary Policy in the US: A Journey into Non-Linear Territory
Giovanni Pellegrino (2017) -
Motivation and Competition in Health Care
Anthony Scott, Peter Sivey (2017) -
Child Age and Gender Differences in Food Security in a Low-Income Inner-City Population
Robert A. Moffitt, David C. Ribar (2017) -
Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices
John de New, Syed Hasan, Nikhil Jha, Mathias Sinning (2017) -
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Unemployment in the United States: A Nonlinear Approach
Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo, Juan Manuel Figueres (2017) -
Estimating the Real Effects of Uncertainty Shocks at the Zero Lower Bound
Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo, Giovanni Pellegrino (2017) -
Women's Investment in Career and Household Division in Labor
Catherine Sofer, Claire Thibout (2016) -
Economic Research and Education Policy: Project STAR and Class Size Reduction
Moshe Justman (2016) -
Childcare Use and Its Role in Indigenous Child Development: Evidence from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children in Australia
Francisco Azpitarte Raposeiras, Abraham Chigavazira, Guyonne Kalb, Brad M. Farrant, Francisco Perales, Stephen R. Zubrick (2016) -
Long-Term Outcomes from Australian Vocational Education
Cain Polidano, Chris Ryan (2016) -
Parental Investments and Child Development: Counting Games and Early Numeracy
Chris Ryan (2016) -
What Happens to Students with Low Reading Proficiency at 15? Evidence from Australia
Chris Ryan, Cain Polidano (2016) -
Liquidity Traps and Large-Scale Financial Crises
Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo, Olivier Damette, Antoine Parent, Giovanni Pellegrino (2016) -
Gimme a Break! Identification and Estimation of the Macroeconomic Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks in the U.S.
Emanuele Bacchiocchi, Efrem Castelnuovo, Luca Fanelli (2016) -
Modest Macroeconomic Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks during the Great Moderation: An Alternative Interpretation
Efrem Castelnuovo (2016) -
The Effect of Changing Financial Incentives on Repartnering
Hayley Fisher, Anna Zhu (2016) -
Not Your Lucky Day: Romantically and Numerically Special Wedding Date Divorce Risks
Jan Kabátek, David Ribar (2016) -
Top Incomes and the Gender Divide
Anthony B. Atkinson, Alessandra Casarico, Sarah Voitchovsky (2016) -
Student and Staff Attitudes and School Performance
Brendan Houng, Moshe Justman (2016) -
Preschool Children’s Demand for Sugar Sweetened Beverages: Evidence from Stated-Preference Panel Data
Ou Yang, Peter Sivey, Andrea M. de Silva, Anthony Scott (2016) -
The Attitudes of Boys and Girls towards Science and Mathematics as they Progress through School in Australia
Chris Ryan (2016) -
A Short Note on Discrimination and Favoritism in the Labor Market
Nicolas Salamanca, Jan Feld (2016) -
What Can We Learn from Student Attitudes or International Achievement Tests?
Kyle Peyton, Chris Ryan, Justin van de Ven (2016) -
Vocational Education and Training: A Pathway to the Straight and Narrow
Nikhil Jha, Cain Polidano (2016) -
Impacts from Delaying Access to Retirement Benefits on Welfare Receipt and Expenditure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Umut Oguzoglu, Cain Polidano, Ha Vu (2016) -
Top Incomes and Inequality in Australia: Reconciling Recent Estimates from Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Richard V. Burkhauser, Markus H. Hahn, Roger Wilkins (2016) -
How Principals Affect Schools
Mike Helal, Michael Coelli (2016) -
Achievement Effects from New Peers: Who Matters to Whom?
Duncan McVicar, Julie Moschion, Chris Ryan (2016) -
Mental Health and Productivity at Work: Does What You Do Matter?
Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Mark Wooden (2016) -
Food Insecurity and Homelessness in the Journeys Home Survey
Nicolas Herault, David C. Ribar (2016) -
Revisiting Okun’s Relationship
Robert Dixon, G. C. Lim, Jan C. van Ours (2016) -
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Hospital Emergency Department Waiting Times and Demand
Peter Sivey (2016) -
Do Financial Incentives Influence GPs’ Decisions to Do After-Hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model
Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Jinhu Li, Anthony Scott (2016) -
Working-Time Mismatch and Mental Health
Steffen Otterbach, Mark Wooden, Yin King Fok (2016) -
Gendered Selection of STEM Subjects for Matriculation
Moshe Justman, Susan J. Méndez (2016) -
The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labour Supply and Employment Outcomes
Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Duncan McVicar, Bill Martin (2016) -
Parallel Trade of Pharmaceuticals: The Danish Market for Statins
Susan J. Méndez (2016) -
Use It Too Much and Lose It? The Effect of Working Hours on Cognitive Ability
Shinya Kajitani, Colin McKenzie, Kei Sakata (2016) -
Maternal Employment Trajectories and Caring for an Infant or Toddler with a Disability
Anna Zhu (2016) -
What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality Since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Richard V. Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen P. Jenkins, Roger Wilkins (2016) -
Risk and Return Spillovers among the G10 Currencies
Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo, Viet Hoang Nguyen, Barry Rafferty (2016) -
Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolas Salamanca, Anna Zhu (2016) -
Non-Linearities in the Relationship between House Prices and Interest Rates: Implications for Monetary Policy
G. C. Lim, S. Tsiaplias (2016) -
Why Do Boys and Girls Make Different Educational Choices? The Influence of Expected Earnings and Test Scores
Benoît Rapoport, Claire Thibout (2016) -
Happy Birthday, You’re Fired! The Effects of an Age-Dependent Minimum Wage on Youth Employment Flows in the Netherlands
Jan Kabátek (2015) -
Where Are the Returns to Lifelong Learning?
Michael Coelli, Domenico Tabasso (2015) -
Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Julie Moschion (2015) -
Robust Pro-Poorest Poverty Reduction with Counting Measures: The Anonymous Case
José V. Gallegos, Gastón Yalonetzky, Francisco Azpitarte (2015) -
Sibling Health, Schooling and Longer-Term Developmental Outcomes
Chris Ryan, Anna Zhu (2015) -
A Longitudinal Analysis of Violence and Housing Insecurity
Timothy M. Diette, David C. Ribar (2015) -
The Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimuli for Working Parents
Henk-Wim de Boer, Egbert L. W. Jongen, Jan Kabatek (2015) -
Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Anna Zhu (2015) -
Job Loss by Wage Level: Lessons from the Great Recession in Ireland
Brian Nolan, Sarah Voitchovsky (2015) -
Loss Aversion, Reference Dependence and Diminishing Sensitivity in Choice Experiments
Anthony Scott, Julia Witt (2015) -
Supplying Slot Machines to the Poor
Melisa Bubonya, David P. Byrne (2015) -
How Income Mobility and Income Growth Explain Income Inequality Trends
Nicolas Herault (2015) -
Can Having Internal Locus of Control Insure against Negative Shocks? Psychological Evidence from Panel Data
Hielke Buddelmeyer, Nattavudh Powdthavee (2015) -
Reducing the Generosity and Increasing the Conditionality of Disability Benefits: Turning the Supertanker or Squeezing the Balloon?
Barbara Broadway, Duncan McVicar (2015) -
What Factors Affect Doctors’ Hours Decisions: Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches
Guyonne Kalb, Daniel Kuehnle, Anthony Scott, Terence Chai Cheng, Sung-Hee Jeon (2015) -
The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia
Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Daniel Kuehnle, Miriam Maeder (2015) -
Sexual Identity, Earnings, and Labour Market Dynamics: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Australia
Joseph J. Sabia, Mark Wooden (2015) -
Measuring the Connectedness of the Global Economy
Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo, Viet Hoang Nguyen, Yongcheol Shin (2015) -
If You Get What You Want, Do You Get What You Need? Course Choice and Achievement Effects of a Vocational Education and Training Voucher Scheme
Duncan McVicar, Cain Polidano (2015) -
Financial Stress Thresholds and Household Equivalence Scales
G.C. Lim, Sarantis Tsiaplias (2015) -
How Do Drug Prices Respond to a Change from External to Internal Reference Pricing? Evidence from a Danish Regulatory Reform
Ulrich Kaiser, Susan J. Méndez (2015) -
Binge Drinking, Antisocial and Unlawful Behaviours, and Beverage Types
Ou Yang, Xueyan Zhao, Preety Srivastava (2015) -
The Employment Effects of Terminating Disability Benefits
Timothy J. Moore (2015) -
The Stress Cost of Children
Hielke Buddelmeyer, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Mark Wooden (2015) -
The Importance of Economic Expectations for Retirement Entry
Barbara Broadway, John de New (2014) -
A Bayesian Approach to Modelling Bivariate Time-Varying Cointegration and Cointegrating Rank
Chew Lian Chua, Sarantis Tsiaplias (2014) -
Estimating Fiscal Multipliers: News from a Nonlinear World
Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo, Valentina Colombo, Gabriela Nodari (2014) -
Locus of Control and the Labor Market
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark (2014) -
Evidence on Credit Constraints, University Attendance and Income Contingent Loans
Buly A. Cardak, Chris Ryan (2014) -
A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents
Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Mark Wooden (2014) -
NAPLAN Scores as Predictors of Access to Higher Education in Victoria
Brendan Houng, Moshe Justman (2014) -
When General Skills Are Not Enough: The Influence of Recent Shifts in Australian Skilled Migration Policy on Migrant Employment Outcomes
Justin van de Ven, Sarah Voitchovsky, Hielke Buddelmeyer (2014) -
A Journey Home: What Drives How Long People Are Homeless?
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Nicolas Herault, Rosanna Scutella, Yi-Ping Tseng (2014) -
Enforcing Compulsory Schooling by Linking Welfare Payments to School Attendance: Lessons from Australia’s Northern Territory
Moshe Justman, Kyle Peyton (2014) -
Monetary Policy Indeterminacy and Identification Failures in the U.S.: Results from a Robust Test
Efrem Castelnuovo, Luca Fanelli (2015) -
Quantifying Informational Linkages in a Global Model of Currency Spot Markets
Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo, Viet Hoang Nguyen, Yongcheol Shin (2014) -
Estimating the Expected Duration of the Zero Lower Bound in DSGE Models with Forward Guidance
Mariano Kulish, James Morley, Tim Robinson (2014) -
Harmonising and Matching IPR Holders at IP Australia
T'Mir D. Julius, Gaétan de Rassenfosse (2014) -
Attrition Bias in Panel Data: A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? A Case Study Based on the MABEL Survey
Terence C.Cheng, Pravin K. Trivedi (2014) -
The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
Robert Dixon, Guay C. Lim, Jan C. van Ours (2014) -
Uncertainty Shocks and Unemployment Dynamics in U.S. Recessions
Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo, Nicolas Groshenny (2014) -
Re-employment Expectations and the Eye of Providence
Sonja C. Kassenboehmer, Sonja G. Schatz (2014) -
Late Start with Extra Schooling: The Effect of School Entry-Age Increase and the Introduction of Preparatory Year
Nikhil Jha (2014) -
What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us about Discrimination against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom
Nattavudh Powdthavee, Mark Wooden (2014) -
An Introduction to the Patstat Database with Example Queries
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Hélène Dernis, Geert Boedt (2014) -
Income Inequality, Trade and Financial Openness
G. C. Lim, Paul D. McNelis (2014) -
Outcomes for Teenage Mothers in the First Years after Birth
Guyonne Kalb, Trinh Le, Felix Leung (2014) -
Measuring Adequacy of Retirement Savings
John Burnett, Kevin Davis, Carsten Murawski, Roger Wilkins, Nicholas Wilkinson (2014) -
Multidimensionality of Longitudinal Data: Unlocking the Age-Happiness Puzzle
Ning Li (2014) -
Identifying Tax Implicit Equivalence Scales
Justin van de Ven, Nicolas Herault, Francisco Azpitarte (2014) -
Recent Trends in Income Redistribution in Australia: Can Changes in the Tax-Transfer System Account for the Decline in Redistribution?
Nicolas Herault, Francisco Azpitarte (2014)
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The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances: A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users
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Books and Book Chapters
- 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.