Research and Research Support Staff

  1. Professor A. Abigail Payne

    Director and Ronald Henderson Professor
    (Education and Child Development,
    Public Economics)

    • Determinants of student achievement
    • Student performance
    • Post-secondary education
    • Charitable giving
    • Government expenditure and behaviour
    • Taxation policies

    +61 3 9035 4266

  2. 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

    +61 3 8344 2092

  3. Dr Maxim Ananyev

    Research Fellow
    (Data and Analytics)

    • Data science
    • Causal inference
    • Machine learning
    • Panel data analysis
    • Political economy

    +61 3 9035 8347

  4. Dr Ferdi Botha

    Senior Research Fellow
    (Families and Households,
    Income and Economic Wellbeing)

    • Family and household wellbeing outcomes
    • Household financial decision-making and financial wellbeing
    • Poverty, socio-economic disadvantage and social exclusion
    • Subjective wellbeing

    +61 3 9035 4767

  5. Dr Barbara Broadway

    Senior Research Fellow
    (Education and Child Development,
    Families and Households,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • Early childhood development
    • Intergenerational disadvantage
    • Household finance
    • Labour supply issues tied to sub-populations (e.g. women, Indigenous Australians, medial workforce)
    • Social and tax policy as it relates to work incentives,
    • Workforce participation and dynamics

    +61 3 9035 4565

  6. 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

    +61 3 8344 5329

  7. Professor Marco Castillo

    Program Coordinator
    (Education and Child Development,
    Families and Households,
    Public Economics)

    • Determinants of student achievement
    • Early childhood development
    • Economic preferences of children
    • Effects of disadvantage on student outcomes and child development
    • Individual decision-making and incentives in education
    • Family and household wellbeing outcomes
    • Charitable giving

    +61 3 9035 7482

  8. Dr Diana Contreras Suárez

    Senior Research Fellow
    (Disadvantage and Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific,
    Education and Child Development,
    Health and Healthcare,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • 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
    • Domestic Violence
    • Early childhood development

    +61 3 8344 3567

  9. Dr Nichola Coombs

    Research Coordinator, Intensive Early Childhood Education and Care Research Project (IECECRP)
    (Education and Child Development)

    • Early childhood development
    • Effects of disadvantage on student outcomes and child development

  10. Dr Darcy Coulter

    Research Fellow
    (Education and Child Development,
    Families and Households)

    • Evaluations of correctional risk assessment tools
    • Applied correctional psychology and criminology
    • Longitudinal evaluations

    +61 3 834 41624

  11. Dr Sarah C. Dahmann

    Research Fellow
    (Education and Child Development,
    Families and Households,
    Income and Economic Wellbeing,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • Early childhood development
    • Effects of disadvantage on student outcomes and child development
    • Disadvantaged families
    • Family and household formation and dissolution
    • Intergenerational transmission of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage
    • Effects of policies and programs on welfare receipt & economic wellbeing

    +61 3 834 41331

  12. Professor John P. de New

    Professorial Fellow
    Program Coordinator
    (Health and Healthcare,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • Performance, incentives and competition in healthcare
    • Health Outcomes
    • Employment policy
    • Employment/unemployment over the lifecycle
    • Labour supply issues tied to sub-populations (e.g. women, Indigenous Australians, medial workforce)
    • Non-standard forms of employment
    • Social and tax policy as it relates to work incentives

    +61 3 9035 3811

  13. Mr Daniel Fischer

    Foundation Fellow
    (Data and Analytics)

    • Data engineering and documentation

    +61 3 834 42658

  14. Dr Sarah Fraser

    Clinical Research Coordinator
    (Education and Child Development)

    • Early childhood development
    • Effects of disadvantage on student outcomes and child development

  15. Dr Ana Gamarra Rondinel

    Research Fellow
    (Data and Analytics,
    Education and Child Development,
    Public Economics)

    • Bunching
    • Early childhood development
    • Taxation policies

    +61431229715

  16. Ms Brooke Garrard

    HILDA Database Support Officer
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Data quality
    • Data editing and documentation
    • Development and testing of CAPI scripts

    +61 3 9035 4184

  17. Ms Tanya Gupta

    Senior Foundation Fellow
    (Data and Analytics)

    • Panel data analysis
    • Interactive data analysis and visualisation
    • Data engineering and documentation
    • Effects of policies and programs on welfare receipt & economic wellbeing
    • Drivers of income inequality and mobility

    +61 3 834 42646

  18. Dr Jan Kabátek

    Senior Research Fellow
    (Education and Child Development,
    Families and Households,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • Early childhood development
    • Individual decision-making and incentives in education
    • Family and household formation and dissolution
    • Family and household wellbeing outcomes
    • Employment policy
    • Workforce participation and dynamics

    +61 3 8344 8674

  19. 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

    +61 3 8344 2095

  20. Ms Yashu Kalera

    Foundation Fellow
    (Data and Analytics,
    Families and Households,
    Income and Economic Wellbeing)

    • Web scraping and unstructured data analysis
    • Interactive data analysis and visualisation
    • Disadvantaged families
    • Family and household wellbeing outcomes
    • Intergenerational disadvantage
    • Intergenerational transmission of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage

    +61 3 8344 1598

  21. Ms Roopa Kamath

    HILDA Database Support Officer
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Data quality
    • Data editing and documentation
    • Development and testing of CAPI scripts

    +61 3 8344 4016

  22. Dr Ujjwal KC

    Research Fellow - Data Analyst/Data Scientist (Academic Specialist)
    (Data and Analytics,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • Web scraping and unstructured data analysis
    • Machine learning for policy evaluation
    • Interactive data analysis and visualisation
    • Bayesian decision/policy modelling
    • Data engineering and documentation
    • Employment policy
    • Workforce participation and dynamics

  23. Professor Guay Lim

    Program Coordinator
    (Macroeconomic Modelling, Forecasting and Policy Analysis)

    • Applied macroeconomics
    • Growth, employment and business cycles
    • Housing, mortgages and policy
    • Labour's Share of National Income

    +61 3 8344 2146

  24. Ms Ninette Macalalad

    HILDA Survey Research Database Engineer and Analyst
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Survey and reporting
    • Data quality
    • Data mining and analysis
    • Data management

    +61 3 9035 3275

  25. Dr Steeve Marchand

    Research Fellow
    (Education and Child Development,
    Labour Markets and Employment,
    Public Economics)

    • Effects of disadvantage on student outcomes and child development
    • Transitions from school to further education and training
    • Employment policy
    • Labour supply issues tied to sub-populations (e.g. women, Indigenous Australians, medical workforce)
    • Service delivery of welfare programs

    +61383442109

  26. Dr Susan Méndez

    Senior Research Fellow
    (Health and Healthcare,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • Government health policy and regulation
    • Public health
    • Analysis of healthcare markets
    • Production, pricing and market structure
    • Size distribution of firms

    +61 3 9035 6536

  27. Dr Mossamet Kamrun Nesa

    Survey Statistician/Methodologist
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Survey methodology
    • Imputation
    • Longitudinal surveys

    +61 3 8344 2535

  28. Associate Professor Viet Hoang Nguyen

    Principal Research Fellow
    (Macroeconomic Modelling, Forecasting and Policy Analysis)

    • Applied macroeconomics
    • Expectations and forecasting
    • Growth, employment and business cycles
    • Heterogenous behaviour
    • Housing, mortgages and policy
    • Linkages among economies and financial markets

    +61 3 9035 3621

  29. Dr Bill Pascoe

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    (Data and Analytics)

    • Interactive data analysis and visualisation
    • Humanities
    • History
    • Indigenous

  30. Professor Ragan Petrie

    Professorial Fellow
    Program Coordinator
    (Education and Child Development,
    Public Economics)

    • Determinants of student achievement
    • Economic preferences of children
    • Individual decision-making and incentives in education
    • Charitable giving

    +61 3 8344 0912

  31. 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

    +61 3 8344 2102

  32. Dr Kushneel Prakash

    Research Fellow
    (Health and Healthcare)

    • Family and household wellbeing outcomes
    • Subjective wellbeing
    • Mental health

    +61 3 8344 3031

  33. Dr Tim Robinson

    Senior Research Fellow
    (Macroeconomic Modelling, Forecasting and Policy Analysis)

    • Applied macroeconomics
    • Growth, employment and business cycles
    • Housing, mortgages and policy
    • Monetary policy

    +61 3 8344 2325

  34. Dr Miguel Ruiz

    Research Fellow
    (Data and Analytics,
    Public Economics)

    • Panel data analysis
    • Geographic Analysis
    • Social Housing

    +61480318015

  35. Dr Nicolás Salamanca

    Senior Research Fellow
    (Education and Child Development,
    Families and Households,
    Public Economics)

    • 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
    • Disadvantaged families
    • Family and household formation and dissolution

    +61 3 8344 2863

  36. Dr Rajeev Samarage

    Senior Research Fellow - Data Analytics and Program Coordinator
    (Data and Analytics)

    • Data analytics
    • Data visualisation
    • Data management
    • Data science using Python

    +61 3 8344 6327

  37. Dr Karinna Saxby

    Research Fellow
    (Health and Healthcare)

    • Health insurance and healthcare finance
    • Performance, incentives and competition in healthcare
    • Economics of primary healthcare services
    • Role of social disadvantage and health

    +61 3 8344 7753

  38. Ms Michelle Summerfield

    HILDA Deputy Director, Survey Management
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Survey management
    • Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing
    • Development and testing of CAPI scripts
    • Data management, editing and documentation

    +61 3 8344 2099

  39. Associate Professor Yi-Ping Tseng

    Principal Research Fellow
    (Education and Child Development,
    Families and Households,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • Early childhood development
    • Housing and homelessness
    • Employment services

    +61 3 8344 2132

  40. Associate Professor Sam Tsiaplias

    Principal Research Fellow
    (Macroeconomic Modelling, Forecasting and Policy Analysis)

    • Applied macroeconomics
    • Expectations and forecasting
    • Heterogenous behaviour
    • Housing, mortgages and policy

    +61 3 9035 3353

  41. 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

  42. Dr Jiao Wang

    Research Fellow
    (Macroeconomic Modelling, Forecasting and Policy Analysis)

    • Applied macroeconomics
    • Housing, mortgages and policy
    • Capital controls, shadow banking and monetary policy

    +61 3 9035 3565

  43. Associate Professor Nicole Watson

    HILDA Survey Co-Director
    Principal Research Fellow
    Program Coordinator
    (HILDA Survey Design)

    • Survey methodology
    • Weighting
    • Imputation
    • Longitudinal surveys

    +61 3 8344 2088

  44. 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

    +61 3 8344 2089

  45. Dr Ou Yang

    Senior Research Fellow
    (Health and Healthcare)

    • Health insurance and healthcare finance
    • Performance, incentives and competition in healthcare
    • Health behaviour
    • Substance abuse

    +61 3 8344 3857

  46. Associate Professor Jongsay Yong

    Principal Research Fellow
    (Health and Healthcare)

    • Health insurance and healthcare finance
    • Organisation, funding and performance of healthcare providers
    • Performance, incentives and competition in healthcare
    • Role and impact of funding and financial incentives in healthcare

    +61 3 8344 2121

  47. 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

    +61 3 9035 8785

  48. Dr Federico Zilio

    Research Fellow
    (Income and Economic Wellbeing,
    Labour Markets and Employment)

    • 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

    +61 3 9035 5062

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