Research and Research Support Staff

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Dr Inga Laß

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

    • Family and household formation and dissolution
    • Family and household wellbeing outcomes
    • Non-standard forms of employment

  12. 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

  13. 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

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