Research and Research Support Staff

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  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. 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. 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

  7. 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

  8. Dr Kyle Peyton

    Senior Research Fellow
    (Income and Economic Wellbeing,
    Public Economics)

    • Experimental design and analysis
    • Poverty, socio-economic disadvantage and social exclusion
    • Drivers of income inequality and mobility
    • Survey Methodology

    +61 3 90355126

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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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