Melbourne Institute Research Publications - 2015

Refereed Journal Articles

Angrave D, Charlwood A & Wooden M. 2015. Long working hours and physical activity'. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 69 (8): 738-744.

Barón, J, Cobb-Clark D & Erkal N. 2015. Welfare receipt and the intergenerational transmission of work-welfare norms. Southern Economic Journal. 82 (1): 208–234.

Buddelmeyer H, McVicar D & Wooden M. 2015. Non-standard ‘contingent’ employment and job satisfaction: A panel data analysis. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society. 54(2): 256-275.

Burkhauser R, Fisher T, Houtenville A & Tennant J. 2015. Is the 2010 Affordable Care Act minimum standard to identify disability in all national datasets good enough for policy purposes? Journal of Economic and Social Measurement. 39 (4): 217-245.

Burkhauser R, Hahn M & Wilkins R. 2015. Measuring top incomes using tax record data: a cautionary tale from Australia. Journal of Economic Inequality. 13(2): 181-205.

Caggiano G, Castelnuovo E, Colombo V, & Nodari G. 2015. Estimating Fiscal Multipliers: News from a Nonlinear World. The Economic Journal. 125 (584): 746-776.

Caliendo M, Cobb-Clark D & Uhlendorff A. 2015. Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies. Review of Economics and Statistics. 97 (1): 88-103.

Castelnuovo E & Fanelli L. 2015. Monetary Policy Indeterminacy and Identification Failures in the U.S.: Results from A Robust Test. Journal of Applied Econometrics. 30 (6): 924–947.

Cheng T, Haisken-DeNew J & Yong J. 2015. Cream skimming and hospital transfers in a mixed public-private system. Social Science & Medicine. 132 (May): 156-164.

Cobb-Clark D. 2015. Locus of control and the labour market. IZA Journal of Labor Economics. 4:3.

Cobb-Clark D, Kassenboehmer S, Le T, McVicar D & Zhang R. 2015. Is There an Educational Penalty for Being Suspended from School? Education Economics. 23 (4): 376-295.

Cobb-Clark D, Kassenboehmer S, Le T, McVicar D & Zhang R. 2015. 'High'-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes. The Economic Record. 91 (293): 247-266.

Creedy J & Herault N. 2015. Decomposing Inequality Changes: Allowing for Leisure in the Evaluation of Tax and Transfer Policy Effects. Fiscal Studies. 36 (2): 157-180.

Drouvelis M, Metcalfe R & Powdthavee N. 2015. Can priming cooperation increase public good contributions? Theory and Decision. 79 (3): 479-492.

Drouvelis M & Powdthavee N. 2015. Are happier people less judgmental of other people’s selfish behaviours? Experimental survey evidence from trust and gift exchange games. Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics. 58 (October): 111-123.

Faulkner N, Martin A & Peyton K. 2015.Priming political trust: Evidence from an experiment. Australian Journal of Political Science. 50 (1): 164-173.

Fok Y, Scutella R & Wilkins R. 2015. The Low-Pay No-Pay Cycle: Are There Systematic Differences across Demographic Groups? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 77 (6): 872-896.

Gregg P, Scutella R & Vittori C. 2015. Individual Earnings Mobility and the Persistence of Earnings Inequalities in Australia. Economic Record. 91: 16–37.

Herault N & Azpitarte F. 2015. Recent Trends in Income Redistribution in Australia: Can Changes in the Tax-Benefit System Account for the Decline in Redistribution?. Economic Record. 91: 38–53.

Herault N, Kalb G & Zakirova R. 2015. A Study into the Persistence of Living in a Jobless Household. The Economic Record. 91 (293): 209-232.

Herault N & Zakirova R. 2015. Returns to Education: Accounting for Enrolment and Completion Effects. Education Economics. 23 (1): 84-100.

Jensen P, Palangkaraya A. & Webster E. 2015. Trust and the market for technology. Research Policy. 44(2), 340-56.

Jha N. 2015. Late Start with Extra Schooling: The Effectof Increase in School Entry Age and Preschool Provision. The Economic Record. 91 (s1): 54-77.

Justman M. & van der Beek K. 2015. Market forces shaping human capital in eighteenth-century London. The Economic History Review. 68 (4): 1177–1202.

Kalb G, Le T & Leung F. 2015. Outcomes for Teenage Mothers in the First Years after Birth. Australian Journal of Labour Economics. 18 (3): 255-279.

Larrimore J, Burkhauser R & Armour P. 2015. Accounting for income changes over the Great Recession: the importance of taxes and transfers. National Tax Journal. 68 (2): 281-318.

Lee C.L.K, Sethuraman K & Yong J. 2015. On the Hospital Volume and Outcome Relationship: Does Specialization Matter More Than Volume? Health Services Research. 50 (6): 2019-2036.

Li J & Powdthavee N. 2015. Does more education lead to better health habits? Evidence from the school reforms in Australia. Social Science & Medicine. 127: 83-91.

Lillard D, Burkhauser R, Hahn M & Wilkins R. 2015. Does early-life income inequality predict self-reported health in later life? evidence from the United States. Social Science and Medicine. 128: 347-355.

Lim G.C. & Nguyen V. H. 2015. Alternative Weighting Approaches to Computing Indexes of Economic Activity. Journal of Economic Surveys. 29: 287–300.

McIsaac M, Scott A & Kalb G. 2015. The supply of General Practitioners across local areas: accounting for spatial heterogeneity. BMC Health Services Research. 15:450.

McVicar D, Moschion J & van Ours J. 2015. From substance use to homelessness or vice versa? Social Science & Medicine. 136-137 (July): 89-98.

Polidano C, Tabasso D & Tseng Y-P. 2015.A second chance at education for early school leavers. Education Economics. 23 (3): 358-375.

Polidano C & Vu H. 2015. Differential labour market impacts from disability onset. Health Economics. 24 (3): 302-317.

Powdthavee N, Lekfuangu W & Wooden M. 2015. What’s the good of education for overall quality of life? A structural equation model of education and life satisfaction for Australia. Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. 54 (1): 10-21.

Powdthavee N & Riyanto Y.E. 2015. Would you pay for transparently useless advice? A test of boundaries of beliefs in the folly of predictions. Review of Economics and Statistics. 97 (2): 242-256.

Powdthavee N & Wooden M. 2015. Life satisfaction and sexual minorities? Evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 116: 107-126.

Ribar D. 2015. Is Leaving Home a Hardship? Southern Economic Journal. 81 (3): 598-618.

Ribar D. 2015. Why Marriage Matters for Child Wellbeing. The Future of Children Princeton Brookings. 25 (2)

Robinson T, Tsiaplias S & Nguyen V. H. 2015. The Australian Economy in 2014–15: An Economy in Transition. Australian Economic Review. 48: 1-14.

Scott A, Witt J, Duffield C & Kalb G. 2015. What do nurses and midwives value about their jobs? Results from a discrete choice experiment. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. 20 (1): 31-38.

Song K, Scott A, Sivey P & Meng Q. 2015. Improving Chinese Primary Care Providers’ Recruitment and Retention: A Discrete Choice Experiment. Health Policy and Planning. 30 (1): 68-77.

Suziedelyte A & Zhu A. 2015. Does early schooling narrow outcome gaps for advant aged and disadvantaged children? Economics of Education Review. 45: 76-88.

Watson N & Wilkins R. 2015. Design Matters: The Impact of CAPI on Interview Length. Field Methods. 27 (3): 244-264.

Wilkins R. 2015. Measuring Income Inequality in Australia. Australian Economic Review. 48 (1): 93-102.

Yong J & Scott A. 2015. Do new workforce roles reduce waiting times in ED? A difference-in-difference evaluation using hospital administrative data. Health Policy. 119: 488-493.

Zhu A & Bradbury B. 2015. Delaying School Entry: Short- and Longer-Term Effect on Mothers' Employment. The Economic Record. 91 (293): 233-246.