HILDA Survey Research Conference 2013 - Papers
HILDA CONFERENCE 2013 PROCEEDINGS
Thursday 3 and Friday 4 October 2013
ISSN 2202-9923 (Online)
Published October 2013
Academic Committee:
- Professor Mark Wooden, Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne
- Professor Janeen Baxter, Australian Professorial Fellow, University of Queensland
- Professor Garry Barrett, Professor of Economics, University of Sydney
Best Paper Prize was awarded to:
Dr Xiadong Gong for his paper 'Channels of Labour Supply Responses of Lone Parents to Changed Work Incentives', authored by Xiadong Gong and Robert Breunig.
Selection Committee:
- Associate Professor Bruce Bradbury, University of New South Wales
- Professor David de Vaus, University of Queensland
- Dr Ann Evans, Australian National University
- Professor Steven Stillman, University of Otago
- Associate Professor Roger Wilkins, University of Melbourne
Best Poster Prize was awarded to:
Dr Nicole Au for her poster 'Self-Assessed General Health: What Does it Mean and What is it Hiding?', authored by Nicole Au and David Johnston.
Selection Committee:
- Professor Garry Barrett, University of Sydney
- Professor Janeen Baxter, University of Queensland
- Associate Professor Bruce Bradbury, University of New South Wales
- Associate Professor Peter Butterworth, Australian National University
- Dr Ben Edwards, Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Dr Ann Evans, Australian National University
- Dr Belinda Hewitt, University of Queensland
- Professor Steven Stillman, University of Otago
Refereed Papers (selected after refereeing of full papers):
- Dr Michelle Brady (Fransisco Perales)
Hours of Paid Work Among Single and Partnered Mothers in Australia: How Childcare Package Matters - Dr Lixin Cai
The Dynamics of Low Pay Employment in Australia - Dr Terence Cheng
Measuring the Effects of Removing Subsidies for Private Insurance on Public Expenditure for Health Care - Dr Xiaodong Gong (Robert Breunig)
Channels of Labour Supply Responses of Lone Parents to Changed Work Incentives - Dr Cahit Guven (Asadul Islam)
Age at Migration, Language Proficiency and Socio-Economic Outcomes: Evidence from Australia - Mr Syed Hasan (Robert Breunig, Mosfequs Salehin)
The Immigrant Wage Gap and Assimilation in Australia: Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter? - Dr Belinda Hewitt (Anne-Rigt Poortman)
Household Income After Separation: Does Initiator Status Make a Difference? - Associate Professor David Johnston (Nicole Au)
Too Much of a Good Thing? Exploring the Impact of Wealth on Weight - Dr Lars Kunze (Nicolai Suppa)
Job Characteristics and Labour Supply - Dr Jinjing Li (Alan Duncan, Riyana Miranti)
Underemployment Among Mature Age Workers in Australia - Dr Ha Nguyen (Luke B. Connelly)
Informal Care Intensity and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Instrumental Variable Panel Data Models - Mr Debayan Pakrashi (Paul Frijters)
Happiness Assimilation Amongst Migrants: Evidence from Australia - Professor Satya Paul
Reversing the Causality - Does Happiness Reduce Income Inequality? - Dr Paco Perales (Wojtek Tomaszewski)
Who Settles for Less? Subjective Dispositions, Objective Circumstances, and Housing Satisfaction - Ms Alexandra Spicer (Olena Stavrunova, Susan Thorp)
How Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: Evidence from Australia - Dr Stephen Whelan (Chris Ryan)
Age Pension Eligibility and Female Labour Force Participation - Mr Callan Windsor (Jarkko Jääskelä, Richard Finlay)
Home Prices and Household Spending
Non-Refereed Papers (selected on basis of abstract):
- Mr Tom Bilston (Robert Johnson)
Stress Testing Australian Households using the HILDA Survey - Dr Hielke Buddelmeyer (Duncan McVicar, Mark Wooden)
Non-Standard ‘Contingent’ Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis - Dr Andy Charlwood (David Angave, Mark Wooden)
Working Time and Cigarette Smoking: Evidence from Australia and Great Britain - Professor William Clark
Socio-Spatial Mobility and Neighborhood Outcomes in Australia: How “fluid” is Australian Society - Mrs Jane Fry (Clare Boulton)
Transition Pathways in HILDA - an Analysis Using Optimal Matching and Cluster Analysis - Dr Edith Gray (Dharma Arunachalam)
Patterns of Contraceptive Use - Ms Megan Gu
Retirement and Asset Allocation in Australian Households - Associate Professor Michele Haynes (Lachlan Heybroek, Belinda Hewitt, Janeen Baxter)
Parenthood and Employment Outcomes: The Effect of a Birth Transition on Men's and Women's Employment Hours - Ms Olena Kaminska
Tailoring Mode of Data Collection in Longitudinal Studies - Mrs Amina Keygan
Does Question Order Affect Reports of Childbearing Desires, Expectations and Intentions in the Household and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey? - Ms Inga Kristoffersen
The Age-Happiness Puzzle: The Role of Economic Circumstances and Financial Satisfaction - Dr Gianni La Cava (Callan Windsor, James Hansen)
`Tell `Em They're Dreamin': Self-Assessed Home Values and Household Belief Formation - Dr Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti (Santrosh Jatrana, Ken Richardson)
Investigating the ‘Healthy Immigrant Effect’ in Australia Using Fixed Effects Models: Findings from a Nationally-Representative Longitudinal Survey - Professor Michael Rendall (Allesandra DeRose, Frauke Kreute, Trude Lappegard, Lori Reeder, Marit Ronsen, Laurent Toulemon)
Employment Impacts on Entry to Parenthood in Different Family-Policy Regimes - Associate Professor Peter Siminski (Jason Lindo, Oleg Yerokhin)
Alcohol Policy, Drinking, and Health Outcomes in New South Wales - Ms Melanie Spallek (Michele Haynes, Andrew Jones)
Holistic Housing Pathways for Australian Families Through the Childbearing Years - Professor Steven Stillman (Malatha Velamuri, Yun Liang)
Measuring Individual and Household Saving in Australia - Dr Tsui-o Tai (Janeen Baxter, Fransisco Perales)
Gender, Justice and Work: A Distributive Approach to Perceptions of Housework Fairness - Dr Diana Warren
Pathways to Retirement: Evidence from the HILDA Survey
| 1 | Presenter: Associate Professor Elisa Birch, University of Western Australia Author/s: Andrew Lau, Elisa Rose Birch and Anu Rammohan (University of Western Australia) |
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| 2 | Presenter: Mr Evarn Ooi, University of Sydney Author/s: Evarn Ooi ( University of Sydney) |
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| 3 | Presenter: Ms Tania Sperti, Roy Morgan Research Author/s: Taylan Akay and Tania Sperti (Roy Morgan Research) |
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| 4 | Presenter: Dr Jinjing Li, University of Canberra Author/s: Jinjing Li ( University of Canberra) |
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| 5 | Presenter: Ms Inga Kristoffersen, University of Western Australia Author/s: Inga Kristoffersen (University of Western Australia) |
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| 6 | Presenter: Mr Suresh Joshi, Deakin University Author/s: Suresh Joshi, Santosh Jatrana and Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti (Deakin University) |
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| 7 | Presenter: Ms Tanja Kutscher, Freie Universität Berlin Author/s: Tanja Kutscher, Claudia Crayen and Michael Eid (Freie Universität Berlin) |
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| 8 | Presenter: Dr Samba Pasupuleti, Deakin University Author/s: Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti and Santosh Jatrana (Deakin University) |
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| 9 | Presenter: Dr Belinda Hewitt, University of Queensland Author/s: Belinda Hewitt (University of Queensland) Marieke Voorpostel (FORS, Switzerland) and Gavin Turrell (Queensland University of Technology) |
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| 10 | Presenter: Mr Brendan Churchill, University of Tasmania Author/s: Brendan Churchill (University of Tasmania) |
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| 11 | Presenter: Dr Nicole Au, Monash University Self-Assessed General Health: What Does it Mean and What is it Hiding? Author/s: Nicole Au and David Johnston (Monash University) |
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| 12 | Presenter: Dr Sonja Kassenboehmer, University of Melbourne The Link between Locus of Control, Wealth Accumulation, and Asset Portfolios Author/s: Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja Kassenboehmer (University of Melbourne) and Mathias Sinning (Australian National University) |
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| 13 | Presenter: Ms Andrea La Nauze, University of Melbourne Refuting Gay Stereotypes: Personality Traits Cannot Explain Sexuality Based Wage Gaps in Australia Author/s: Andrea La Nauze (University of Melbourne) |
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