Melbourne Institute Research Publications - 2015

Refereed Journal Articles

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, 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.