Dr Yi-Ping Tseng
Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Location
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Level 5, Faculty of Business and Economics Building, 111 Barry Street,
The University of Melbourne
Biography
Yi-Ping Tseng is a Senior Research Fellow in the Labour Economics and Social Policy research program. She received her PhD degree in Economics from ANU in 2000. Yi-Ping's research is primarily in Labour Economics and Applied Microeconometrics.
Research Interests / Current Projects
Yi-Ping's main research interests are program evaluation, economics of homelessness, housing economics and human capital investment. She is currently working on the following research topics:
- Economics of Homelessness
- Journeys Home Survey data collection and survey methodology papers
- Research using Journeys Home surveys
- Duration of homelessness
- The interaction between structure factors and individual risk factor on individual’s homelessness
- Child abuse, adult re-victimisation, and homelessness
- Health and homelessness
- Social network and homelessness
- Evaluation of social programs to assist very disadvantaged groups using randomised control trials. The programs include:
- ORYGEN IPS program: an Individual Placement and Support program (vocational intervention) for young people experiencing First Episode Psychosis.
- Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) program: an intensive 3-year program developed to address the underlying causes of a person's homelessness and equipping individuals with the skills to reconnect to the mainstream community and build social networks outside of the homeless subculture.
- Early Year Education Program (EYEP): an intensive, high-quality early education and care program for children at risk of abuse and neglect
Selected Publications / Papers
Cobb-Clark D., N. Herault , R. Scutella, and Y. Tseng (2016), A journey home: What drives how long people are homeless?, Journal of Urban Economics, vol 91, pp 57-72.
Johnson G., R. Scutella, Y.Tseng and G. Wood (2015), “Entries and exits from homelessness: a dynamic analysis of the relationship between structural conditions and individual characteristics”, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Final Report Series No. 248.
Johnson G., S. Grigg and Y. Tseng (2015), “Using a Randomised Trial to Evaluate an Innovative Homelessness Intervention: The J2SI Pilot”, chapter 8 in Creating and Implementing Public Policy, Cross-Sectoral Debates (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management), edited by Carey, G., K. Landvogt and J. Barraket, Routledge, the United Kingdom.
Polidano, C., D. Tabasso and Y. Tseng (2015)," A second chance at education for early school leavers", Education Economics, Vol 23, Issue 3, pp. 358-375.
Jordan B., Tseng Y.P., Coombs N., Kennedy A. and Borland J. (2014), “Improving lifetime trajectories for vulnerable young children and families living with significant stress and social disadvantage: the early years education program randomised controlled trial”, BMC Public Health 2014, 14:965.
Borland, Jeff, Yi-Ping Tseng and Roger Wilkins (2013) ‘Does coordination of welfare services’ delivery make a difference for extremely disadvantaged jobseekers? Evidence from the ‘YP4’ trial’, The Economic Record, Vol 89, No 287, pp 469-489. [Economic record 2013 best paper prize]
Killackey E, Allott K, Cotton SM, Jackson H, Scutella R, Tseng Y, Borland J, Proffitt TM, Hunt S, Kay-Lambkin F, Chinnery G, Baksheev G, Alvarez-Jimenesz M, McGorry PD (2013), "A randomized controlled trial of vocational intervention for young people with first-episode psychosis: method", Early Interv Psychiatry, 7(3), pp.329-37.
Wooden, M., Bevitt, A., Chigavazira, A., Greer, N., Johnson, G., Killackey, E., Moschion, J., Scutella, R., Tseng, Y., Watson, N. (2012) ‘Introducing Journeys Home’, Australian Economic Review, 45(3), pp368-378.
Borland J & Tseng Y. (2011), “Does 'Work for the Dole' Work? An Australian Perspective on Work Experience Programs, Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 43(28), pages 4353-4368.
Black D. & Y. Tseng & R. Wilkins (2011), "Do changes in demographic characteristics explain declining male employment rates? Examination of the Australian case using a propensity score re-weighting decomposition approach," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 43(28), pages 4215-4226.