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Recent Research

• Are State Elections Affected by the National Economy? Evidence from Australia (with Mark McLeish)
• How Much of the Variation in Literacy and Numeracy can be Explained by School Performance? (with Hector Thompson)
• Is Voting Skin-Deep? Estimating the Effect of Candidate Ballot Photographs on Election Outcomes (with Tirta Susilo)

Recent Op-Eds and Popular Writing

• Lucky Miners Can Dig Deep
• Keeping an Eye on the Ball
• Class in the Classroom
• Sorting Good Aid From Bad

Profile in the Australian Financial Review, 19-20 April 2008

Selected CV Highlights (full list of papers here)

2008 or forthcoming

• Inequality in Indonesia: What Can We Learn from Top Incomes? (with Pierre van der Eng), Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
• Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing (with Joshua Gans), Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
• Health and Economic Inequality (with Christopher Jencks and Timothy Smeeding), in W. Salverda, B. Nolan, and T. Smeeding (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality, 2009
• Top Incomes, in W. Salverda, B. Nolan, and T. Smeeding (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality, 2009
• Bringing Home the Bacon, Public Choice
• Are Ballot Order Effects Heterogeneous? (with Amy King), Social Science Quarterly
• Do Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality?, National Tax Journal
• Top Incomes in New Zealand 1921-2005: Understanding the Effects of Marginal Tax Rates, Migration Threat, and the Macroeconomy (with A.B. Atkinson), Review of Income and Wealth
• Estimating Returns to Education Using Different Natural Experiment Techniques (with Chris Ryan), Economics of Education Review
• Does Child Gender Affect Marital Status?, Journal of Population Economics
  
• Estimating the Impact of Gubernatorial Partisanship on Policy Settings and Economic Outcomes: A Regression Discontinuity Approach, European Journal of Political Economy
• How Much Do Public Schools Really Cost? Estimating the Relationship Between House Prices and School Quality (with Ian Davidoff), Economic Record

2007

• How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality?, Economic Journal
• Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries (with Christopher Jencks), Journal of Health Economics
• Intergenerational Mobility in Australia, Berkeley Electronic Press: Contributions in Economic Analysis and Policy
• The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia (with Tony Atkinson), Economic Record
• Minding the Shop: The Case of Obstetrics Conferences (with Joshua Gans and Elena Varganova), Social Science and Medicine
• Earned Income Tax Credits and Labor Supply: New Evidence from a British Natural Experiment, National Tax Journal
• Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?, Economic Record

2006

• Does Equality Lead to Fraternity?, Economics Letters
• Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths? (with Joshua Gans), Berkeley Electronic Press: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy
• Toying with Death and Taxes: Some Lessons from Down Under (with Joshua Gans), Economists' Voice
• Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets (with Justin Wolfers), Economic Record
• Trust, Inequality, and Ethnic Heterogeneity,  Economic Record

2005

• Deriving Long-Run Inequality Series from Tax Data, Economic Record
• Economic Voting and Electoral Behavior: How do Individual, Local and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?, Economics and Politics

2004

• Pulled Away or Pushed Out? Explaining the Decline of Teacher Aptitude in the United States (with Caroline Hoxby), American Economic Review

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