Multi-person Bargaining With Complementarity: Is There Holdout?
(with Prabal Roy Chowdhury, Indian Statistical Institute)

Students' Bias Towards Native Speaking Tutors

Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources (with Mark Rosenzweig & Junsen Zhang)

Authority, Delegation, and Incentives in Organization

Is Reaction to Terrorist Attack a Localised Event?

How Does Credit Access Affect Children’s Time Allocation? Evidence from Rural India

Temptation and Social Security in Altruistic Framework

The Scope of Aggregative Games

Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

A Mini-Lecture on Current Financial Crisis

How Do Pensions Affect Household Wealth Accumulation?

Mistargetting of Cash Transfers, Social Capital Destruction and Crime in Indonesia

Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges

Does Fiscal Policy Reduce Unemployment? Evidence from Pork-Barrel Spending (with Christine Neill)

Does raising teacher pay boost student achievement? A regression discontinuity approach (with Andrew Leigh & Damien Moore)

Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital, and Poverty
(with Zvika Neeman)

Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt
(with Juan Baron & Nisvan Erkal)

Tribal Casino Gaming and the Income and Health Effects on American Indians
(with Jessica Jakubowski, Robert Haveman, Hannah Goble & Marissa Courey, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

The Role of Education and Occupation in U.S. Social Mobility: A Glimpse Inside the Black Box
(with Kathryn Wilson, Kent State University & Timothy Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Labor Markets during Apartheid in South Africa

Substitution Effects in Parental Investments

Christian Dustmann
University College London

Growing Up in a High Crime Area and Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from a Random Allocation Experiment
(with Anna Piil Damm)

Vincent Hildebrand
York University

Height, Weight and Wage in Europe: A Semi-parametric Analysis

Ethnic Segregation in the Workplace
(with Albrecht Glitz & Uta Schoenberg)

Creating or stealing altruism? Material incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior

The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order

Workshop on British Economic and Social History

Modeling Heterogeneity in Consumer Choice Behavior: the G-MNL and MM-MNL models

John Quiggen
University of Queensland

Discounting, risk and equity in one easy lesson: What utility theory can (and can’t) tell us about climate change policy

Engineering Trust: Reciprocity and Strategic Behavior in the Production of Reputation Information

William Coleman
CBE

The Property Owning Democracy as Destructive of the Labour Monopoly Explanation of Unemployment

Dirk Bethmann
QUT

World War II, Missing Men, and Out-Of-Wedlock Chilbearing

Background Risk and Household Portfolio Choice: Bayesian Analysis of a Generalized Selection Model

Can We Explain Black-White Disparities in Infant Mortality?

Union Wage Effects in Australia: Evidence from Panel Data

Sambit Bhattacharyya
RSPAS, ANU

Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption

External Norms and Rationality of Choice

Michael Burda
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Many children left behind: The welfare effect of rural-urban migration

Household Income Mobility and Determinants of Income Change In Urban China 1992-2001

Choice and Allocation of a Risky Asset through Markets and Prices

Investigating the relationship between personality and wages in Australia

Mikal Skuterud
University of Waterloo

Immigrant Wage Assimilation: The Role of Model
Specification, Measurement Error, and Unobserved
Heterogeneity in Estimation

Productivity and Efficiency of China’s Coal Mines: The Impacts of Transition Policies and Reforms.

Emilson Silva
Georgia Tech

Equitable and Efficient Federal Structures with Interregional Redistribution, Interregional Spillovers and Regional Attachment of Heterogeneous Labor

Inequality and Physical Well-Being among Colored and White Men in the Cape Colony before 1900

Bill Griffiths
University of Melbourne

Posterior Distributions for Welfare Changes in Agricultural
Commodity Markets

Unequal wages for equal utilities

University Funding Systems and their Impact
on Research and Teaching

Is Terrorist Attack a Localised Event? Comparison of the Labour Market Effects of September 11 and London Bombing on Middle Eastern Residents in UK

Housing over the Life Cycle for Migrants

Spending time and money within the household

Does the Sophistication of Unemployment Insurance Use Grow with Experience?  Evidence on Learning Effects in Canada

Displacement of older workers: hastened retirement, disability, or other destimations

Bayesian Interpretations of Heteroskedastic Consistent Covariance Estimators Using the Informed Bayesian Bootstrap

Happiness Dynamics in Quarterly Data

The Role of the Annuity's Value on the Decision (Not) to Annuitize: Evidence from a Large Policy Experiment

No Child Left Behind in the United States

Central Bank Credibility When Agents Have Inferential Expectations

Conference - New Techniques in Development Economics

Conference - New Techniques in Development Economics

Economic Growth and Democratisation

Measuring achievement: Changes in risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Australia

Foundation Seminar - Big Decisions and Little Fish: Theory and Evidence on Competition, Uncertainty and Delegation in Firms

Labour Market Returns to Ability in Developing and Developed Countries

FDI and the labor share in developing countries: A theory and some evidence

The Influence of Early-Life Events on Human Capital, Health Status, and Labor Market Outcomes Over the Life Course

Special Workshop on Measurement Error

Net Foreign Assets, Productivity and Real Exchange Rates in Constrained Economies

The Relationship between Health and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from a Panel Data Simultaneous Equation Model

The roles of innovation, standardization and demand in the takeoff of the Portland cement industry

Any causal relationship between parental income support receipt and child mortality? An Analysis of a cohort of Australian children with the Second Transgenerational Data Set

Cannabis Use and Mental Health

The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes

Why Should State Government Invest in College Education?  An Equilibrium Approach For the US in 2000

Does employer based health insurance limit entrepreneurship?

Measuring the Welfare Effect of Entry in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Medicare HMOs

Heterogeneous wealth dynamics: on the roles of risk and ability

G. Brennan's Research Agenda

Representative wealth data for Germany: The impact of methodological decisions around imputation and the choice of the aggregation unit

Cancelled for the SPR(FaCSIA) Workshop

Disparate Interests: intra-household behaviour, firm dynamics and applications of non-parametric econometrics

Four Neat Tricks for Games in Public Economics

Choice of Insurance in Labor Market

CANCELLED

Estimating Spillovers using Panel Data, with an Application to
the Classroom

Regression Density Estimation Using Smoothly Varying Normal Mixtures

Dire Demographics:  Population Trends in Russia

Is Divorce “Really” that Bad for the Mental Health of Children?

Performance Incentives and the Dynamics of Voluntary Cooperation

Snooping Kuznets: We Just Ran A Billion Regressions. Forecasting US CO2 Emissions Using State-Level Data

Landmines and the Value of Statistical Life in Cambodia

Using Copula Functions to Simulate the Lifetime Earnings Paths of Higher Education Graduates

The Unemployment Volatility Puzzle: Is Wage Stickiness the Answer?

Generally General Equilibrium: Imperfect Common Knowledge and Confusion

Cancelled for Labour Econometrics Workshop - Aug 10 & 11th

Police-powers, Regulatory Takings and the Efficient Compensation of Domestic and Foreign Investors

Micro-credit, Fertility Decisions, and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh

The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China's Great Famine

Analysis of Health Outcomes and Health System Efficiency using Realisation of Potential Life Years Saved (RePLYS): Evidence from the OECD

Earnings Premia for Observed and Unobserved Skill in Australia: Evidence and Explanations

How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?

Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality: A Panel Analysis

Fair Trade

Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia

Labor Market Outcomes of Mexican Women in Mexico and the United States

The Dynamics of Learning in Manufacturing Establishments

Household- versus Establishment-Based Employment Measures: Can Issues with Measuring Self-Employment, Job Changing, or Multiple Job-Holding Explain Why Their Trends Have Differed?

Demographics and Performance in Economic Experiments: a Meta-Analysis.

Social Pension, Migration and the Anticipation Effect: Evidence from South Africa

The Career Decisions of Young Women

Parent's Perception of their Children's Weight

Good Friday

Crime in Developing Countries

Demographics, Ideology and Voting Behavior: A principal components analysis of state-wide ballot measures

The Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Monitoring in Language Teaching: Evidence from daily records of self-learning English-listening activities

Poverty Targeting and Impact of Micro-Credit Program in Vietnam

TBA

A Discrete Choice Model for Labor Supply and Child Care

TBA

Cancelled

Investigating the Determinants of Partner Abuse Against Women in Colombia

Sex Work and Infection: What's Law Enforcement Got to Do With it?

Development Failure

Predicting Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from New York City

A Constrained Coalitional Approach to Price Formation

No Seminar - Swan Lecture
Sir Anthony Atkinson, Oxford University

Give Leontief a Chance: aggregate versus occupational labour demand elasticities

Why has Health Inequality Among Infants Declined?

Division of Labour by Gender

The Political Economy of School Choice: Charter Schools, Open Enrollment and Competition in American States

No Seminar - Immigration Conference

Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britian

Wages Structures and the Distribution of Wages in Germany

The New Consensus in Monetary Policy: Is the NKM fit for the purpose of inflation targeting?

Sibling Effects in Child Labor

No Seminar - PhD Conference

No Seminar

A New Decomposition of the Wage Differential Between Genders

No Seminar - Swan Lecture

Measuring Health Achievement: should we us an index or a plane?

Culture and Fertility: Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain

No Seminar - Swan Lecture

The Effect of Tuition Fees on Students' Work in Canada

Public Health Insurance Reform and Healthcare Utilization in Urban China

Collecting Child Support Through the Tax System: Does this Affect Tax Payer Behaviour?

The Effects of Assortative Mating on Income Inequality: a decompositional analysis

No Seminar - Swan Lecture

Did the Australian Workplace Relations Act Increase Productivity?

When and Why Did Technical Change Become Skill-Biased?

The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity Within and Across Industries: Theory and Evidence

Estimating a Class of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models Without Exclusion Restrictions

The Performance of the Australian Macroeconomy: Ten Years of John Howard

Optimal Inequality: Experimental Evidence in a Tournament Setting

Solving Non-linear Models with Saddle-path Instabilities

On the Post-unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany

Head-content or Headcount? Short-term Skilled Labour Movements as a Source of Growth

Stochastic Dynamic Programming in Space: An Application to British Columbia Forestry

Bundling and Foreclosure (joint paper with Flavio Menezes)

Choice Under Uncertainty with the Best and Worst in Mind: Neo-additive Capacities

Decision Making Under Risk in Deal or no Deal

Effort Selection with Heterogeneous Dismissal Protection

The Market for Health Insurance with an Insurer of Last Resort

A Distributional Analysis of Gender Wage Differences in Australia

By Chance or Choice: The Regulation of the Apprenticeship System in Australia, 1900-1930

Assessing the Distributional Impact of Policy Change: Recent Developments in Microsimulation Modelling

A Test of Cross Section Dependence for a Linear Dynaic Panel Model with Aggressors

No Seminar - Good Friday

Why are High Ability Individuals from Poor Backgrounds Under-Represented at University?

Protection for Sale or Surge Protection?

TBA

Public Pensions, Income Security and Consumption

Death is Expensive, Why not Live Longer? "Health Expenditure Projections for an Ageing Population"

Income Inequality and Assortative Mating in Australia

Low Earnings, a Sticky Stepping Stone for Unemployment Benefit Recipients

Is Being in a Good Labour Market Bad for Your Health? The Impact of Skills and the Labor Market on Quality and Productivity in a Panel of Hospitals

Factors Driving Change in Australian General Practice

Elliott Fan
RSSS, ANU

Income Transfers and Elderly Immigrants in Canada

International Business Cycles. Theory and Evidence

Do Students Want to Succeed? Peer Group Choice, Social Influence, and Undergraduate Performance

Measuring the Shifting Returns to Skill in a Modern Economy

On the Links between Self Assessment Health and Labour Force Status: Evidence for Indigenous Australia

Youth Responses to Expected Income and‘Relationship’ Consequences in Nonmarital Childbearing Choices: Are Youths Rational?

Governance and Delivery of Anti-Poverty Program

Breaking the Cycle? The Effect of Education onWelfare Receipt Among Children of Welfare Recipients

A Model of the Link Economy

Some Recent Developments for Inference in Weakly Identified Structural Equations Models

Pharmaceutical Innovation and Cancer Survival: U.S. and International Evidence

Optimal Government Regulations and Red Tape in an Economy with Corruption

Evolution of the New Zealand Business Cycle

no seminar ALMR Workshop

TBA

TBA

Dismissal Costs and their Impact on Employment: Evidence from Australian Small and Medium Enterprises

Optimal Recall Length in Survey Design

Should Private Expectations Concern Central Bankers?

The Australian Business Cycle: A Coincident Indicator Approach

The Economics of Stockpiling of Antiviral Therapies for Use in Influenza Pandemic

The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking

How Much Does It Cost? Estimating the Costs of Motherhood by HILDA

Drought, Income and List Satisfaction

Marriage and Education

Random Walk Smooth Transition Autoregressive Models

How Reliable Are Survey Data on Welfare Reliance:
A Comparison of Australian Survey and Administrative Data

A Solution to the Ownership-Performance Puzzle

CDEP, Neighbourhood or Household Characteristics: What Influences an Indigenous Youth to Continue on at School

Measuring Global Poverty: Why PPP Methods Matter

Building and Linking a Microsimulation Model to a CGE Model: The South African Microsimulation Model

Dynamics of Internet Banking Adoption

Measuring Instruments in Economics and the Velocity of Money

A Hitchhikers Guide to Vocational, Education and Training Datasets

Impact of Health on the Ability of Older Australians to Stay in the Workforce

How Eligibility Criteria and Entitlement Characteristics of Unemployment Benefits Affect Job Finding Rates of Elderly Workers

No seminar - ACE Conference

“ Deal or No Deal”: A field experiment of risk aversion with very high stakes

Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China

Effects of Tax and Transfer Changes on Households with Children

People People: Social Capital and the Labour-Market Outcome of Underrepresented Groups

Patterns of Specialisation, Diversification and Factor Prices in a World Economy Model

The Influence of Consumer Confidence and Stock Prices on the US Business Cycle 1953-2003

Trade Policy and Migration Policy: Why the Difference?

What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Tba

The Welfare Expenditure Debate: “Economic Myths of the Left and the Right” Revisited

Financing Schemes for Higher Education

Powerpoint Seminar

Episodic Long Swings of Economic Growth: Japan 1885-1938

The Nature of Discrimination

Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality

Tba

What are the Right Questions?

School Achievement Effects on Subsequent Educational Attainment: Results from a Policy-Induced Natural Experiment

Unemployment and Psychological Well-being in Australia

Modeling Lifetime Health Care Costs: Insights from Australian individual health expenditure data

Finite-Lived Politicians and Yardstick Competition

Welfare Effects of Banning Genetic Information in the Life Insurance Market

Analysing Fertility

Levering Relationships: Vicarious reputation in a moral hazard supergame

Tba

Hospital Volume and Quality of Care: Selective-referral or Practice-makes-perfect?

Minimum Wages and Family Income

Real Wages and Unemployment in Interwar Germany

Institutions and Economic Growth: A Systems Approach

Licensing of Sequential Innovations

The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

What Does Increased Economic Inequality Imply About the Future Level and Dispersion of Human Capital?

Understanding Racial Disparities in Health: The Income-Wealth Paradox

Evaluating Poverty Alleviation Through Microcredit: Methodological and Empirical Evidence from Indonesia

Demographics, Social Security and International Capital Flows

The transition from paid employment to housewife: Examining the persistency in Japanese female labour markets

Some Economics of Immigration from an LDC to a DC. Stressing the Case of a Nordic Welfare State

Electoral institutions, parties, and the politics of class: Why some democracies redistribute more than others

Gay Glass Ceilings

Glass Ceiling or Sticky Floor? Exploring the Australia Gender Pay Gap by Quantile Regression and the Counterfactual Decomposition Method'.

Monetary policy with Randomly Distributed Lags

Family Labour Supply & Financial Constraints in Australia

Training and Union Wages

Training and Productivity in US Manufacturing

Nonparametric Estimation of an Additive Model with a Link Function

The Distribution of Top Incomes in New Zealand

Prices, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity

Back-to-front Down-under: Panel Data Estimates of Part-time /Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia

Third Party Anti-Dumping: a Tentative Rationale

Impact of income growth and economic reform on nutrition intake in urban China: 1996-2000:

Differentiated Winner Take All Markets Under Oligopoly: A General Result

Approaches to Modelling Relational Capital on the WWW

Are VAR models good enough for forecasting macroeconomic variables?

Fixed Wages and Bonuses in Agency Contracts: the Case of a Continuous State Space

Information and the Limits to Autocracy

Two Sided Learning and Optimal Open-Economy Monetary Policy

Endogenous Longevity and Economic Growth

Social Learning and Norms in a Public Goods Experiment with Intergenerational Advice

The Generator in the Problem of Social Harm

Transitions of part-time workers and the role of preferences: An analysis of the HILDA survey.

Ceasless Toil? Health and labour supply of the elderly in rural China

New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement

How Changes in the Benefits Entitlement Affect Job Finding: Lessons from the Slovenian ‘Experiment’

The Causal Effect of the Top University Graduation on Promotion: Evidence from the University of Tokyo’s Admission Freeze of 1969

CPI Bias and Real Living Standards in Russia During the Transition

Updating ambiguous beliefs: A theory, an application, an implication, and a test

Explaining Africa’s Growth Experience: Theoretical Models of Dictatorships, Ethnic Strife and External Conflicts

Auctions With an Option to Re-auction

Unravelling Financial Market Linkages During Crises

Networking Effects in the Creation of Graduate Schools

Risk Management in Procurement Auctions

Technological Innovation and Diffusion and the Growth of Outsourcing in US Manufacturing

Global Demographic Change and Labour Force Growth

Income Related Inequality in the Use of Medical Care in 21 OECD Countries

School Structure Effects on Literacy and Numeracy Performance

The Dynamics of Marginal Attachment in the Australian Labour Market

Make versus Buy predictions in the Grossman-Hart-Moore framework versus Williamson

How Well Do Individuals Predict Their Future Life Satisfaction? Evidence From Panel Data Following A Nationwide Exogenous Shock

Wealth Holdings and Portfolio Allocation of Older Couples: The Role of Spouses' Marital History

A Critical Analysis of the Governments Higher Education Reforms

Part-time Employment Traps and Childcare Policy

Modelling Health Outcomes in Order to Evaluate Treatments for Chronic Diseases: An Application in Type 2 Diabetes

The Effect of Marital Separation on the Economic Well-being of Australian Mothers and their Children: Estimates from the HILDA Survey

The Relative Influence of Peers and Friends in Higher Education

Survival Auctions

Contacts and Development

The Devil May Be in the Details: How the Characteristics of SCHIP Programs Affect Take-Up

Inter-household Allocations within Extented Households: Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Survey

Fiscal Stabiliser in Europe: Estimating the Responsiveness of Tax and Benefit Systems to Macroeconomic Changes

Work and Earnings of Low Skill Women: A Sobering Comparison of Survey Responses and Administrative Records

Modelling Health Outcomes in Order to Evaluate Treatments for Chronic Diseases: An Application in Type 2 Diabetes

Tax expenditures: the $30 billion twilight zone of government spending

Consumption Inequality & Intra-Household Allocations

Rational Adversaries? Evidence from Randomized Trials in the Game of Cricket

A Bound Analysis of School Completion Rates in Australia