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Recent Research

• Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats? (with Dan Andrews and Christopher Jencks)
• Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence From Three Experiments (with Alison Booth and Elena Varganova) (media release, brief summary of results)
• Does Size Matter in Australia? (with Michael Kortt)
• Does Fiscal Policy Reduce Unemployment? Evidence from Pork-Barrel Spending (with Christine Neill)
• What Evidence Should Social Policymakers Use?

Recent Op-Eds and Popular Writing

• Age No Bar to Brilliance
• Chasing Value for Money
• Culture Key to Share Plans

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

On 12 March 2009, Chikako Yamauchi and myself organised a conference at ANU on 'The Economics of Childcare'. Here is the program, and here is a 2-page summary of proceedings. Full papers currently available: Bernal & Keane, Blau & van der Klaauw, Yamauchi.

 

Selected CV Highlights (full list of papers here)

• Inequality in Indonesia: What Can We Learn from Top Incomes? (with Pierre van der Eng), Journal of Public Economics, 2009
• Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing (with Joshua Gans), Journal of Public Economics, 2009
• Does the World Economy Swing National Elections? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009
• Does Child Gender Affect Marital Status?, Journal of Population Economics, 2009
• Estimating Returns to Education Using Different Natural Experiment Techniques (with Chris Ryan), Economics of Education Review, 2008
• How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality?, Economic Journal, 2007
• Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries (with Christopher Jencks), Journal of Health Economics, 2007
• Does Equality Lead to Fraternity?, Economics Letters, 2006
• Pulled Away or Pushed Out? Explaining the Decline of Teacher Aptitude in the United States (with Caroline Hoxby), American Economic Review, 2004

A short article outlining a range of options for Australians to Study at Harvard (see also the AAAF fellowships, Monash awards, and the Harvard loans program)

Inequality datasets

• Top income shares for 13 developed countries (paper, data)
• Indonesian top incomes 1920-2004 (paper, data)
• Male gini coefficients for Australia 1942-2001 (paper, data)
• Hourly wage inequality across US states 1977-2002 (paper, data)
• Household income inequality across US states 1963-2002 (paper, data)
• Andrew Clarkwest's household income inequality by race across US states 1970-2000 (paper, documentation, data)

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