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Recent Research

• How Do Stamp Duties Affect the Housing Market?
• How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant (with Joshua Gans)
• How Much Did the 2009 Fiscal Stimulus Boost Spending? Evidence from a Household Survey
• Evidence-Based Policy: Summon the Randomistas?
• 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)

Recent Op-Eds and Popular Writing

• A Lesson in Education’s Value
• You’re Only as Old as they Feel
• Yours to (Hopefully) Spend

Wryside Economics (MP3 audio files)

• Nudging
• Fiscal Stimulus
• Size of Nations
• The Economics of Complexity
• Randomised Policy Trials
• Prediction Markets
• Paying Politicians
• Schools Reform
• Age and Innovation

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

On 30 November 2009, I will be running a conference on 'The Economics of Intergenerational Mobility'

• Program and registration form (for academic staff and full-time students)
• Program and registration form (for all other attendees)

Selected CV Highlights (full list of papers here)

• Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change? (with Paul Burke), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, forthcoming (conditional acceptance )
• Informal Care and Labor Market Participation, Labour Economics, forthcoming
• 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
• Long-Run Trends in School Productivity: Evidence From Australia (with Chris Ryan), Education Finance and Policy, 2009
• Estimating Teacher Effectiveness From Two-Year Changes in Students’ Test Scores, Economics of Education Review, 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)

Replication is an important aspect of empirical social science. Where possible, I have posted on this website the code and data for all my published research papers. Click on the Research (with abstracts) link.

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