Current Projects

Academic Productivity

• Disciplinary-Focused Research Performance in Australian Universities (Abbas Valadkhani and Simon Ville)
• Discipline-Specific Forecasting of Research Output in Australian Universities (Abbas Valadkhani and Simon Ville)
• Ranking and Clustering of the Faculties of Commerce Research Performance in Australia (Abbas Valadkhani and Simon Ville)
• Investigating Human Capital Externalities in Academic Research in Australian Economics Departments (Frank Neri and Joan Rodgers)

Education

• Analysis of the Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) Program in Undergraduate Subjects at the University of Wollongong. (Martin O’Brien)
• The impact of class attendance on academic performance of first year economics students. (Frank Neri)

Health

• The price-elasticity of demand for PBS pharmaceuticals for high income older people, a natural experiment. (Peter Siminski)
• A Welfare analysis of the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (Peter Siminski)

Household Finance

• Bayesian Analysis of the Two-Part Model with Fractional Response: Application to Household Portfolio Choice (Oleg Yerokhin with Olena Stavrunova (UTS))
• Two- Part Fractional Response Model for the Demand for Risky Assets (Oleg Yerokhin with Olena Stavrunova (UTS))

Household Time Allocation

• If Men did more housework, would women have more babies? (Lyn Craig & Peter Siminski)

Labour Markets

• The Reserve Army of Labour: An Analysis of Older Worker Labour Markets in OECD Countries in the Context of an Ageing Society. (Martin O’Brien)
• The Youth Labour Market in Australia: An analysis of education, employment, and Work Choices legislation. (Martin O’Brien)
• What Would Public Sector Workers be Paid under Private Sector Principles? (Peter Siminski)

Military Service

• The Causal Effect of the Vietnam War on Australian Conscripts (Income; Employment; Disability; Relationships) (Peter Siminski & Simon Ville)

Poverty, Inequality & Welfare

• Contributions of Longitudinal Data to Poverty Measurement in Australia. (Joan Rodgers, John Rodgers)
• Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Australia. (Joan Rodgers, John Rodgers)
• Changes in Poverty Rates During the Howard Era.
  (Joan Rodgers, Peter Siminski, James Bishop)
• Methodological Choices in the Measurement of Poverty.
  (Joan Rodgers, John Rodgers)
• The Working Poor. (Joan Rodgers, Doug Robson, James Bishop)
• Why Do Older People Report Less Hardship? (Peter Siminski, Oleg Yerokhin)
• Partial Identification of the Prevalence of Material Hardship in Presence of Reporting Errors (Oleg Yerokhin)

Social Capital

• Social capital renewal and academic performance of international students in Australia. (Frank Neri, Simon Ville)
• Volunteering and Productivity (Frank Neri)
• Industry associations as facilitators of social capital: the establishment and early operations of the Melbourne Woolbrokers Association (Simon Ville with David Merrett (U. Melbourne), Stephen Morgan (U. Nottingham UK)
• Industry association theory (Ville)
• Relationship marketing history (Ville)