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)
Last reviewed: 31 August, 2009

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Faculty of Commerce project, "Acknowledgement of Dharawal Country" (a film),  receives one of the University’s 2009 Community Engagement Grants. Further information and contact details here

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