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CHSCR welcomes new members

CHSCR gained four quality academic experts, including Dr Silvia Mendolia as a member as well as Dr Benoit Freyens, Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Canberra, Assistant Professor Jason Lindo, Visiting Principal Fellow, School of Economics, UOW, and Dr Roger Patulny, Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW as Associate Members.

Dr Mendolia recently completed her PhD at UNSW and has a Master of Science (Msc.) in Economics, University College of London (UCL), and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Economics, University of Turin. Her research interests include Labour Economics, Health Economics, Applied Microeconometrics.

Dr Freyens' research interests include labour economics and labour law (arbitration, employment protection, class actions) and radio communications policy (spectrum management regimes, cognitive and spread-spectrum devices, digital radio). He also conducts research in social policy (economics of contracting out public services), HR management (training, knowledge transfer and workforce planning), and international poverty measurement.

A/Prof. Lindo's research focuses primarily on children, young adults, and the determinants of economic success while Dr Patulny's present research interests include the trends, meanings, and emotional qualities concerned with social connection, social capital and social cohesion, and the links between these qualities and changes in social policy, demography, life-course transitions and population ageing, and mental health. He is an Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW.
 

CHSCR Members produce A* Research 

Congratulations to Dr Peter Siminski and Prof Simon Vile for the ERA A* publications:

Siminski P (forthcoming) ‘Employment Effects of Army Service and Veterans’ Compensation: Evidence from the Australian Vietnam-Era Conscription Lotteries’ Review of Economics and Statistics

Siminski P, Ville S (2011) ‘Long-Run Mortality Effects of Vietnam-Era Army Service: Evidence from Australia’s Conscription Lotteries’ American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 101(3): 345-349.

Members win Research Grants

Congratulations to Dr Peter Siminski  for being awarded the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) (2012-2017), ‘Army Service, Employment Incentives and Veterans' Life Outcomes: A Natural Experiment’ External Grants in 2011: $375,000.

 Other External grants / contracts current in 2011

 ARC Discovery grant (2010-12), ‘Reassessing the role of industry associations through an examination of Australian and New Zealand wool marketing, 1890-1960’. Simon Ville and Prof D. Merrett, University of Melbourne. $90,000

 ARC Linkage grant (2010-11), ‘The long term causal effects of Vietnam War era conscription on economic and social outcomes for Australian conscripts’. Peter Siminski & Simon Ville . Siminski, University of Wollongong. Partner: Federal Department of Veterans’ Affairs. $117,453 + $26,962 in kind

‘Financial Stress / Hardship amongst DVA Pensioners’ for Department of Veterans’ Affairs, $62,755 (Peter Siminski) 2010-2011

Papers win awards for the Centre for Human & Social Capital Research

Dr Peter Siminski has been awarded the prize for the best paper in the Economic Record for 2009 for his paper "A welfare analysis of the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card". He received the award at the Australian Conference of Economists (ACE10) in Sydney, late September 2010. The Economic Record is regarded as Australia’s premier economics journal.

James Bishop (Honours, 2009), supervised by Joan Rodgers and Dr Siminski, was awarded the Junior Researcher Prize for the best conference paper (authors aged under 35 years) at the 32nd Australian Conference of Health Economists. His paper "The effect of maternal employment on youth overweight and obesity" was drawn from his honours thesis.