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Working Papers

2009

1. Are State Elections Affected by the National Economy? Evidence from Australia
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
   See also Journal Article in The Economic Record (2009)
2. Beautiful Politicians
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
   See also Journal Article in Kyklos (2009)
3. DO RISING TOP INCOMES LIFT ALL BOATS?
   CAMA Working Papers, Australian National University, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis
   Also in Working Paper Series, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (2009)
4. Estimating Teacher Effectiveness From Two-Year Changes in Students’ Test Scores
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
5. How Much Did the 2009 Fiscal Stimulus Boost Spending? Evidence from a Household Survey
   CAMA Working Papers, Australian National University, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis
6. Long-Run Trends in School Productivity: Evidence From Australia
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
7. Long-Term Unemployment in the ACT
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
8. Working Credits: A Low-Cost Alternative to Earned Income Tax Credits?
   Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne

2008

9. Bringing Home the Bacon: An empirical analysis of the extent and effects of pork-barreling in Australian politics
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
   See also Journal Article in Public Choice (2008)
10. Estimating Cognitive Gaps Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
    See also Journal Article in Education Economics (2009)
11. Is Voting Skin-Deep? Estimating the Effect of Candidate Ballot Photographs on Election Outcomes
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Psychology (2009)
12. More Inequality, Less Social Mobility
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
    See also Journal Article in Applied Economics Letters (2009)
13. Top Incomes and National Savings
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
    See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (2009)

2007

14. Estimating the Impact of Gubernatorial Partisanship on Policy Settings and Economic Outcomes: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
    See also Journal Article in European Journal of Political Economy (2008)
15. How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2007)
16. How Much Do Public Schools Really Cost? Estimating the Relationship Between House Prices and School Quality
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
    See also Journal Article in The Economic Record (2008)
17. Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
    Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (2007) View citations
18. Minding the Shop: The Case of Obstetrics Conferences
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
19. Returns to Education in Australia
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
20. Top Incomes in Indonesia, 1920-2004
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
21. Weak Tests and Strong Conclusions: A Re-Analysis of Gun Deaths and the Australian Firearms Buyback
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations

2006

22. Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients have any Power?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
23. Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2009)
24. Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (2005)
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2006) View citations
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2006) View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Economic Record (2006)
25. Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2006)
26. Do Very High Tax Rates Induce Bunching? Implications for the Design of Income-Contingent Loan Schemes
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
    See also Journal Article in The Economic Record (2009)
27. Does Child Gender Affect Marital Status?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
28. Does Equality Lead to Fraternity?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2006)
29. Does the Lunar Cycle Affect Birth and Deaths?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
30. Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) View citations
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (2005)
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2006) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Australian Economic Review (2006)
31. How Do Unionists Vote? Estimating the Causal Impact of Union Membership on Voting Behaviour from 1966 to 2004
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
32. How and Why has Teacher Quality Changed in Australia?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in Australian Economic Review (2008)
33. Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
    Also in Working Paper Series, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (2006)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Health Economics (2007)
34. The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Economic Record (2007)
35. The Millennium Bub
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in Applied Economics Letters (2009)
36. Trust, Inequality, and Ethnic Heterogeneity
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Economic Record (2006)

2005

37. Can Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
38. Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Economic Record (2007)
39. Economic Voting and Electoral Behaviour: How do Individual, Local and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
    See also Journal Article in Economics and Politics (2005)
40. Estimating Returns to Education: Three Natural Experiment Techniques Compared
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
41. Materialism on the March: From Conspicuous Leisure to Conspicuous Consumption?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
    See also Journal Article in The Journal of Socio-Economics (2008)
42. Optimal Design of Earned Income Tax Credits: Evidence from a British Natural Experiment
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
43. The Distribution of Top Incomes in New Zealand
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
44. What’s the Difference Between a Donkey and an Elephant? Using Panel Data from US States to Estimate the Impact of Partisanship on Policy Settings and Economic Outcomes
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
45. Who Benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit? Incidence Among Recipients, Coworkers and Firms
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations

2004

46. Deriving Long-Run Inequality Series from Tax Data
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Economic Record (2005)
47. Does the World Economy Swing National Elections?
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University View citations
    See also Journal Article in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2009)

2003

48. What Do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (2003) View citations

Journal Articles

2009

1. Are Ballot Order Effects Heterogeneous?
   Social Science Quarterly, 2009, 90, (1), 71-87 View citations
2. Are State Elections Affected by the National Economy? Evidence from Australia
   The Economic Record, 2009, 85, (269), 210-222
   See also Working Paper (2009)
3. Beautiful Politicians
   Kyklos, 2009, 62, (4), 579-593
   See also Working Paper (2009)
4. Born on the first of July: An (un)natural experiment in birth timing
   Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (1-2), 246-263 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2006)
5. Do Very High Tax Rates Induce Bunching? Implications for the Design of Income Contingent Loan Schemes
   The Economic Record, 2009, 85, (270), 276-289
   Also in The Economic Record, 2009, 85, (3), 276-289 (2009)
   See also Working Paper (2006)
6. Does child gender affect marital status? Evidence from Australia
   Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22, (2), 351-366
7. Does the World Economy Swing National Elections?
   Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71, (2), 163-181
   See also Working Paper (2004)
8. Estimating cognitive gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
   Education Economics, 2009, 17, (2), 239-261
   See also Working Paper (2008)
9. Inequality in Indonesia: What can we learn from top incomes?
   Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (1-2), 209-212 View citations
10. Is voting skin-deep? Estimating the effect of candidate ballot photographs on election outcomes
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30, (1), 61-70
    See also Working Paper (2008)
11. More inequality, less social mobility
    Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16, (15), 1489-1492
    See also Working Paper (2008)
12. TOP INCOMES AND NATIONAL SAVINGS
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55, (1), 57-74 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2008)
13. The millennium bub
    Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16, (14), 1467-1470
    See also Working Paper (2006)

2008

14. Bringing home the bacon: an empirical analysis of the extent and effects of pork-barreling in Australian politics
    Public Choice, 2008, 137, (1), 279-299 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2008)
15. Estimating returns to education using different natural experiment techniques
    Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27, (2), 149-160 View citations
16. Estimating the impact of gubernatorial partisanship on policy settings and economic outcomes: A regression discontinuity approach
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24, (1), 256-268
    See also Working Paper (2007)
17. How Much do Public Schools Really Cost? Estimating the Relationship between House Prices and School Quality
    The Economic Record, 2008, 84, (265), 193-206 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2007)
18. How and Why Has Teacher Quality Changed in Australia?
    Australian Economic Review, 2008, 41, (2), 141-159
    See also Working Paper (2006)
19. Materialism on the March: From conspicuous leisure to conspicuous consumption?
    The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2008, 37, (5), 1937-1945
    See also Working Paper (2005)
20. TOP INCOMES IN NEW ZEALAND 1921-2005: UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF MARGINAL TAX RATES, MIGRATION THREAT, AND THE MACROECONOMY
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54, (2), 149-165 View citations

2007

21. Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?*
    The Economic Record, 2007, 83, (263), 432-445 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2005)
22. How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality?
    Economic Journal, 2007, 117, (524), F619-F633 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2007)
23. Inequality and mortality: Long-run evidence from a panel of countries
    Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26, (1), 1-24 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2006)
24. Intergenerational Mobility in Australia
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2007, 7, (2)
25. The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia
    The Economic Record, 2007, 83, (262), 247-261 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2006)

2006

26. Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets
    The Economic Record, 2006, 82, (258), 325-340 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2006)
27. Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths?
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2006, topics.6, (1) View citations
    See also Working Paper (2006)
28. Does equality lead to fraternity?
    Economics Letters, 2006, 93, (1), 121-125 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2006)
29. Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox
    Australian Economic Review, 2006, 39, (2), 176-184 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2006)
30. Toying with Death and Taxes: Some Lessons from Down Under
    The Economists' Voice, 2006, 3, (6)
31. Trust, Inequality and Ethnic Heterogeneity
    The Economic Record, 2006, 82, (258), 268-280 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2006)

2005

32. Deriving Long-Run Inequality Series from Tax Data
    The Economic Record, 2005, 81, (s1), S58-S70 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2004)
33. ECONOMIC VOTING AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR: HOW DO INDIVIDUAL, LOCAL, AND NATIONAL FACTORS AFFECT THE PARTISAN CHOICE?
    Economics and Politics, 2005, 17, 265-296 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2005)

2004

34. Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment-Erratum
    Australian Economic Review, 2004, 37, (1), 102-105 View citations
35. Minimum Wages and Employment: Reply
    Australian Economic Review, 2004, 37, (2), 173-179 View citations
36. Pulled Away or Pushed Out? Explaining the Decline of Teacher Aptitude in the United States
    American Economic Review, 2004, 94, (2), 236-240 View citations

2003

37. Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
    Australian Economic Review, 2003, 36, (4), 361-373 View citations