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Working Papers

2024

1. Hiding the elephant: the tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (1)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2022)
   See also Journal Article Hiding the elephant: The tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists, Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell (2024) View citations (2) (2024)
2. The Failed History of Quarantines, and Its Implications for Public Health
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

2018

3. Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia, The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia (2018) View citations (1) (2018)
4. Does Female Breadwinning Make Partnerships Less Healthy or Less Stable?
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   Also in GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2018)
   See also Journal Article Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?, Journal of Population Economics, Springer (2021) View citations (10) (2021)
5. Expectation formation in an evolving game of uncertainty: new experimental evidence
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Expectation formation in an evolving game of uncertainty: New experimental evidence, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2018) View citations (1) (2018)
6. What Women Want (their men to do): Housework and satisfaction in Australian households
   GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) View citations (2)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2017)
   See also Journal Article What women want (their men to do): Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households, Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2019) View citations (2) (2019)

2017

7. Do Significant Labor Market Events Change Who Does the Chores? Paid Work, Housework and Power in Mixed-Gender Australian Households
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Do significant labor market events change who does the chores? Paid work, housework, and power in mixed-gender Australian households, Journal of Population Economics, Springer (2018) View citations (19) (2018)
8. Do Significant Labour Market Events Change Who Does the Laundry? Work, chore allocation, and power in Australian households
   Discussion Papers, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

2013

9. Expectation Formation in an Evolving Game of Uncertainty: Theory and New Experimental Evidence
   CREMA Working Paper Series, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)

2012

10. Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
11. The triumph of hope over regret: A note on the utility value of good health expectations
    Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article The triumph of hope over disappointment: A note on the utility value of good health expectations, Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier (2012) View citations (13) (2012)

2011

12. The Impact of International and NESB Students on Measured Learning and Standards in Australian Higher Education
    Discussion Papers, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

2010

13. The Multitasking of Household Production
    Discussion Papers, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales View citations (3)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2010) View citations (3)
14. Tobit or OLS? An Empirical Evaluation Under Different Diary Window Lengths
    Discussion Papers, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Tobit or OLS? An empirical evaluation under different diary window lengths, Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2013) View citations (76) (2013)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Can leagues mitigate the demoralization effect of rank feedback? A randomized controlled trial
   Labour Economics, 2024, 90, (C)
2. Hiding the elephant: The tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists
   Australian Economic Papers, 2024, 63, (1), 106-144 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Hiding the elephant: the tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2024) View citations (1) (2024)
3. Unintended consequences of school accountability reforms: Public versus private schools
   Economics of Education Review, 2024, 99, (C)

2023

4. Reply to Rati Mekvabishvili's 'On the Importance of Altruism, Prosocial Behavior and Christian Love in Behavioral Economics research'
   Economic Thought, 2023, 11, (1), 58 - 65

2021

5. Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?
   Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34, (1), 63-96 View citations (10)
   See also Working Paper Does Female Breadwinning Make Partnerships Less Healthy or Less Stable?, IZA Discussion Papers (2018) (2018)
6. Driven by the Invisible: The economics of the unseen
   Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2021, 5, (S2), 79-85
7. Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
   The Economic Record, 2021, 97, (317), 310-316

2020

8. Early estimates of the impact of COVID-19 disruptions on jobs, wages, and lifetime earnings of schoolchildren in Australia
   Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), 2020, 23, (2), 129-151 View citations (2)
9. The behavioural economics of government responses to COVID-19
   Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2020, 4, (S3), 11-43 View citations (2)

2019

10. Are we addicted to love? A parsimonious economic model of love
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 165, (C), 70-81 View citations (1)
11. Hybrid Public Policy Innovations: Contemporary Policy Beyond Ideology
    The Economic Record, 2019, 95, (308), 163-167
12. What women want (their men to do): Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households
    Feminist Economics, 2019, 25, (3), 23-47 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper What Women Want (their men to do): Housework and satisfaction in Australian households, GLO Discussion Paper Series (2018) View citations (2) (2018)

2018

13. A Tale of Cyclones, Exports and Surplus Forgone in Australia's Protected Banana Industry
    The Economic Record, 2018, 94, (306), 276-300
14. Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia
    The Economic Record, 2018, 94, (S1), 73-101 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia, IZA Discussion Papers (2018) View citations (2) (2018)
15. Do significant labor market events change who does the chores? Paid work, housework, and power in mixed-gender Australian households
    Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, (2), 483-519 View citations (19)
    See also Working Paper Do Significant Labor Market Events Change Who Does the Chores? Paid Work, Housework and Power in Mixed-Gender Australian Households, IZA Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (4) (2017)
16. Education Policy Reforms to Boost Productivity in Australia
    Australian Economic Review, 2018, 51, (2), 253-261
17. Ethics in Economics
    Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, 2018, 24, (1), 61-75
18. Expectation formation in an evolving game of uncertainty: New experimental evidence
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, (C), 379-405 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Expectation formation in an evolving game of uncertainty: new experimental evidence, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2018) View citations (1) (2018)
19. Towards a living theoretical spine for (behavioural) economics
    Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2018, 2, (1), 75-81

2017

20. Why Gender Matters in Economics, by Mukesh Eswaran ( Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2014 ), 392 pp
    The Economic Record, 2017, 93, (302), 509-511

2015

21. Book review: Geoffrey M Hodgson, From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities: An Evolutionary Economics without Homo Economicus
    The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2015, 26, (1), 175-181
22. Measuring the relative productivity of multitasking to sole-tasking in household production: experimental evidence
    Applied Economics, 2015, 47, (18), 1847-1862 View citations (10)
23. Rising Inequality: A Benign Outgrowth of Markets or a Symptom of Cancerous Political Favours?
    Australian Economic Review, 2015, 48, (1), 67-75 View citations (4)

2014

24. Australia's National School Data and the ‘Big Data’ Revolution in Education Economics
    Australian Economic Review, 2014, 47, (2), 258-268 View citations (6)
25. The financial crisis and its effects: Perspectives from economics and psychology
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2014, 50, (C), 10-12 View citations (2)
26. The formation of expectations: Competing theories and new evidence
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2014, 53, (C), 66-81 View citations (4)

2013

27. 7 Myths about Women and Work, by Catherine Fox ( NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, NSW, 2012 ), pp. 274
    The Economic Record, 2013, 89, (285), 274-275
28. Interpreting and Visualizing Regression Models Using Stata, by Michael N. Mitchell ( Stata Press, College Station, Texas, 2012 ), pp. xxix + 558
    The Economic Record, 2013, 89, (284), 132-134
29. Tobit or OLS? An empirical evaluation under different diary window lengths
    Applied Economics, 2013, 45, (20), 2994-3010 View citations (76)
    See also Working Paper Tobit or OLS? An Empirical Evaluation Under Different Diary Window Lengths, Discussion Papers (2010) View citations (7) (2010)

2012

30. Estimating spillovers using panel data, with an application to the classroom
    Quantitative Economics, 2012, 3, (3), 421-470 View citations (117)
31. The impact of international students on measured learning and standards in Australian higher education
    Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, (5), 587-600 View citations (8)
32. The triumph of hope over disappointment: A note on the utility value of good health expectations
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33, (1), 206-214 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper The triumph of hope over regret: A note on the utility value of good health expectations, Discussion Papers Series (2012) View citations (13) (2012)

2010

33. Students' beliefs about peer effects
    Economics Letters, 2010, 108, (3), 260-263 View citations (12)

2009

34. A Diagrammatic Exposition of Regression and Instrumental Variables for the Beginning Student
    The Journal of Economic Education, 2009, 40, (3), 278-296

2008

35. The quality of time spent with children in Australian households
    Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6, (3), 243-266 View citations (26)

2006

36. It's not your peers, and it's not your friends: Some progress toward understanding the educational peer effect mechanism
    Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90, (8-9), 1455-1475 View citations (136)
37. Operationalising a Threshold Concept in Economics: A Pilot Study Using Multiple Choice Questions on Opportunity Cost
    International Review of Economic Education, 2006, 5, (2), 29-57

Edited books

2016

1. The Economics of Multitasking
   Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (10)

Chapters

2023

1. Realeconomik: Using the messy human experience to drive clean theoretical advance in economics
   Chapter 5 in Handbook of Research Methods in Behavioural Economics, 2023, pp 80-103

2017

2. Is it rational to be in love?
   Chapter 12 in Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making, 2017, pp 205-232 View citations (1)