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2015n11: Reducing the Generosity and Increasing the Conditionality of Disability Benefits: Turning the Supertanker or Squeezing the Balloon?

Barbara Broadway and Duncan McVicar

2015n10: What Factors Affect Doctors’ Hours Decisions: Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches

Guyonne Kalb, Daniel Kuehnle, Anthony Scott, Terence Cheng and Sung-Hee Jeon

2015n09: The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia

Barbara Broadway and Guyonne Kalb

2015n08: Sexual Identity, Earnings, and Labour Market Dynamics: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Australia

Joseph J. Sabia and Mark Wooden

2015n07: Measuring the Connectedness of the Global Economy

Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo and Viet Hoang Nguyen

2015n06: If You Get What You Want, Do You Get What You Need? Course Choice and Achievement Effects of a Vocational Education and Training Voucher Scheme

Duncan McVicar and Cain Polidano

2015n05: Financial Stress Thresholds and Household Equivalence Scales

Guay Lim and Sarantis Tsiaplias

2015n04: How Do Drug Prices Respond to a Change from External to Internal Reference Pricing? Evidence from a Danish Regulatory Reform

Ulrich Kaiser and Susan Mendez

2015n03: Binge Drinking, Antisocial and Unlawful Behaviours, and Beverage Types

Ou Yang, Xueyan Zhao and Preety Pratima Srivastava

2015n02: The Employment Effects of Terminating Disability Benefits

Timothy Moore

2015n01: The Stress Cost of Children

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Daniel Hamermesh and Mark Wooden

2014n28: The Importance of Economic Expectations for Retirement Entry

Barbara Broadway and John P. Haisken-DeNew

2014n27: A Bayesian Approach to Modelling Bivariate Time-Varying Cointegration and Cointegrating Rank

Chew Chua and Sarantis Tsiaplias

2014n26: Estimating Fiscal Multipliers: News from a Nonlinear World

Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo, Valentina Colombo and Gabriela Nodari

2014n25: Locus of Control and the Labor Market

Deborah Cobb-Clark

2014n24: Evidence on Credit Constraints, University Attendance and Income Contingent Loans

Buly Cardak and Christopher Ryan

2014n23: A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Mark Wooden

2014n22: NAPLAN Scores as Predictors of Access to Higher Education in Victoria

Brendan Houng and Moshe Justman

2014n21: When General Skills Are Not Enough: The Influence of Recent Shifts in Australian Skilled Migration Policy on Migrant Employment Outcomes

Justin van de Ven, Sarah Voitchovsky and Hielke Buddelmeyer

2014n20: A Journey Home: What Drives How Long People Are Homeless?

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Nicolas Hérault, Rosanna Scutella and Yi-Ping Tseng

2014n19: Enforcing Compulsory Schooling by Linking Welfare Payments to School Attendance: Lessons from Australia’s Northern Territory*

Moshe Justman and Kyle Peyton

2014n18: Monetary Policy Indeterminacy and Identification Failures in the U.S.: Results from a Robust Test

Efrem Castelnuovo and Luca Fanelli

2014n17: Quantifying Informational Linkages in a Global Model of Currency Spot Markets

Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo, Viet Hoang Nguyen and Yongcheol Shin

2014n16: Estimating the Expected Duration of the Zero Lower Bound in DSGE Models with Forward Guidance

Mariano Kulish, James Morley and Tim Robinson

2014n15: Harmonising and Matching IPR Holders at IP Australia

T’Mir D. Julius and Gaétan de Rassenfosse

2014n14: Attrition Bias in Panel Data: A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? A Case Study Based on the MABEL Survey

Terence Cheng and Pravin Trivedi

2014n13: The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Robert Dixon, Guay Lim and Jan van Ours

2014n12: Uncertainty Shocks and Unemployment Dynamics in U.S. Recessions

Giovanni Caggiano, Efrem Castelnuovo and Nicolas Groshenny

2014n11: Re-employment Expectations and the Eye of Providence

Sonja C. Kassenboehmer and Sonja G. Schatz

2014n10: Late Start with Extra Schooling: The Effect of School Entry-Age Increase and the Introduction of Preparatory Year*

Nikhil Jha

2014n09: What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us about Discrimination against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom*

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Mark Wooden

2014n08: An Introduction to the Patstat Database with Example Queries

Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Hélène Dernis and Geert Boedt

2014n07: Income Inequality, Trade and Financial Openness

Guay Lim and Paul McNelis

2014n06: Outcomes for Teenage Mothers in the First Years after Birth*

Guyonne Kalb, Trinh Le and Felix Leung

2014n05: Measuring Adequacy of Retirement Savings

John Burnett, Kevin Davis, Carsten Murawski, Roger Wilkins and Nicholas Wilkinson

2014n04: Multidimensionality of Longitudinal Data: Unlocking the Age-Happiness Puzzle

Ning Li

2014n03: Identifying Tax Implicit Equivalence Scales

Justin van de Ven, Nicolas Hérault and Francisco Azpitarte

2014n02: Recent Trends in Income Redistribution in Australia: Can Changes in the Tax-Transfer System Account for the Decline in Redistribution?*

Nicolas Hérault and Francisco Azpitarte

2013n44: The Measurement of Cognitive Ability in Wave 12 of the HILDA Survey

Mark Wooden

2013n43: Less Equal and Less Mobile: Evidence of a Decline in Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States

Moshe Justman and Anna Krush

2013n42: Locus of Control and Savings

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. Kassenboehmer and Mathias Sinning

2013n41: Retirement Decisions of Couples: The Impact of Spousal Characteristics and Preferences on the Timing of Retirement

Diana Warren

2013n40: Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists

Terence Cheng, Guyonne Kalb and Anthony Scott

2013n39: Long-Run Effects of Catholic Schooling on Wages

Nikhil Jha and Cain Polidano

2013n38: "High"-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. Kassenboehmer, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar and Rong Zhang

2013n37: Science, Technology, Innovation and IP in India: New Directions and Prospects

Christine Greenhalgh

2013n36: Is There an Educational Penalty for Being Suspended from School?

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. Kassenboehmer, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar and Rong Zhang

2013n35: Does Participation in Extracurricular Activities Reduce Engagement in Risky Behaviours?

Trinh Le

2013n34: Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Causal Impact of Pre-school Participation and Teacher Qualifications on Year 3 National NAPLAN Cognitive Tests

Diana Warren and John P. Haisken-DeNew

2013n33: Understanding Changes in Progressivity and Redistributive Effects: The Role of Tax-Transfer Policies and Labour Supply Decisions

Nicolas Hérault and Francisco Azpitarte