Professor Michael Shields

Email: michael.shields@monash.edu

Profile:  Michael joined the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University in 2011. His research is in the areas of applied health, labour and public economics. He has worked on a range of topics including child health and development, mental illness, substance abuse, measuring health status, intra-household allocation, labour market discrimination, nursing labour markets and immigration. He has a particular interest in the socio-economic determinants and dynamics of health and happiness. He is currently working on a number of Australian Research Council funded projects.

Recent Journal Articles:

Frijters, P., Shields, M., Wheatley Price, S. and Williams, J. (2011). Quantifying the cost of passive smoking on child health: Evidence from children's cotinine samples. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, forthcoming.

Frijters, P., Johnston, D. and Shields, M. (2011). Happiness dynamics with quarterly events data. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

Frijters, P., Haisken-DeNew, J. and Shields, M. (2011). The Increasingly Mixed Proportional Hazard Model: An application to socioeconomic status, health shocks and mortality. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, forthcoming.

Frijters, P., Hatton, T., Martin, R. and Shields, M. (2010). Childhood economic conditions and length of life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr Cohort, 1937-2005. Journal of Health Economics, 29, pp. 39-47.

Johnston, D., Propper, C. and Shields, M. (2009). Comparing subjective and objective health measures: Implications from hypertension for the estimated income/health gradient. Journal of Health Economics, 28, pp. 540-552.

Frijters, P., Greenwell, H., Haisken-DeNew, J. and Shields, M. (2009). How well do individuals predict their future life satisfaction? Evidence from panel data following a nationwide exogenous shock. Canadian Journal of Economics, 42, pp. 1326-1346.

Johnston, D., Frijters, P., Shah, M. and Shields, M. (2009). To work or not to work? Child development and maternal labour supply. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1, pp. 97-110.

Johnston, D., Nicholls, M., Shah, M. and Shields, M. (2009). Nature's experiment? Handedness and early childhood development. Demography, 46, pp. 281-301.