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Development Research Unit – Current Projects

Prof Pushkar Maitra (Co-Director)

  • Microfinance Beyond Group Lending: Theory, Experiments and Econometrics
  • Experimental Analysis of Group Size, Endowment Uncertainty and Risk Sharing
  • Moral Hazard and Peer Monitoring in a Laboratory Microfinance Experiment
  • Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality
  • Arranged Marriage and Co-residence
  • Health Shocks and Microfinance
  • HIV/AIDS and the Next Generation

Prof Brett Inder (Co-Director)

 

Prof Ranjan Ray

  • Corruption and its effects in the context of developing countries
  • Analysis of the NSS data sets from India (60 th round),
  • Prices, Children and Inequality: Methodology and empirical applications on Australian Household Expenditure Data Sets.
  • Living Standards, HIV/AIDS and its impact on the Next Generation.
  • Food Security in Developing Countries with special reference to India , Indonesia and Vietnam .

Assoc Prof Duangkamon Chotikapanich

  • Global Income Distribution and Inequality
  • Calculating Poverty measures from the Beta Distribution
  • The Effect of Grouping and Distribution Misspecification on Estimation of Income Distribution
  • Bayesian Inference for Welfare Comparisons of Income Inequality and Poverty.

Dr Rebecca Valenzuela

  • The Impact of Skills Mismatching among Migrants on Remittance Behaviour
  • Modelling the Impact of Remittances on Demand: A Study of Philippine Households
  • Income Distribution in the La Trobe Valley : The Long Term Impact of Microenomic Reform
  • Stochastic Dominance of Australian Income Distributions
  • Measuring Food Insecurity in Australian Households
  • Impact of Price Indices On Inequality: Analysis of Australian unit record data

Prof Robert Brooks

  • Evaluation of microfinance programs (matched savings, financial literacy) in Australia
  • Asset pricing and market efficiency in Asian stock markets
  • Impacts of sovereign rating changes on financial markets

Dr James Ang

  • The Indian Growth Miracle and Second-Generation Endogenous Growth Models
  • Determinants of Environmental Performance in China
  • Asian Growth Miracle Revisited
  • Semi-endogenous or Schumpeterian Growth? Evidence from the British Historical Data

Dr Brett Parris

  • Top down vs. bottom up modelling approaches for development & climate policy.
  • Innovation and energy futures in the context of climate policy
  • Climate change mitigation and adaptation policy modelling

Dr Katy Cornwell

  • Remittances of Overseas Filipinos
  • How do the Poor Manage their Money? Analysis of Data from the 2003/2004 South African Financial Diaries Project
  • Estimating Mobility from a Time Series of Cross Sections, with Application to Post-Apartheid South Africa
  • Mental Illness and Labour Market Costs
  • The Traditional Economy, Internal Migration and Labour Market Outcomes
  • Household Composition and Schooling of Rural Black South African Children – Sibling Synergy and Migrant Effects