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Development Microeconomics Research Program
The Development Microeconomics Research program involves research in a range of issues that are of particular relevance in developing countries, including household behaviour, education, internal migration, poverty, health, microfinance, remittances, climate change and the poor, etc.
Most research has a strong empirical focus, within a framework of well defined economic foundations and literature. Some projects also use the tools of experimental economics to address the research question.
Current Projects
James Ang
- The Indian Growth Miracle and Second-Generation Endogenous Growth Models
- Semi-endogenous or Schumpeterian Growth? Evidence from the British Historical Data
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
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
- 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
Brett Inder
- Internal Migration and the labour market in Fiji
- Sibling effects and schooling in South Africa
- Migration and labour markets in South Africa
Pushkar Maitra
- 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, Co-residence and Female schooling: A model with evidence from India
- Health Shocks and Microfinance
- HIV/AIDS and the Next Generation
- Social exclusion and group lending: An experimental analysis
- Group lending versus Individual lending: A randomized field experiment
- Gender wage discrimination in rural and urban labour markets of bangladesh
- India rising, but what about the health of children? Evidence from 3 rounds of NFHS data
- Education accross generations in India
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
Ranjan Ray
- Corruption and its effects in the context of developing countries
- Modelling food expenditure, analysing nutrient security, measuring hunger and calculating purchasing power parity: Methodological advances with policy applications
- Living Standards, HIV/AIDS and its impact on the Next Generation.
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
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