Journal Publications
(* Invited) (+not refereed)
‘The US College Loans System: Reform Lessons from Australia and England’ (2018) (with Nicholas Barr, Lorraine Dearden and Susan Dynarski), Economics of Education Review, doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.07.007.
‘Repayment Burdens from Mortgage-style Student Loans and Towards an Income Contingent Loan for China’, (2018), (with Cai Yu and Qing Wan), Economics of Education Review, doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.06.002
‘Modelling Higher Education Financing Reform for Ireland’ (2018), (with Aedin Doris), Economics of Education Review, doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.06.002
‘Revisiting Revenue Contingent Loans for Drought Relief: Government as Risk Manager’ (2017), (with Linda Botterill and Simon Kelly), Australian Journal of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Vol. 61(3): 367-384.
‘Conceptual and Empirical Issues for Alternative Student Loan Designs: The Significance of Loan Repayment Burdens for the United States’ (2017), (with Lorraine Dearden), The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 671(1): 249-268
‘Revisiting the Relationship Between Marriage and Wellbeing: Does Marriage Quality Matter?’ (with Cahit Guven) (2016), Journal of Happiness Studies (Vol.17): 533-551.
‘Income Contingent Collection of a ‘Brain Drain Tax’: Theory, Policy and Empirical Potential’ (with Philip Clarke, Timothy Higgins and Miranda Stewart (2015), Population Review, Vol. 54 (2): 13-27.
‘Introduction to Special Collection Six on the Labour market, Migration and Ageing’ (2015) (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew and John Piggott), Population Review, Vol. 54 (2): 42-46.
‘Measuring the Value of Externalities from Higher Education’ (2015) (with Kiatananthan Lounkaew), Higher Education, Vol. 70: 767-785.
‘An Analysis of Stafford Loans Repayment Burdens’ (2015), (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 45 (April): 89-102.
‘Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees’ (2014) (with Mathias Sinning), Education Economics, 22:569-588.
‘Stephen Jonathan Dowrick, 1953-2013: A Tribute’ (with Bob Gregory) (2014), Economic Record, Vol. 90 (289) (June): 266-269.
‘Repayment burdens of Student Loans for Vietnamese Higher Education’ (with Amy Liu) (2013), Economics of Education Review (Special Issue on Education Policy), Vol. 37 (December): 298-308.
‘Introduction to the special issue on Economic Research for Education Policy’ (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew) (2013), Economics of Education Review (Special Issue on Education Policy), Vol. 37 (December):200-204.
‘Reinventing Student Loans: Paying What You Can’ (2013), Solutions, Vol. 4 (5) (September/October) 48-56.
‘What’s love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability’ (with Rebecca Kippen, Peng Yu and Kiatanantha Lounkaew) (2013), Journal of Population Research, Vol. 30:213–247.
‘How many Jobs is 23,510, Really?’ (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew) (2013), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 16 (2): 259-278.
‘The Costs of Unpaid Higher Education Contribution Scheme Debts of Graduates Working Abroad’ (with Tim Higgins), (2013), Australian Economic Review, Vol.46 (3) (September): 286-299.
‘Peter Kenyon 1952-2012: a memoir and tribute’ (with Phil Lewis) (2012), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 15 (3):161-165.
‘A Better Way to Borrow’+ (with Yael Shavit) (2010), Inside Higher Education (June).
‘Thailand’s Student Loan Fund: An Analysis of Interest Rate Subsidies and Repayment Hardships’ (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew, Piruna Polsiri, Rangsit Sarachitti, and Thitima Sitthipongpanich) (2010), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 29 (5):685-694.
‘Income Contingent Student Loans for Thailand: Alternatives Compared’ (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew), (2010), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 29 (5) (August):695-709.
‘Reforming Youth Allowance: The ‘Independent-at-Home’ Category’ (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew), (2009), Economic Papers, Vol. 28 (4) (December): 304-309.
‘An Income Contingent Loan for Extending Paid Parental Leave’ (with Tim Higgins) (2009), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 12 (2) (September): 197-216.
‘A Revenue Contingent Loan Instrument for Agricultural Credit with Particular Reference to Drought Relief’ (with Linda Botterill) (2009), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 12 (2) (September):181-196.
‘Income Contingent Loans for Mature Aged Training’ (with Tim Higgins and Dehne Taylor) (2009) Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 12 (2) (September):167-179.
‘Exploring Creative Applications of Income Contingent Loans’ (with Boyd Hunter) (2009), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 12 (2) (September):133-144.
‘The Effects of Different Loan Schemes for Higher Education Tuition: An Analysis of Rates of Return and Government Revenue in Thailand’ (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew) (2009), Higher Education in Europe, Vol. 34 (2) (July): 239-254.
‘Do Very High Tax Rates Induce Bunching? Implications for the Design of Income Contingent Loan Schemes’ (with Andrew Leigh) (2009), Economic Record, Vol. 85 (270) (September): 276-289.
‘2020 Summit: ‘An Australian on Mars by 2020?’, Agenda (June, 2008), Vol.15 (2):21-23.
‘An Analysis of FEE-HELP in the Vocational Education and Training Sector’ (with Mark Rodrigues and Chris Ryan), Australian Economic Review (2008), Vol. 41 (1) (March):1-14.
‘The Australian University Student Financing System: The Rationale for, and Experience with
Income Contingent Loans’ (with Michelle Tan) (2008), Journal of Educational Planning and Administration.+‘The US College Loan System Looks Odd from Down Under’, (Winter 2008), Harvard College Economics Review, Vol. II (1): 19-24.
‘Relationship Breakdown and the Economic Welfare of Australian Mothers and their Children’, (2007) (with Matthew Gray), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 10 (4) (December): 251-275.
‘Births, Debts and Mirages: The Effect of HECS on Fertility’ (2007), (with Peng Yu and Rebecca Kippen), Journal of Population Research, Vol. 24 (1) , (July): 73-90.
‘Higher Education Financing in Australia’, (June, 2007), Journal for Institutional Comparisons, Vol. 5, No. 2: 55-61.
‘Income Contingent Loans as Public Policy’ (2006), Academy of the Social Sciences Occasional Paper Series, December, Canberra.
‘Profit Contingent Loans for Social Community Investment Projects in Disadvantaged Regions’, (2006) (with Ric Simes), Public Policy, Vol. 1 (2) (December): 93-102
‘Introduction to the Bobfest’ (2006), (with Paul W. Miller), Economic Record, Vol. 82 (257): 113-117.
‘Response to Breusch and Gray’, (2006) (with Matthew Gray), Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Vol. 31, No. 1-2: 127-138.
‘Income Contingent Loans for Drought Relief’ (2006) (with Linda Botterill and Michael Egan), Farm Policy Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2: 59-67.
‘Some Labour Market Measurement Issues for Indigenous Australians’ (2006) (with Matthew Gray), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1: 5-16.
‘Learning to live with loans? International Policy Transfer and the Funding of Higher Education’ (2006) (with David Greenaway), The World Economy, Vol. 29, No. 7.
‘Using Financial Incentives and Income Contingent Penalties to Detect and Punish Collusion and Insider Trading’ (2005) (with Richard Denniss), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 38 (1): 122-140.
‘The Access Implications of Income-contingent Charges for Higher Education: Lessons from Australia’ (2005) (with Chris Ryan), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 24 (5): 491-512.
*+ ‘Income Related Loans for Public Policy’ (2004) Public Administration Today, Issue 1: September-November: 67-91.
*+‘Opinion: A Critical Appraisal of the New Charges for Higher Education Students’ (2004), Dialogue, Vol. 23(1): 61-72.
- ‘The Value of Don Bradman: Additional Revenue in Australian Ashes Tests’ (2004) (with Julian Blackham), Economic Papers, Vol. 23 (4): 369-385
‘Using the Tax System to Collect Fines’ (2004) (with Arie Freiberg, John Quiggin and David Tait), Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 63 (3)(September): 20-29.
‘An Income-related Loans Proposal for Drought Relief for Farm Businesses’ (2004) (with Linda Botterill), Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 63 (3) (September): 10-19.
*+ ‘Case Studies in Labour Economics: The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey Special Issue’ (2004) (with Paul Flatau and Peter Kenyon), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 7 (2) (June): 109-117.
‘HECS System Changes: Impact on Students’ (2004) (with Gillian Beer), Agenda, Vol. 11 (2): 157-174.
+‘Unemployment duration, schooling and property crime’ (2002) (with D. Weatherburn, C. A Kapuscinski, M. Chilvers and S. Roussel), Crime and Justice Bulletin 74 (December):1-16.
*+‘Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, 2001: Robert G. Gregory’, Economic Record, Vol. 78 (241): 129-135.
*+‘Welfare and the Labour Market: A New Frontier for Reform? Essays in Honour of the Late Professor Fred Gruen’ (2002) (with Bob Gregory), Australian Journal of Labour Economics 5 (4): 431-442.
*+‘Creating Jobs – the Role of Government: Introduction’ (2002) (with Peter Kenyon), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 5 (2): 101-110.
*‘Income Contingent Financing of Student Charges for Higher Education: Assessing the Australian Innovation’ (2002) (with Chris Ryan), Welsh Journal of Education, Vol. 11 (1): 45-63.
‘From Silos to Seamlessness: Towards a Cross-Sectoral Funding Model for Post compulsory Education and Training’ (2001) (with Louise Watson and Leesa Wheelahan), Australian Journal of Education 45 (3): 249-262.
‘Australian Postgraduate Financing Options’ (2001) (with Tony Salvage), Agenda, 8(4): 67-78.
‘Unemployment Traps and Age Earnings Profiles: Estimates for Australia in 2001’ (2001) (with James Jordan, Ken Oliver and John Quiggin), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 4(3), 174-191.
‘The Impact of Children on the Lifetime Earnings of Australian Women: Evidence from the 1990s’, (2001) (with Yvonne Dunlop, Matthew Gray, Amy Lui and Deborah Mitchell), Australian Economic Review 34 (4): 373-389.
‘Avoiding Recession and Long Term Unemployment’ (2001) (with Cezary Kapuscinski) in Carlson E. and Mitchell W.F. (eds.) Achieving Full Employment, supplement to Economic and Labour Relations Review, Vol. 12: 99-116.
*‘Australian Higher Education Financing: Issues for Reform’ (2001), Australian Economic Review, 34 (2): 195-204.
*+‘The myth of the short, sharp shock’ (2000), BCA Papers, 2, No.2 (September): 76-80.
+‘Reform of Ethiopian Higher Education Financing: Conceptual and Policy Issues’ (1999), Economics of Education Series 2, Economics of Education Thematic Group (Washington D. C., World Bank).
*‘A New Arrangement for Confidentialised Unit Record Files’, (1999), Australian Economic Review, (with Tom Crossley and Ging Wong), Vol. 32 (4): 404-9.
‘A Comparative Static Model of the Relationship between Immigration and the Short-term Job Prospects of Unemployed Residents’ (1999), (with Deborah Cobb-Clark), Economic Record, Vol. 75 (231); 358-368.
*‘Changes in Costs for Australian Higher Education Students from the 1996/97 Budget’, Hochschulfinanzierung (Austrian Journal of Public Policy Higher Education Funding issue), (with Tony Salvage), (4) (1998): 71-90.
*+‘Economics and policy-making: The Case of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme’, Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, 90 (1998): 120-124.
‘The Accord: Background, Changes and Aggregate Outcomes’, Journal of Industrial Relations, 1998: 61(4): 224-243.
‘Unemployment and Crime: Towards Resolving the Paradox’, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1998, (with John Braithwaite and Cezary Kapuscinski), Vol. 14 (3), 215-243.
- *+‘F.H.G. Gruen: 1921-1997’, The Economic Record, 74 (225), June, 1998: 186-194 (obituary).
‘Comment on ‘Towards Full Employment’’, Australian Economic Review, 30(4), 1997: 418-420.
*‘Conceptual Issues and the Australian Experience with Income Contingent Charges for Higher Education’, The Economic Journal, Vol. 107 (442), 1997: 738-751. [Reprinted in Nicholas Barr (Ed), Economic Theory and the Welfare State, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 132, Vol. 3, 2001, and Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin (eds.) The Economics of Higher Education, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 165, 2003.]
*‘Should Academic Economists be Involved in Policy?’, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Newsletter, 16 (1), 1997: 17-21.
*‘The Rationale for the Higher Education Contribution Scheme’, Australian Universities Review, Vol. 39 (1), July 1996: 43-50.
‘HECS 5 Years After’ (with Damian Smith), Current Affairs Bulletin, January, 1995: 16-27.
‘Costing the Job Compact’ (with John Piggott), Economic Record, 71 (215) December 1995: 313-328.
‘Income Contingent College Loans’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, October, 1994: 209-211.
‘The Job Compact: Why the Reform is Right’, The Australian Quarterly, Winter, 1994: 21-33
‘Long Term Unemployment: The Case for Policy Reform’, Economic and Labour Relations Review, 4 (2) December 1993: 218-240.
‘Immigrant Qualifications: Recognition and Relative Wage Outcomes’ (with Robyn R. Iredale), International Migration Review, 27 (2), 1993: 359-387.
‘Long Term Unemployment: The Dimensions of the Problem’, Australian Economic Review (2), 1993: 23-25.
‘Australian Student Loans’, (with Ann Harding), Australian Economic Review (1), 1993: 62-75.
‘Government Intervention in the Provision of On-the-Job Training’ (with Peter J. Stemp), Australian Economic Papers, 31 (59), 1992: 354-368.
‘Government, human capital formation and higher education’, (with David Pope), Australian Quarterly, Vol. 64 (3) 1992: 276-292.
‘Projections of Long-term Unemployment’ (with P. N. Junankar and Cezary Kapuscinski), Australian Bulletin of Labour, September 1992: 176-188.
‘Search Efficiency, Skill Transferability and Immigrant Relative Unemployment in Australia’ (with John J. Beggs), Applied Economics, Vol 22 (2), February 1990: 249-66.
‘Some Observations on Wage-Setting Practices in the Australian Labour Market System’, Australian Journal of Management, Vol. 13 (2), December 1988: 161-175.
‘An Economic Analysis of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme of the Wran Report’, Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 18 (3), September 1988: 171-185.
‘Immigrant Wage Adjustment: Cross-Section and Time-Series Estimates’ (with John J. Beggs), The Economic Record, Vol. 64 (186), September, 1988: 161-167.
‘Australian Strike Activity in an International Context: 1964-85 – Rejoinder’ (with John J. Beggs), Journal of Industrial Relations, June, 1988: 318-320.
‘Labor Turnover Bias in Estimating Wages’ (with John J. Beggs), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXX (1), February, 1988: 117-123.
‘Declining Strike Activity in Australia, 1983-85: An International Phenomenon?’ (with John J. Beggs), The Economic Record, Vol. 63 (183), December, 1987: 330-339.
‘Labour Turnover and Wage Determination’, Australian Economic Papers, 26 (48), June, 1987: 119-129.
‘Australian Strike Activity in an International Context: 1964-85’ (with John J. Beggs), Journal of Industrial Relations, June, 1987: 137-149.
‘An Empirical Analysis of Australian Strike Activity: Estimating the Industrial Relations Effect of the First Three Years of the Prices and Income Accord’ (with John J Beggs), The Economic Record, 63 (180), March, 1987: 46-60.
‘Sex Differences in Labour Turnover in the Australian Public Service’ (with Heather Prior), The Economic Record, Vol. 62 (179), December, 1986: 497-505.
‘An Analysis of the Origins of Sex Differences in Australian Wages’ (with Charles Mulvey), Journal of Industrial Relations, December, 1986: 504-520. Reprinted in Keith Whitfield (editor), Contemporary Issues in Labour Economics, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1991.
‘Wage Policy Perspectives on the Accord’, Economic Analysis and Policy, 16 (1), March, 1986: 1-17.
‘Sex and Location Differences in Wages in the Australian Public Service’, Australian Economic Papers, 24, (45), December, 1985: 296-309.
‘Continuity and Change: Labour Market Programs and Education Expenditure’, Australian Economic Review, 3, 1985: 98-112.
‘Sex Differences in Earnings: An Analysis of Malaysian Wage Data’ (with J Ross Harding), Journal of Development Studies, 21(3), April, 1985: 362-376.
‘Comment’ on J. Sloan and M. Wooden, ‘Labour Markets from the Microeconomic Perspective: Implicit Contract Theory’, Australian Economic Review, 4, 1984.
‘Unemployment: The Background to the Problem’ (with F H Gruen), Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, I, 1984.
‘Affirmative Action for Women: Economic Issues’, Australian Bulletin of Labour, Vol.11, No.1, December, 1984: 30-42 (reprinted in Keith Whitfield (ed), Contemporary Issues in Labour Economics, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1991).
‘Modelling Occupational Choice: Endogenous Preferences and Non-Pecuniary Job Attributes’, Journal of Industrial Relations, June 1981: 240-249.
‘Specific Training and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in U.S. Manufacturing’ (with Hong W. Tan), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXII, No.3, August, 1980: 371-378.
‘The Rate of Return to University Education for Males in the Australian Public Service’, Journal of Industrial Relations, June, 1977: 146-157.
“Higher Education Financing: Understanding Student Loans in Concept, Method and International Practice” (with Dung Doan), Economics of Education Review (forthcoming).
“Immigration, Ageing and the Labour Market” (with Kiatanatha Lounkaew and John Piggott), Population Review, Vol. 54, 2015.
“Education Policy” (with Kiatanatha Lounkaew), Economics of Education Review, Kiatanatha Lounkaew, Vol. 37. 2013.
The Student Loans Mess (by Joel Best and Eric Best), Economic Record, Vol. 94, No. 305, 2018.
The Knowledge Capital of Nations (by Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann), Economic Record, Vol. 91, No. 292, 2015.
The Policy Providers: A History of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social research 1962-2012 (by Ross Williams), Economic Record, Vol. 96, 2014.
The Unchained University (by Andrew Norton), The Economic Record, Vol. 80 (248), 2004.
Contemporary Issues in Australian Economics (edited by Michael R. Johnson, Peter Kriesler and Anthony D. Owen), The Economic Record, 1993.
A National Survey of Indigenous Australians: Options and Implications (edited by J. C. Altman), in ANU Reporter, August, 1992.
The End of Economic Man? Custom and Competition in Labour Markets by David Marsden, Wheatsheaf, London, Economic Analysis and Policy, July, 1990.
Migrants, Labour Markets and Training Programs, Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs, The Economic Record, December 1987.
The Economics of Non-Wage Labour Costs by Robert A Hart, in Journal of Industrial Relations, September 1985.
Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Labour Market Programs, in Youth Studies Bulletin, Vol. 4, No.2, May 1985.
‘Student Loans Financing’, for the Encyclopedia of Higher Education (edited by Pedro Texiera).
‘Reforming Indigenous Incarceration: Dealing more effectively with fines’ (with Chris Ronalds and Ginger Ridgeway).
‘Student loans: a literature review’ (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew)
‘Income Related Loans for Drought Relief’, (with Linda Botterill and Michael Eagan) (2004), Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper, no. 472, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
‘Credit constraints and training after job loss’, (with Thomas Crossley and Taejong Kim) (2003), Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper, no. 466, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
‘An Analysis of Australian Labour Market Programs’, (with Alan Stretton) (1990), Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper, no. 247, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.