School of Economics: Recent submissions
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It’s not you (well, it is a bit you), it’s me: Self- versus social image in warm-glow giving
Published 2024Attempts by charities to motivate giving tend to focus on potential donors’ altruistic tendencies. However, prior research suggests that approximately 50% of individuals are to some extent motivated by warm glow, the ...Open AccessArticle -
Did marginal propensities to consume change with the housing boom and bust?
Published 2024We extend a widely used semi-structural model to identify and estimate dynamic consumption elasticities with respect to transitory income shocks. Applying our model to household survey data, we find a structural break in ...Article -
Retaining Australian Nurses: An Analysis of Nurses’ Wages and Exit Rates
Published 2023-11-14This study examines the factors influencing Australian nurses’ decisions to leave the nurse profession, describes the pathways that nurses take after leaving the profession, and estimates the average wage change associated ...Open AccessThesis -
Does the Survey of Professional Forecasters help predict the shape of recessions in real time?
Published 2023An updated version of our Markov-switching model of U.S. real GDP suggests the COVID-19 recession was more U-shaped than L-shaped. As with linear time series models, it is important to account for extreme outliers during ...Article -
Quarterly data for examining water market functionality in the sMDB
Published 2023-08-30This dataset provides quarterly statistics generated based on transactional level water trading data for key trading zones in the sMDB. All market transaction data were sourced from NSW and VIC state water registers. Ratios ...Open AccessDataset