Biography
Dr Ha Vu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics in Deakin Business School. She is passionate about conducting research that has strong policy implications and has published extensively in the areas of social policies.
Her current research focus is on retirement income polices in Australia. Ha completed her PhD in Economics from the University of Melbourne in 2010.
Read more on Ha's profileResearch interests
- Applied Microeconomics
- Applied Econometrics
- Public Policies
- Labour Economics
- Development Economics
Affiliations
Honory Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
Research Affiliate, Tax and Transfer Policy Insitute, ANU
Teaching interests
- Labour Economics
- Development Economics
- International Trade and Finance
- Economics for Managers
Units taught
- MPE707 - International Banking and Finance
- MAE304 - Labour and Health Economics
Knowledge areas
Australian welfare and retirement income policies
Administrative data
Applied Econometrics
Conferences
- 'Impacts from delaying access to retirement benefits on welfare receipt and expenditure: Evidence from a natural experiment.', Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hongkong PRC, 3-5 June 2017.
Professional activities
Projects
- The impact of Activity Testing on benefit receipt of married women and their partners.
- Mental health impacts of teenage childbearing over the life-cycle
- Is the Australian Co-contribution superannuation scheme effective in promoting savings of low-income individuals?
- Liquity and retirement saving: Insights from superannuation preservation age reform
- Land tenure and fertifity choice
Publications
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Family Welfare Receipt
Marc Chan, Nicolas Herault, Ha Vu, Roger Wilkins
(2023), Journal of Labor Economics, Chicago, Ill., C1
Income and saving responses to tax incentives for private retirement savings
M Chan, T Morris, C Polidano, H Vu
(2022), Vol. 206, pp. 1-18, Journal of Public Economics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Teenage Mothers' Health across Different Life Stages
G Kalb, H Vu
(2022), Vol. 98, pp. 191-213, Economic Record, Chichester, Eng., C1
U Oguzoglu, C Polidano, H Vu
(2020), Vol. 96, pp. 65-86, Economic Record, C1
The ATO Longitudinal Information Files (ALife): A new resource for retirement policy research
C Polidano, A Carter, M Chan, A Chigavazira, H To, J Holland, S Nguyen, H Vu, R Wilkins
(2020), Vol. 53, pp. 429-449, Australian economic review, Chichester, Eng., C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Managing an ageing population for income adequacy and fiscal sustainability
Prof Roger Wilkins, Dr Cain Polidano, Dr Ha Vu, A/Prof Marc Chan, Dr Hang To, Mr Bruce Bastian
ARC Linkage - Projects
- 2020: $14,351
- 2019: $27,029
Other Public Sector Funding
Managing an ageing population for income adequacy and fiscal sustainability
Prof Roger Wilkins, Dr Cain Polidano, Dr Ha Vu, A/Prof Marc Chan, Dr Hang To, Mr Bruce Bastian
Australian Taxation Office
- 2020: $8,400
- 2019: $13,000
Supervisions
Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos
Thesis entitled: Essays on Labour Market Behaviour & Well-being
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Economics
Merve Kucuk
Thesis entitled: The Undisclosed Costs of Natural Disasters on Households and Governments
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Economics