Professor Michael Kidd

Present Position:
Head of School
Professor in Economics

Phone: +61 3 9251 7230
Email: mkidd@deakin.edu.au

Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood

Academic Qualifications: BEc(Hons) CNAA, MA Essex PhD Queens (Canada)

Commenced at Deakin: 2005

Books/publications/monographs
Reported in the Deakin University Annual Research Reports since 1995

Research Interests:

Publication Highlights

Occupational Access and Wage Discrimination (with P. J. Dolton) Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, October 1994, 457-74.
An Update and Extension of the Canadian Evidence on Gender Wage Differentials, (with M. Shannon) Canadian Journal of Economics, November 1994, 918-938.
The gender wage gap: A comparison of Australia and Canada, (with M Shannon) Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1996, 729-746.
The employment effects of gender discrimination in Australia 1994-5, (with I. Ferko), The Economic Record, 2001, vol. 77, no. 236, 71-88.
The hazards of starting and quitting smoking: Some Australian evidence, (with S. Hopkins), The Economic Record, June, 2004, vol 80, 249, 177-92.

Forthcoming

Experimenting with Affirmative Action: The Coate and Loury Model, (with P Carlin and J Pot), forthcoming The Economic Record 2008.

Current research projects

Experimenting with affirmative action- co-authors Ron Oaxaca (Arizona), Lata Gangadharan (Melbourne), Nick Feltovich (Aberdeen) and David Butler (Western Australia)
Market Salaries, Peer Productivity Ratings, Rank and the Academic Gender Wage Gap coauthors P Carlin (IUPUI), P Rooney (IUPUI) and B Denton (IUPUI).
Health insurance and health care utilisation in Australia - coauthor Sandra Hopkins (Curtin).

External Grants

2003-4 Australian Research Council Discovery grant - $75,000 joint Principal Researcher (with Ted Frech), and S. Hopkins as program leader. Topic- Health Economics.
1996-97 Australian Research Council Large Grant - A cross-country analysis of the gender wage gap: The role of occupations, institutions and wage inequality. Amount of award $64,000.

Teaching Awards

Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin