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:
- Labour economics
- Health Economics
- Experimental Economics.
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
- 1st Year Microeconomics MAE101- Semester 2 2007
Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin
- MAE101 Economic Principles
- MAF256 Introduction to Quantitative Finance and Economics
- MAE304 Labour Economics