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Professor Michael Kidd
Head of School
Professor in Economics
BEc(Hons) CNAA, MA Essex PhD Queens (Canada)
Tel: +61 3 9251 7230
Email: michael.kidd@deakin.edu.au
Office location: Melbourne Campus at Burwood
Commenced at Deakin: 2005
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Teaching Interests/ units taught at Deakin |
MAE101 Economic Principles
MAF256 Introduction to Quantitative Finance and Economics
MAE304 Labour Economics
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| Research interests |
Labour economics
Health Economics
Experimental Economics
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Link to Research Output
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| 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.
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| Forthcoming |
- Experimenting with Affirmative Action: The Coate and Loury Model, (with P Carlin and J Pot), forthcoming The Economic Record 2008.
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| 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).
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| 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.
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| Teaching Awards |
- 1st Year Microeconomics MAE101- Semester 2 2007
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