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Michael Kidd

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
Teaching Interests/
units taught at Deakin		 MAE101 Economic Principles
MAF256 Introduction to Quantitative Finance and Economics
MAE304 Labour Economics
Research interests Labour economics
Health Economics
Experimental Economics
Link to Research Output
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