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Returns to Education in Australia

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using data from the 2001-2005 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking …

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Estimating Returns to Education: Three Natural Experiment Techniques Compared

Leigh, Andrew; Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

twins. With annual pre-tax income as our measure of income, we find that the naïve (OLS) returns to an additional year of … higher return to education than previous studies, we believe that this is primarily due to the better measurement of income …

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Economic Voting and Electoral Behaviour: How do Individual, Local and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

What impact do income and other demographic factors have on a voter’s partisan choice? Using post-election surveys of …

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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

In “Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data...

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