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Locus of control and energy poverty
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - In: Energy economics 104 (2021), pp. 1-18
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Children and Parental Health: Evidence from China
Islam, Asadul; Smyth, Russell - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2010
In most developing countries children provide some form of insurance against risks when parents are old, which, in turn …, justifies parental preference to have more children. In this paper, we examine the causal effect of number of children on … number of children in a family is not exogenously determined, we use a natural experiment (variations in China’s one child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492292
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Are More Senior Academics Really More Research Productive than Junior Academics? Evidence from Australian Law Schools
Mishra, Vinod; Smyth, Russell - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012
This study examines the relationship between academic seniority and research productivity for a sample of academics at Australian law schools. To measure research productivity we use both publications in top law journals, variously defined, and citation metrics. A feature of the study is that we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861710
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Academic Inbreeding and Research Productivity in Australian Law Schools
Mishra, Vinod; Smyth, Russell - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012
This study compares the research productivity of inbred and non-inbred faculty employed at Australian law schools. The sample consists of 429 academics, employed at 21 law schools. To measure research productivity we use both articles and pages published in top law journals, defined in six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010615295
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The Impact of Immigration on Native Workers in Australia
Parasnis, Jaai; Smyth, Russell; Fausten, Dietrich - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2006
Immigration leads to a change in the supply of workers across skill groups. The resulting impact on employment and earnings of native workers is estimated using an innovative approach developed by Borjas (2003). The approach takes into account the skill differentials in the labour force and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010582206
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Are you Puffing your Children's Future Away? Energy Poverty and Childhood Exposure to Passive Smoking
Prakash, Kushneel; Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi; Smyth, Russell - 2022
We examine whether having a parent who smoked during one's childhood or adolescence increases the probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that people who had a parent who smoked when they were young are 0.8 to 1.4 percentage points more likely to be in energy poverty later...
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