Research

Working Papers

• Parasnis, J, Paterson, M and Rendall, M. 2022. 'Gender, Income, and Numeracy Test Scores'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research.: Working paper available here. 

• Barigozzi, F., Parasnis, J., & Tani, M. (2022). Gender, motivation, and self-selection into teaching. IZA DP 15532

Referred Publications

• Akgüç, M. and Parasnis, J. (2023). Occupation–Education Mismatch of Immigrant Women in Europe. Social Indicators Research, pp.1-24. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-023-03066-0 

Featured the Green European Journal: link

• Mishra, A. and Parasnis, J. (2022). Intentions for a third child: The role of parental sex composition preferences. Kyklos, 75(3), pp.472-487. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/kykl.12298 

• Islam, A. & Parasnis, J. (2022) Heterogeneous Effects of Health Shocks in Developed Countries: Evidence from Australia, Southern Economic Journal, 89(2), 471-492. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12604 

• Mishra, A., Mishra, V., & Parasnis, J. (2021). The asymmetric role of crime in women's and men's labour force participation: Evidence from India. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 188, 933-961. 

• Carroll, D., Parasnis, J. and Tani, M. (2021) " Why do women become teachers while men don’t? ", The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Earlier version available  here

This research is covered in media as an article in The Conversation, reprinted in SBS Insight and The Mandarin

• Mishra, A. and Parasnis, J. (2021) "Husband, Sons and Fertility Gap: Evidence from India", Journal of Population Research, Link to the article 

• Parasnis, J. & Swan, J. (2019) "Differences in educational attainment by country of origin: Evidence from Australia", Migration Studies , DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnz008 

• Mishra, A., & Parasnis, J. (2017). Peers and fertility preferences: An empirical investigation of the role of neighbours, religion and education. Social Indicators Research, 134(1), 339-357.  (available here)

• Islam, A. and Parasnis, J. (2016), "Native-migrant wage differential across occupations: Evidence from Australia", International Migration, doi: 10.1111/imig.12236 

• Lee, Grace and Parasnis, Jaai, (2014) “Additional Workers in Developing Countries and Discouraged Workers in Developed Countries? Unemployment and Labor Participation”, Economic Modelling, 41(C), 90-98.                   . 

• Islam, Asadul, Parasnis, Jaai and Fausten, Dietrich,(2013) “Do Immigrants Save Less than Natives? Immigrant and Native Saving Behaviour in Australia”, The Economic Record, vol. 89(284), pages 52-71 . 

•   Dharmaratna, Dinusha and Parasnis, Jaai, (2012) “An Analysis of the Cost Structure of Water Supply in Sri Lanka”, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 17, No. 2, 298-314.

•   Dharmaratna, Dinusha and Parasnis, Jaai, (2011)  “Price Responsiveness of Residential, Industrial and Commercial Water Demand in Sri Lanka”, Asia Pacific Journal of Economics & Business 15, No.2 . 

•   Parasnis, Jaai, (2010) “Estimating the Relationship between Immigrant and Native Workers in Australia: A Production Theory Approach”, Australian Economic Papers, 49(1) , 73-85. 

•   Parasnis, Jaai , Fausten, Dietrich and Cheo, Roland, (2008) “Do Australian Qualifications Help? The Effect of Host Country Qualification on Migrant Participation and Unemployment,” The Economic Record, 84, S131-S140.

• Parasnis, Jaai, (2006) “Segregation in the Australian Labour Market”, Australian Economic Papers, 45 (4), 318-332. 

•  Parasnis, Jaai and Tombazos, Christis,(2003)  “On Applications of Duality to the Study of Immigration,” Economic Papers, 22(1), 46-57.

Articles

•  Dharmaratna, Dinusha and Parasnis, Jaai, “An Analysis of the Cost Structure of Water Supply in Sri Lanka” Discussion Paper 1236, Global Water Forum, published on 22 September 2012, available at Article (Water Supply: Sri Lanka)

Grants

2019

Monash Education Academy Inter-Faculty Transformation Grant

Jaai Parasnis is part of an Interfaculty Team of 8 researchers from 4 Faculties. Awarded $68,607 over two years for project “Tolerance of Uncertainty & Ambiguity (ToU/ToA): Identifying mechanisms for integrating this critical Future Education skill into higher education (HE).

2017

• Department of Economics (Monash University) Innovations in Teaching Grant: (Joint with Ass Prof Simon Angus) for project “The impact of Assessment design on outcomes in Economics 2010-2017” 

• Monash Business School and Faculty of Arts, Monash University grant (joint with Associate Professor Dharmalingam Arunachalam, Monash University) for project “Migration and Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Australia”

2016

Graduate Careers Australia's Graduate Research Program: Awarded $48,000 (jointly with Prof Tani, UNSW) for project titled “Graduate Teacher Labour Supply Considerations.