Research

Publications

Refereed journal articles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  1. Do socioeconomic health gradients persist over time and beyond income? A distributional analysis using UK biomarker data (with Davillas, A., Jones, A., Sharma, A.). Economics and Human Biology (2021).

  2. Fuel poverty policy: go big and go home insulation or solar (with R. Best). Energy Economics (2021)

  3. An economic evaluation of Australia’s newborn hearing screening programme: A Within-study cost-effectiveness analysis (Sharma, R., Gu, Y., Sinha, K., Marnane, V., Ching, TC.,Wang, J., and Gold, L.,Wake, M and Parkinson, B.). Ear and Hearing (2021).

  4. Constructing a valid counterfactual to evaluate an income-targeted policy: means-tested subsidies and tax penalties on private health insurance hospital coverage (with Bilgrami, A., Cutler, H., Cheng, Z.). Economic Record (2021).

  5. Does introducing a national Paid Parental Leave scheme improve maternal mental health? (with A. Bilgrami and H. Cutler). Health Economics (2020).

  6. Mapping CHU-9D utility values from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) (with R. Sharma, Y. Gu, B. Parkinson), Quality of Life Research (2019).

  7. Differentiating Between Dimensionality and Duration in Multidimensional Measures of Poverty: Methodology with an Application to China, 2019,(with Nicholas A. and Ray, R.), Review of Income and Wealth.

  8. Pricing as a means of controlling alcohol consumption, 2017, (with Sharma, A and Vandenberg B.), British Medical Bulletin.

  9. The Effect of Introducing a Minimum Price on Alcohol Consumption: A Counterfactual Analysis, 2016, (with Sharma, A. and Etilé, F), Health Economics.

  10. A longitudinal study of the cost of food in Victoria influenced by geography and nutritional quality, 2016, (with Palermo, C., McCartan, J., Kleve, S., Laurence, S., Shiell, A.) Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health.

  11. Estimation of Item Specific Intra and Inter Country Food Purchasing Power Parities with Application to Cross Country Comparisons of Food Expenditure: India, Indonesia and Vietnam, 2016, (with Majumder A and Ray R.), Indian Growth and Development Review.

  12. A Lifecycle Perspective of Stock Market Performance and Wellbeing, 2015, (with Frijters, P., Johnston, D. and Shields, M.) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 112, 237-250.

  13. Spatial Comparison of Prices and Expenditure in a Heterogenous Country: Methodology with Applications to India, 2015, (with Majumder, A. and Ray, R), Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol 19, issue 5, pp. 931-989.

  14. Multidimensional Deprivation in China, India and Vietnam: A Comparative Study on Micro Data, 2015, (with Ray, R), Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 16.1, pp. 69-93.

  15. Estimating Intra Country and Cross Country Purchasing Power Parities from Household Expenditure Data Using Single Equation and Complete Demand Systems Approach: India and Vietnam, Review of Income and Wealth, 2015, 16 (2). (with Majumder, A., Ray, R).

  16. Rangarajan Committee Report of Poverty Measurement - Another Lost Opportunity, 2014, (with Ray R.), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLIX, No 32.

  17. An Instrument for measuring the Relative Social Willingness to Pay for health state improvement, 2014, (with Richardson J, Iezzi A, McKie J.), Health Economics, 23 (7), 792-805.

  18. Modelling Utility Weights for the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL)-8D, 2014,(with J. Richardson, Iezzi, A and Khan, M), Quality of Life Research, Oct, 23(8):2395-404.

  19. Temporal Comparison of Prices, Expenditure and Growth in India: A State-wise Analysis, 2013, (with Majumder, A., Ray, R). Indian Growth and Development Review, Vol 6 (2).

  20. The Calculation of Rural Urban Food Price Differentials from Unit Values in Household Expenditure Surveys: a new procedure and comparison with existing methods, 2012, (with Majumder, A. and Ray, R) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 94 (5).

  21. Endogenous Intra-household Decision Making and its Impact on Couple’s Labour Supply in Rural India, Asian Economic Journal, 2012, 26(2), 137-157.

  22. Maximising health versus sharing: Measuring preferences for the allocation of the health budget, 2012, (with Richardson, J., Iezzi, A and Maxwell, A.) Social Science and Medicine, Vol 75 (8), pp 1351- 1361.

  23. Interaction between HIV awareness, knowledge, safe sex practice and HIV incidence: evidence from Botswana, 2012, (with Ray, R.), Journal of Biosocial Science, 44, 321-344.

  24. Measuring the multidimensional knowledge deprivation of HIV/AIDS: a new approach with Indian evidence on its magnitude and determinants, 2011, (with Ray, R) Journal of Biosocial Science, 43(6), 657-84.

  25. Utility weights for the vision-related Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL)-7D instrument, 2012, (with Richardson, J., Iezzi, A., Peacock, S., Sinha, K., Khan, M., Misajon, R., and Keeffe, J.) Ophthalmic Epidemiology 19, no. 3 (2012): 172-182.

  26. Predicting time trade-off health state valuations of adolescents in four Pacific countries using the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL-6D) Instrument, 2010, (with Moodie, M, Richardson, J, Rankin, B, and Iezzi, A), Value in Health, 13 (8), pp. 1014-1027.

  27. The need for a new framework for the economic evaluation of health services in a national health scheme, 2010 (with Richardson, J and McKie, J.), Health, 2(9). Book Chapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  28. Richardson., J, J. McKie and K. Sinha, (2009) A Critique of Efficiency-Focused Economic Evaluation in the Context of a NHS: The Case for Empirical Ethics, M Schlander (ed) Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programs: Current Concepts, Controversies and International Experience. Springer, New York.

  29. Ray, R and K. Sinha, (2019), Food Consumption, Calorie Intake and Undernourishment in India: The Recent Evidence, Batabyal, A., Nijkamp and Higano (ed) Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia, Springer. Papers under review/submission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  30. Classification and Regression Tree analysis: A new approach to Mapping Non-Preference Based Outcome Measures to utility values (with S. M. Aghdaee, B. Parkinson, M. Gumbie, E. Olin, H. Cutler) Accepted for the conference Summer HESG 2019 , University of East Anglia, UK. Journal review status: R&R.

  31. Evaluating a universal newborn hearing screening programme: tackling several methodological challenges using real-world data (with R. Sharma, Y. Gu, B. Parkinson). Accepted for the conference Nordic HESG 2019, University of Iceland.

  32. Analyzing the relationship between income inequality and health in China (with H. Cheng and T. Bryant). Journal review status: under submission.

  33. Understanding multidimensional knowledge deprivation of HIV/AIDS among Bangladeshi women (with Zobaida Ahmad Piu and Elisabetta Magnani). R&R.

  34. Rate of return to work and welfare dependency for mothers of preterm babies (with Rahman, Fahmida; Schofield, Deborah; Shrestha, Rupendra; Tarnow-Mordi, William). Journal review status: Under Review.

  35. Global Financial Crisis and Multidimensional deprivation in Australia (with R. Ray, P. Singh). Journal review status: Under Review. Work in progress . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .

  36. Analysis of the impact of economic policy in influencing multidimensional disadvantage in the U.K. (with Davillas, A., and Jones, A.)

  37. Child health in India: Recent evidence on the role of welfare schemes (with R. Ray).

  38. Utilities among children with hearing loss based on the comparative assessment of mapped CHU9D and observed HUI3 utilities (Sharma, R., Gu, Y., Sinha, K., Marnane, V., Ching, TC.,Wang, J., Gold, L.,Wake, M. and Parkinson, B).

  39. Evaluating a universal newborn hearing screening program using real-world data: Tackling several methodological challenges (Sharma, R., Gu, Y., Sinha, K., Marnane, V., Ching, TC., Wang, J., and Gold, L.,Wake, M and Parkinson, B.).

  40. Health effects of retirement and mediating role of income (with A. Harris, Monash University).

  41. Effect of new information on arsenic contamination of drinking water on subjective well-being (with Shyamal Chowdhury, Klaus Zimmermann).

  42. The impact of harmonising Australia’sWorkplace Health and Safety laws on the probability of past-year workers compensation (with Anam Bilgrami, Henry Cutler) Permanent Working Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .

  43. Richardson J, Iezzi A, Khan M, Sinha K, Mihalopoulos C, Herrman H, Hawthorne G, Schweitzer I, (2009), Data used in the development of the AQoL-8D (PsyQoL) Quality of Life Instrument, Research Paper 40, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne.

  44. Richardson J, Khan M, Iezzi A, Sinha K, Mihalopoulos C, Herrman H, Hawthorne G, Schweitzer I (2009), The AQoL-8D (PsyQoL) MAU Instrument: Overview, September 2009, Research Paper 39, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne.

  45. Richardson J, Iezzi A, Sinha K, Khan M, Peacock S, Hawthorne G, Misajon R, Keeffe J. (2009). AQoL-7D (Vision) Instrument: Overview, survey results and ultility algorithms, Research Paper 45.

  46. Richardson J, Iezzi A, Sinha, K, McKie, J. (2010). The Relative Social Willingness to Pay (RS-WTP): Updated Results, Research Paper 53, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne.

  47. Richardson J, Sinha K, and Iezzi A, (2011) Measuring the importance of efficiency in the equity-efficiency trade-off in health care decision making, Research Paper 65, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne.

  48. Richardson J, Sinha K, Iezzi A, Khan MA. (2011). Modelling the Utility of Health States with the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) 8D Instrument: Overview and Utility Scoring Algorithm. Research Report 63, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne.