Research

Publications

• 2025
  Health externalities to labor productivity and optimal policies with endogenous fertility, labor and longevity. Yew, S. L., Zhang, J., April 2025, In: Journal of Population Economics.

• 2024
  Do unconditional cash transfers increase fertility? Lessons from a large-scale program.   
  Awaworyi Churchill, S., Iqbal, N., Nawaz, S. & Yew, S. L., Jan 2024, In: Economic Inquiry. 

• Optimal Parental Leave Subsidization with Endogenous Fertility and Growth.
  Yew, S. L., Li, S. M.,  Moslehi, S., Jan 2024, In Economic Inquiry.

• Unconditional cash transfers, health and savings.   
  Awaworyi Churchill, S., Iqbal, N., Nawaz, S. & Yew, S. L., Apr 2024, In: Economics and Human Biology. 

• A financial disaster in the making: temperature shocks, climate change and savings.   
  Trinh, T-A., Smyth, R., Awaworyi Churchill, S.  & Yew, S. L., Dec 2024, In: Energy Research & Social Science. 

• 2022
  Local crime and fertility
  Awaworyi Churchill, S., Smyth, R., Trinh, T-A. & Yew, S. L., Aug 2022, In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 200, p. 312-331 20 p.

• Health status and housing tenure decisions of older Australians
  Awaworyi Churchill, S., Yew, S. L. & Nguyen, T. M. T., Winter 2022, In: Real Estate Economics. 50(4), p. 966-989 24 p.

• 2021
  Gender health gaps: the role of risky addictive behaviors
  Hailemariam, A., Yew, S. L. & Appau, S., Nov 2021, In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 191, p. 639-660 22 p.

• The impact of energy poverty on physical violence
  Hailemariam, A., Sakutukwa, T. & Yew, S. L., Aug 2021, In: Energy Economics. 100, 11 p., 105336.

• Unconditional cash transfers, child labour and education: theory and evidence
  Awaworyi Churchill, S., Iqbal, N., Nawaz, S. & Yew, S. L., Jun 2021, In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 186, p. 437-457 21 p.

• 2018
  Health spending, savings and fertility in a lifecycle-dynastic model with longevity externalities
  Yew, S. L. & Zhang, J., 1 Feb 2018, In: Canadian Journal of Economics. 51, 1, p. 186-215 30 p.

• The effect of military expenditure on growth: an empirical synthesis
  Awaworyi Churchill, S. & Yew, S. L., Nov 2018, In: Empirical Economics. 55, 3, p. 1357-1387 31 p. 

       Media coverage:  The Economist : What bigger military budgets mean for the economy

• 2017
  Are government transfers harmful to economic growth? A meta-analysis
  Awaworyi Churchill, S. & Yew, S. L., Aug 2017, In: Economic Modelling. 64, p. 270-287 18 p.

• Does government size affect per-capita income growth? A hierarchical meta-regression analysis
  Awaworyi Churchill, S., Ugur, M. & Yew, S. L., Mar 2017, In: Economic Record. 93, 300, p. 142-171 30 p.

• Government education expenditures and economic growth: A meta-analysis
  Churchill, S. A., Ugur, M. & Yew, S. L., 1 Jun 2017, In: The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics. 17, 2, 17 p., 20160109.

• 2016
  Media coverage: 'Big government' hurts growth? It’s not as simple as that
  Awaworyi Churchill, S., Ugur, M. & Yew, S. L., 15 Dec 2016, 3 p. The Conversation.

• Public–private mix of health expenditure: A political economy and quantitative analysis
  Li, S. M., Moslehi, S. & Yew, S. L., 2016, In: Canadian Journal of Economics. 49, 2, p. 834-866 33 p.

• 2013
  Socially optimal social security and education subsidization in a dynastic model with human capital externalities, fertility and endogenous growth
  Yew, S. L. & Zhang, J., 2013, In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 37, 1, p. 154 - 175 22 p.

• 2009
  Optimal social security in a dynastic model with human capital externalities, fertility and endogenous growth
  Yew, S. L. & Zhang, J., 2009, In: Journal of Public Economics. 93, 3-4, p. 605 - 619 15 p.