Kushneel Prakash
Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow
Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research
The University of Melbourne
Email: kushneel.prakash@unimelb.edu.au / kushneelprakash@gmail.com
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I am a Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow at the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research at The University of Melbourne.
I have obtained my PhD in Economics degree from Monash University, Melbourne. My PhD thesis received the Mollie-Holman Award [Gold medal] from Monash University recognising the Best PhD thesis for the Faculty of Business and Economics in 2020.
My research interests are in the areas of applied economics with focus to health economics, economics of happiness, energy economics and other contemporary issues with central theme on ways to make this world a healthier and happier place to live in by each passing day.
In my current project, I am examining the dynamics of Financial Literacy, Non-cognitive skills and Wellbeing.
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Latest publications
Latest publications
Smoking to your kids gain? Childhood exposure to parental smoking and obesity
(with Sanjesh Kumar)Published in Economics & Human Biology, 56, 101473, February, 2025
[ABDC - A]
[ABDC - A]
Refereed Research Articles
Refereed Research Articles
Entrepreneurship and subjective wellbeing in China: Exploring linkages and potential channels
(with Isaac Koomson, Quanda Zhang)Published in Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 21, June, 2024
[ABDC - A]
[ABDC - A]
(with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth)
Published in Health Economics, 31 (7), 1381-1401, 2022
Top Cited Article (1 of 10 most cited papers published in Health Economics over 1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023)
Published in Health Economics, 31 (7), 1381-1401, 2022
[ABDC - A*]
[ABDC - A*]
Top Cited Article (1 of 10 most cited papers published in Health Economics over 1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023)
Are you puffing your children's future away? Energy poverty and childhood exposure to passive smoking
(with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth)Published in Economic Modelling, 114, 105937, September, 2022
[ABDC - A]
[ABDC - A]
(with Musharavati Ephraim Munyanyi)
Published in Energy Economics, 101, 105428, September, 2021
Published in Energy Economics, 101, 105428, September, 2021
[ABDC - A*]
[ABDC - A*]
Locus of control and the gender gap in mental health
(with Russell Smyth, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Musharavati Ephraim Munyanyi)Published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organisation (JEBO), 178, 740-758, October, 2020
[ABDC - A*]
[ABDC - A*]
Petrol prices and subjective wellbeing
(with Russell Smyth, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill)Awarded "Best Paper" prize in the Monash Business School's 2nd Doctoral Colloquium, Nov 2019.
In the News
Published in Energy Economics, 90, 104867, July 2020
[ABDC - A*]
[ABDC - A*]
{ PhD Paper 3 }
Housing wealth and happiness in Urban China
(with Russell Smyth, Zhiming Cheng, Haining Wang)Published in Cities, 96, 102470, January 2020
[ERA - A]
[ERA - A]
{ PhD Paper 2 }
(with Russell Smyth)
Published in China Economic Review, 58, 101350, December 2019
Awarded "Poster Prize" in the Monash University "Conference on Randomised Trials", Dec 2019. [Certificate]
Published in China Economic Review, 58, 101350, December 2019
Awarded "Poster Prize" in the Monash University "Conference on Randomised Trials", Dec 2019. [Certificate]
[ABDC - A]
[ABDC - A]
{ PhD Paper 1 }
Does globalization affect visitor arrivals in Pacific island developing states: The case of Fiji
(with Radhika Ram)Published in Journal of Applied Business and Economics, 19(9), 112-124, 2017
[ABDC - C]
[ABDC - C]
Does devaluation improve trade balance in small island economies? The case of Fiji
(with Dibyendu Maiti)Published in Economic Modelling, 55, 382-393, 2016
[ABDC - A]
[ABDC - A]
{Masters Research paper}
Is the Dutch disease effect valid in relation to remittances and the real exchange rate in Fiji?
(with Anjani Mala)Published in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 21(4), 571-577, 2016
[ABDC - B]
[ABDC - B]
Book chapters:
Book chapters:
The debt experience of SIDS in the Pacific
(with Biman Prasad)Published in Debt and Development in Small Island Developing States, D. King and D. Tennant (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan Press, 71-95, 2014
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