Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Nguyen, H.T., Zajac, T., Tomaszewski, W., Mitrou, F., 2025. Educational pathways and earnings trajectories of second-generation immigrants in Australia: New insights from linked census-administrative data. Economics of Education Review: 109(December): 102716. Open access. Replication package is available HERE.

2. Nguyen, H.T., Mitrou, F., 2025. Natural disasters and the demand for health insurance. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management: 130(March): 103108, Open access. Media coverage: Conversation article, featured at The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction 

3. Nguyen, H.T., Mitrou, F., 2025. Extreme weather events, home damage, and the eroding locus of control.  Ecological Economics 235C: 108659. Open access

4. Nguyen, L., Connelly, L.B., Birch, S., Nguyen, H.T., 2025. Change in dental visits among eligible children under the impact of the Child Dental Benefits Schedule in Australia. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 53(4): 362-372. Open access 

5. Nguyen, H.T., Zubrick, S.R., Mitrou, F., 2024. Daylight duration and time allocation of children and adolescents. Economics & Human Biology 55(December): 101435. Open access

6. Nguyen, L., Connelly, L.B., Birch, S., Nguyen, H.T., 2024. Origins and developmental paths of medical conditions from mid-childhood to mid-adolescence in Australia: Early-life adverse conditions and their lasting effects. SSM - Population Health 28(December): 101717. Open access

7. Bailey, S., … Nguyen, H.T. …, 2024. Prevalence, distribution, and inequitable co-occurrence of mental ill-health and substance use among gender and sexuality diverse young people in Australia: epidemiological findings from a population-based cohort study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 59: 2323–2337. Open access

8. Nguyen, H.T., Zubrick, S., Mitrou, F., 2024. The effects of sleep duration on child health and development. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 221(May): 35-51. Open access

9. Nguyen, H.T., Mitrou, F., Zubrick, S., 2024. Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality - A causal investigation. Journal of Housing Economics 63(March): 101977. Open access

10. Mitrou, F., Nguyen, H.T., Le, H.T., Zubrick, S.R., 2024. The causal impact of mental health on tobacco and alcohol consumption: an instrumental variables approach. Empirical Economics 66:1287–1310. Open access

11. Howells, S., Nguyen, H.T., Brinkman, S., Mitrou, F., 2024. Investigating the validity of the Australian Early Development Census. Child Psychiatry & Human Development 55(6): 1564–1581. Open access

12. Nguyen, H.T., Le, H.T., Connelly, L., Mitrou, F., 2023. Accuracy of self-reported private health insurance coverage. Health Economics 32(12):2709-2729. Open access

13. Nguyen, H.T., Christian, H., Le, H.T., Connelly, L., Zubrick, S.R., Mitrou, F., 2023. The impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep of child-parent dyads. Science of The Total Environment, 880(July): 163249.

14. Nguyen, H.T., Brinkman, S., Le, H.T., Zubrick, S.R., Mitrou, F., 2022. Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents. Economics of Education Review 89(August): 102270.

15. Nguyen, H.T., Le, H.T., Connelly, L.B., 2021. Weather and children’s time allocation. Health Economics 30(7): 1559-1579. 

16. Nguyen, H.T., Le, H.T., Connelly, L.B., 2021. Who's declining the “free lunch”? New evidence from the uptake of public child dental benefits. Health Economics, 30(2): 270-288. Media coverage: Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and Brisbane Times.

17. Nguyen, H.T., Connelly, L., Le, H.T., Mitrou, F., Taylor, C., Zubrick, S., 2020. Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments. Journal of Population Economics, 33(4): 1381-1418. Media coverage: The Australian

18. Nguyen, H.T., Duncan, A.S., 2020. Macroeconomic fluctuations in home countries and immigrants’ well-Being: New evidence from Down Under. International Migration Review, 54(1): 205-232. 

19. Kendall, G.E., Nguyen, H.T., Ong, R., 2019. The association between income, wealth, economic security perception, and health: a longitudinal Australian study. Health Sociology Review, 28(1): 20-38.

20. Le, H.T. & Nguyen, H.T., 2018. The impact of maternal mental health shocks on child health: Estimates from fixed effects instrumental variables models for two cohorts of Australian children, American Journal of Health Economics, 4(2): 185-225.

21. Le, H.T., Nguyen, H.T., 2018. The gender wage gap in the Vietnamese transition, 1993 – 2008. Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 13(4): 71-111.

22. Le, H.T., Nguyen, H.T., 2018. The evolution of the gender test score gap through seventh grade: New insights from Australia using unconditional quantile regression and decomposition. IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 7: 2.

23. Nguyen, H.T., & Connelly, L.B., 2018. Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries’ macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants’ mental health, Health Economics, 27(1): 189-208.

24. Nguyen, H.T., Duncan, A., 2017. Exchange rate fluctuations and immigrants’ labour market outcomes: New evidence from Australian household panel data, Journal of International Economics, 105(March): 174-186. This article has been awarded Curtin Faculty of Business and Law’s 2017 Article of the Year Award.

25. Le, H.T., Nguyen, H.T., 2017. Parental health and children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development: New evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children. Health Economics, 26: 1767-1788.

26. Nguyen, H.T., & Connelly, L.B., 2017. The dynamics of informal care provision in the Australian household panel survey: Previous work characteristics and future care provision, Economic Record, 93(302): 395–419.

27. Nghiem, H.S., Nguyen, H.T., Connelly, L.B., 2016. The efficiency of schools in Australia: A Nationwide analysis using gains in students’ test scores as outputs, Economics Papers 35: 256-268.

28. Nghiem, H.S., Nguyen, H.T., Khanam, R., Connelly, L.B., 2015. Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools. Labour Economics 33(April): 55-65. Media coverage: Sydney Morning Herald (2013), the Age, Brisbane Times, The Mercury, The Australians, ABC’s AM, Sydney Morning Herald (2015), The Daily Telegraph, Times Educational Supplement (UK), Channel 9 – 60 Minutes, National Nine News; National Nine Early News; Channel 7 – Seven News; Channel 10 – TEN Eyewitness News, Studio 10; News.com.au; AM ABC Radio – Nationwide; FM ABC Radio – Nationwide; ABC Online News; Sky News Live; The Courier Mail; The Australian; The Age; The Sydney Morning Herald; Daily Telegraph Australia; Australian Financial Review; and The Daily Examiner. My media interview: Chanel 9 in 1/2016. This article has been awarded Curtin Business School’s 2015 Article of the Year Award.

29. Nguyen, H.T., & Connelly, L.B. (2014). The effect of unpaid caregiving intensity on labour force participation: results from a multinomial endogenous treatment model. Social Science & Medicine, 100(January): 115-122.

30. Nguyen, H.T., & Leung, S. (2013). Dynamics of health insurance enrolment in Vietnam, 2004 - 06. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 18(4): 594-614.

31. Cobb-Clark, D. A., & Nguyen, H.T. (2012). Educational attainment across generations: The role of immigration background. Economic Record, 88(283): 554-575.

32. Nguyen, H.T., Liu, A. Y. C., & Booth, A. L. (2012). Monetary transfers from children and the labour supply of elderly parents: Evidence from Vietnam. Journal of Development Studies, 48(8): 1177-1191.

Note: Journals listed in bold are rated A*, the highest category, according to the current Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal quality list.

Book Chapter

1.   Nguyen, H.T., 2019. Migration duration and migration outcomes. In: Liu AYC & Meng X (eds.) Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 97-115.

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Nguyen, H.T., Mitrou, F., 2025. Cyclones drive people to buy health insurance, more so than some government campaigns. The Conversation

2. Mitrou, F., Nguyen, H.T., 2024. Evaluation of the Adult Migrant English Program for the Australian Government Department of Home Affairs. International Journal of Population Data Science 9(5). doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2563 

Working Papers

1. Nguyen, H.T., Mitrou, F., 2025. Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the causal impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction. MPRA paper No 125390

2. Nguyen, H.T., Mitrou, F., 2025. The distributional effects of natural disasters on the Big Five personality traits. GLO Discussion Paper Series 1632

3. Nguyen, H.T., Mitrou, F., 2025. Inconsistencies in self-reported weather-related home damage among household members. GLO Discussion Paper No. 1624

4. Nguyen, H.T., Schurer, S., Mitrou, F., 2024. The (in)stability of locus of control: New insights from distributional effects of major life events.  GLO Discussion Paper No. 1532.

5. Nguyen, H.T., Le, H.T., Blyth, C., Connelly, L., Mitrou, F., 2024. Identifying the effects of health insurance coverage on health care use when coverage is misreported and endogenous. GLO Discussion Paper No. 1432.

6. Nguyen, H.T., Mitrou, F., 2024. Residential responses to cyclones: New evidence from Australia. GLO Discussion Paper No. 1426.

7. Nguyen, H.T., Christian, H., Le, H.T., Connelly, L., Zubrick, S.R., Mitrou, F., 2022. Causal impact of physical activity on child health and development. GLO Discussion Paper No. 1081.

8. Nguyen, H.T., Mitrou, F., Taylor, C., Zubrick, S., 2020. Does retirement lead to life satisfaction? Causal evidence from fixed effect instrumental variable models. Life Course Centre Working Paper No 2020-10.

9. Nguyen, H.T., Connelly, L., Le, H.T., Mitrou, F., Taylor, C., Zubrick, S., 2019. Sources of ethnicity differences in non-cognitive development in children and adolescents. Life Course Centre Working Paper No 2019-21.

10. Nguyen, H.T., Connelly, L.B., 2017. Cost-sharing in health insurance and its impact in a developing country–Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment. Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) working paper number 17-02.

Commissioned Reports

1. Mitrou, F., Nguyen, H.T., 2023. Research Paper E: Employment outcomes of AMEP clients. Research paper from Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Impact Evaluation Project submitted to Department of Home Affairs

2. Mitrou, F., Nguyen, H.T., 2023. Research Paper D: Income support payment outcomes of AMEP clients. Research paper from Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Impact Evaluation Project submitted to Department of Home Affairs

3. Mitrou, F., Nguyen, H.T., 2023. Research Paper C: Determinants of AMEP participation. Research paper from Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Impact Evaluation Project submitted to Department of Home Affairs

4. Mitrou, F., Nguyen, H.T., 2023. Research Paper B: Validating self-reported English proficiency levels in the Census. Research paper from Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Impact Evaluation Project submitted to Department of Home Affairs

5. Mitrou, F., Nguyen, H.T., 2023. Research Paper A: Profile of AMEP clients 2003-2019. Research paper from Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Impact Evaluation Project submitted to Department of Home Affairs

6. Dockery, M.A., Nguyen, H.T., Sykes, E., 2018. Housing impacts for Australian children and adolescents: including Indigenous children in remote Australia. Report submitted to Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.

7. Bond-Smith S, Duncan A, Kiely D, Leong K, Nguyen, H, and Ong R (2017), The Engine Room for Growth? The Role, Performance and Future Prospects of Small Business in Western Australia, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Focus on Western Australia Report Series, No. 9, May 2017.

8. Duncan A, Gao G, Nguyen H, Ong R and Tarverdi Y (2016), Back to the future: Western Australia’s economic future after the boom, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Focus on Western Australia Series, Issue #8, October 2016.

9. Bond-Smith S, Duncan AS, Nguyen, H, Kiely D, and Leong K (2016), From paddock to plate: WA’s potential in agriculture and agribusiness, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Focus on Industry Series, Issue #1, September 2016.

10. Kendall G, Ong R and Nguyen H (2016), Intergenerational Wealth Transfers and the Impact of Differential Access to Accumulated Wealth on Health and Wellbeing Outcomes: An Exploratory Australian Study, Final Report submitted to Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre.

11. Hodgson H, Tapper A and Nguyen H (2016), Inequality, income, wealth, aging, superannuation, Final Report submitted to Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre.

12. Dockery AM, Duncan A, Nguyen H and Ong R, 2015, Securing Our Future: Meeting the Challenges of WA’s Ageing Population, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Focus on Western Australia Series, Issue #6, November 2015.

13. Hilferty, F., Cassells, R., Muir, K., Duncan, A., Christensen, D., Mitrou, F., Gao, G., Mavisakalyan, A., Hafekost, K., Tarverdi, Y., Nguyen, H., Wingrove, C. and Katz, I. (2015). Is headspace making a difference to young people’s lives? Final Report of the independent evaluation of the headspace program. (SPRC Report 08/2015). Sydney: Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Australia.

14. Homel, J., Mavisakalyan, A., Nguyen, H. T., & Ryan, C. (2012). School completion: what we learn from different measures of family background, project report (# 59) to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research - NCVER.