Consultancies and commissioned research

Completed projects

• New South Wales government, Australia (2019-24): Evaluation of a set of NSW Government’s policies which aims to transform the state’s social housing system.

• Perpetual (2016-22): Production and development of the Household Expenditure Measures (HEM).

• Australian Commonwealth Treasury (2018-21): Imputing expenditure data onto CAPITA, the Treasury’s tax and transfer microsimulation model, to allow for simulation of indirect tax reforms.

• New Zealand Treasury (2016): Building a module to allow for the computation of welfare changes in the New Zealand Treasury’s microsimulation model (Taxwell-B).

• New Zealand Treasury (2013): Advising Treasury in the estimation of labour supply models.

• University of Corsica (2012): Development of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Corsican economy.

• The World Bank (2012): Policy recommendations to improve the tax regime of micro-enterprises in the OHADA region. 

• European Commission (2011-12): Evaluation of the net fiscal impact of the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union in Central Africa .

• The Australian newspaper (2008): Project designed to investigate recent changes in the Australian tax and transfer system.

• Garnaut Climate Change Review (Australia, 2008): Project designed to analyse the distributional effects of climate change and mitigation policies in Australia (Report).

• Australian Labor Party (ALP, 2007): Evaluation of the Australian Labor Party’s alternatives for extensions to the child care benefit and child care tax rebate.

• Groupe d'échange et de recherche technologiques (GRET, France, 2003): Reporting on the OECD conference entitled “How Are Globalisation and Poverty Interacting, and What Can Governments Do About It?”.

Research Reports for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR, Australia) 

• Intergenerational correlation of labour market outcomes in Australia (2008, Report).

• The education and employment outcomes of youth in school-to-work transition (2009, Report).

• Dynamics of household joblessness in Australia 2001-2007 (2009, Report).

• Project designed to examine the effects of the changes to the tax and transfer system proposed by the Henry Tax Review (2010).

• The Effects of Income Support on Incentives to Work (2013, Report).

• The feasibility of building an add-on component for the CAPITA model to analyse the impact on labour supply of income support policies (2014).

Research Reports for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER, Australia)

• The role of Vocational and Educational Training in preventing the scarring effects of youth joblessness (2010, Report).

• The effect of Vocational and Educational Training completion on the wages of young people (2011, Report).

Journeys Home Research Reports (Australia)

• The Duration of Homelessness (Journeys Home Research Report No. 4 - August 2014, Chapter 3, Report).

• Journeys Home Research Report No. 6 - May 2015, (Report).