Professor Breunig provides advice on modelling and using data. He helps a variety of government agencies conduct program evaluation including randomised control trials for impact evaluation. He provides education and training in a range of economic and statistical topics.
Professor Breunig is currently working with:
Productivity Commission, Australia
Australian Treasury
Australian Commonwealth Department of Education
Australian Commonwealth Department of Employment
Australian Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Border Protection
Melbourne Water
Australian Taxation Office
Good Beginnings / Save the Children Australia
Sample projects include:
Impact of housing assistance on employment outcomes
Women’s labour supply and childcare prices
Effect of minimum wage on employment outcomes
Costing the provision of extra services to disabled students
Evaluating employment assistance to special populations
He has recently worked with:
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Commonwealth Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIICSRTE)
Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
Australian Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Commonwealth Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Australia
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand
Fair Work Australia
Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (Australia)
Professor Breunig regularly conducts specialized, hands-on training for academics and public servants on using large data sets and on undertaking and interpreting statistical and econometric research. He regularly conducts courses on specialized econometric topics including limited dependent variables, non-parametric econometrics and panel data econometrics.
Below is a summary of courses and trainings and the partner organizations with which he has worked. More detail can be found on Professor Breunig’s CV.
Please contact me by email for information on any of these courses or other topics in which you may be interested.
A policy-makers guide to understanding micro-economics and macro-economics:
Commonwealth Department of Communications
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Crawford School Executive Education
Getting started with and using the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey:
Australian Treasury
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
University of New South Wales
Advanced Panel Data Econometrics:
Australian Treasury
Economic Society of Australia
Macquarie University
Reserve Bank of Australia
Sydney University
University of Western Sydney
Introductory Panel Data Econometrics:
Commonwealth Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Australian Treasury
Economic Society of Australia
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
University of Western Sydney
Econometrics and Policy Evaluation:
Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Limited Dependent Variable Econometrics:
Commonwealth Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
Australian Treasury
Jones Donald Strategy Partners
Non-parametric econometrics:
University of Rennes I (France)
Regulatory Econometrics:
Australian Centre for Regulatory Economics
Interpreting and Understanding the Significance and Limitations of Economic Data and Statistics:
Commonwealth Department of Communications
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
H. C. Coombs Policy Forum
Gauss Programming for Beginners:
Commonwealth Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Australian Treasury
Advanced Econometrics:
Australian Treasury
Productivity Commission
Introductory Econometrics:
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Australian Treasury