Selected Refereed Publications
Majeed, O., J. Hambur and R. Breunig (2025) "Does Monetary Policy Impact Innovation? Evidence from Australian Administrative Data". Journal of Macroeconomics, 103706. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., N. Deutscher and S. Hamilton (2024) “Rounded Up: Using Round Numbers to Identify Tax Evasion”. Journal of Public Economics, Volume 238, 105195. Link to working paper.
Carter, A. and R. Breunig (2024), “Tax bunching of very high earners: Evidence from Australia’s Division 293 tax”. Economic Record, Volume 100, Issue 330, pp. 343-372. Link to working paper.
Bayly, N., R. Breunig and C. Wokker (2024), “Female Board Representation and Corporate Performance: A Review and New Estimates for Australia”. Economic Record, Volume 100, Issue 330, pp. 386-417. “Link to replication code and data”. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Johnson, S., R. Breunig, M. Olivo-Villabrille and A. Zaresani (2024), “Individuals’ Responsiveness to Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence from Bunching in the Australian Personal Income Tax System”. Labour Economics, Volume 87, 102461. Link to working paper.
Zhang, J. and R. Breunig (2023), “Gender Norms and Domestic Abuse: Evidence from Australia”. Journal of Population Economics, Volume 36, pp. 2925-2965. Paper awarded Kuznets Prize. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Lancsar, E., E. Huynk, J. Swait, R. Breunig, C. Mitton, M. Kirk and C. Donaldson (2023), “Preparing for future pandemics: a multinational comparison of health and economic trade-offs”. Health Economics, Volume 32, Issue 7, pp. 1434-1452. Link to working paper.
Fabian, M., R. Breunig and J. De Neve (2023), “Explaining the Return of Racial Voting: Economic Anxiety, Psychological Wellbeing and Identity”. European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 147–166. Link to IZA Discussion paper.
Majeed, O. and R. Breunig (2022), “Determinants of Innovation Novelty: Evidence from Australian Administrative Data”. Innovation and New Technology, Volume 32, Number 8, pp. 1249-1273. Link to working paper.
Hasan, S., S. Shakur and R. Breunig (2021), “Exchange rates and expenditure of households with foreign-born members: evidence from Australia”. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 288, pp. 977–997. Link to working paper.
Van Kints, M. and R. Breunig (2021), “Inflation Variability across Australian Households: Implications for Inequality and Indexation policy”. Economic Record, Volume 97, Number 316, pp. 1–23. Link to working paper.
Bakhtiari, S., R. Breunig, E. Magnani and J. Zhang (2020), “Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises: A Review”. Economic Record, Volume 96, Number 315, pp. 506–523. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Freestone, O. and R. Breunig (2020), "Risk Aversion among Australian Households". Economic Record, Volume 96, Number 313, pp. 121–139. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and O. Majeed (2020), “Inequality, Poverty and Economic Growth”. International Economics, Volume 161, May, pp. 83-99. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and O. McCarthy (2020), "Household telecommunications expenditure in Australia". Telecommunications Policy, Volume 44, Issue 1, Article 101837. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., S. Hasan and K. Whiteoak (2019), “Value of playgrounds relative to green spaces: Matching evidence from property prices in Australia”. Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 190, Article 103608.
Carter, A. and R. Breunig (2019), “Do earned income tax credits for older workers prolong labor market participation and boost earned income? Evidence from Australia’s Mature Age Worker Tax Offset”. Economic Record, Volume 95, Number 309, pp. 220–226. Link to working paper.
van Dyke, A., A. Herrington, N. Crofts, R. Breunig, S. Burris, H. Sullivan, S. Sherman, J. Middleton, M. Punch, A. McLeod and N. Thomson (2019), “Redrawing the Thin Blue Line: Recognising and Enhancing Joined up Solutions at the Intersection of Law Enforcement and Public Health”. Lancet, Volume 393, Issue 10168, pp. 287–294. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., S. Hasan and B. Hunter (2019), “Financial stress and Indigenous Australians”. Economic Record, Volume 95, Number 308, pp. 34-57. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Deutscher, N. and R. Breunig (2018), “Baby Bonuses: natural experiments in cash transfers, birth timing and child outcomes”. Economic Record, Volume 94, Number 304, pp. 1-24. Link to working paper.
Bakhtiari, S. and R. Breunig (2018), “The role of Spillovers in Research and Development Expenditure in Australian Industries” Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Volume 27, Number 1, pp.14-38. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., N. Deutscher and H. Thi To (2017), “The Relationship between Immigration to Australia and the Labour Market Outcomes of Australian-Born Workers”. Economic Record, Volume 39, Number 301, pp. 255-276. Link to working paper.
Gong, X. and R. Breunig, R. (2017), “Child Care Assistance: Are subsidies or tax credits better?” Fiscal Studies, Volume 38, Number 1, pp. 7-48. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Bakhtiari, S. and R. Breunig (2017), “Demand Uncertainty and Outsourcing”. Review of Industrial Organization, Volume 50, Issue 1, pp. 69-90. Link to working paper.
Alexander, B. and R. Breunig (2016), “A Monte Carlo Study of Bias in Panel Probit Models”. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Volume 86, Number 1, pp. 74-90. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and T. C. Chia (2015), “Sovereign Ratings and Oil-Producing Countries: Have Sovereign Ratings Run Ahead of Fundamentals?” International Review of Finance, Volume 50, Number 1, pp. 113-138. Link to working paper.
Gong, X. and R. Breunig, R. (2014), “Channels of labour supply responses of lone parents to changed work incentives”. Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 66, pp. 916-939. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Breunig, R, X. Gong and D. Trott (2014), “The new National Quality Framework: quantifying some of the effects on labour supply, child care demand and household finances for two-parent households”. Economic Record, Volume 90, Number 288, pp. 1-16. Paper awarded Economic Record best paper prize. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., B. Garrett-Rumba, Y. Rocaboy and M. Jardin (2014), “Wage dispersion and team performance: a theoretical model and evidence from baseball”. Applied Economics, Volume 46, Issue 3, pp. 271-281. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., S. Hasan and M. Salehin (2013), “The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Australia: does unobserved heterogeneity matter?”. Economic Record, Volume 89, Number 287, pp. 490-507. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and S. Bakhtiari, S. (2013), “Outsourcing and Innovation: An empirical exploration of the dynamic relationship”. BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Volume 13, Number 1, pp. 395-418. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., F. Menezes and K. Tan (2012), “An Empirical Investigation of the Mergers Decision Process in Australia”. Economic Record, Volume 88, Number 283, pp. 459–475. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., X. Gong, and A. King (2012), “Partnered women’s labour supply and child care costs in Australia: measurement error and the child care price”. Economic Record, Volume 88, Special Issue, pp. 51-69. Link to working paper. Paper awarded Economic Record best paper prize.
Breunig, R. and F. Menezes (2012), “Testing Regulatory Consistency”. Contemporary Economic Policy, Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 60-74. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and R. McKibbin (2012), “Income pooling between Australian young adults and their parents”. Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Volume 26, Number 2, pp. 235-265. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. (2011), “Should single-equation dynamic gasoline demand models include moving average terms?”. Journal of Transportation Research, Part D, Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 474-477. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and R. McKibbin (2011), “The Effect of Survey Design on Household Reporting of Financial Difficulty”. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Volume 174, part 4, pp. 991-1005. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., X. Gong, J. Mercante, A. Weiss, and C. Yamauchi (2010), “Child Care Availability, Quality and Affordability: Are Local Problems Related to Labour Supply?”. Economic Record, Volume 87, Number 276, March, pp. 483-507. Link to working paper. “Wave-by-wave versions of Tables A1 and A2 (PDF,30KB)”. “Wave-by-wave samples: descriptive statistics (PDF,88KB)”. “Robustness to other geographical aggregates: Tables 7 and 8 (PDF,80KB)”.
Breunig, R. and J. Merchant (2010), “The accuracy of predicted wages of the non-employed and implications for policy simulations from structural labour supply models”. Economic Record, Volume 86, Number 272, March, pp. 49-70. Link to working paper.
Baron, J., R. Breunig, D. Cobb-Clark, T. Gorgens and A. Sartbayeva (2009), “Does the Effect of Incentive Payments on Survey Response Rates Differ by Income Support History?”. Journal of Official Statistics, Volume 25, Number 4, pp. 483-507. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Breunig, R. and C. Gisz (2009), “An exploration of Australian petrol demand: unobservable habits, irreversibility, and some updated estimates”. Economic Record, Volume 85, Number 268, pp. 73-91. Link to working paper. Data (XLS,179KB) (Excel file). Stata .do files (ZIP,4KB). Stata .dta files (ZIP,15KB).
Breunig, R. and Y. Rocaboy (2008), “Per-capita public expenditures and population size: A non-parametric analysis using French data”. Public Choice, Volume 136, Number 3, pp. 429-445. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. (2008), “Nonparametric Density Estimation for Stratified Samples”. Statistics and Probability Letters, Volume 78, pp. 2194-2200. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., D. Cobb-Clark and X. Gong (2008), “Improving the Modeling of Couples’ Labour Supply”. Economic Record, Volume 84, Number 267, pp. 466-485. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Breunig, R. and F. Menezes (2008), “Empirical Approaches for Identifying Maverick Firms: An Application to Mortgage Providers in Australia”. Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Volume 4, Number 3, pp. 811-836.
Breunig, R. and M. Wong (2008), “A Richer Understanding of Australia’s Productivity Performance in the 1990s: Improved Estimates Based Upon Firm-level Panel Data”. Economic Record, Volume 84, Number 265, pp. 157-176. Link to ANU discussion paper.
Breunig, R. D. Cobb-Clark, X. Gong, and D. Venn (2007), “Disagreement in Partners’ Reports of Financial Difficulty”. Review of Economics of the Household, Volume 5, Number 1, pp. 59-82. Link to working paper. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Breunig, R. D. Cobb-Clark and C. Ryan (2006), “A couples-based approach to the problem of workless families (PDF,223KB),” Economic Record, Volume 82, Number 259, pp. 428-444. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Breunig, R., S. Stacey, J. Hornby and F. Menezes (2006), “Price Regulation in Australia: How consistent has it been?”. Economic Record, Volume 82, Number 256, pp. 67-76. Link to working paper. Stata .do file (DO,11KB) Read the instructions in the comment lines to reproduce the results in the paper. Data (TXT,18KB) This is a text version of the data to use in conjunction with the Stata program.
Breunig, R. and I. Dasgupta (2005), “Do Intra-household Effects Generate the Food Stamp Cash-Out Puzzle?”. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 87, Number 3, pp. 552-568. Data and STATA .do files for Breunig and Dasgupta, AJAE (2005) (PDF,279KB).
Breunig, R. and A. Pagan, (2004), “Do Markov-Switching Models Capture Non-linearities in the Data? Tests Using Non-parametric Methods”. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Volume 64, pp. 401-407. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., S. Najarian, and A. Pagan (2003), “Specification Testing of Markov-Switching Models”. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 65, pp. 703-725. Link to working paper. Gauss procedures for Markov Switching specification tests (ZIP,159KB).
Breunig, R. and I. Dasgupta (2003), “Are People Ashamed of Paying with Food Stamps?”. Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 54, Number 2, pp. 203-225. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., D. Cobb-Clark, Y. Dunlop and M. Terrill (2003), “Assisting the Long-term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial”. Economic Record, Volume 79, Number 244, pp. 84-102. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Breunig, R. and I. Dasgupta (2002), “A Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation of the Functional Forms Used to Estimate the Food Expenditure Equation of Food Stamp Recipients: Comment”. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 84, Number 4, pp. 1156-1160. Link to working paper. Rejoiner to Levedahl. Cashout Data, and results. (ZIP, 161KB).
Breunig, R. (2001), “Kernel density estimation for clustered data”. Econometric Reviews, Volume 20, Number 3, pp. 353-367. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. (2001), “An Almost Unbiased Estimator of the Coefficient of Variation”. Economics Letters, Volume 70, Number 1, pp. 15-19. Link to working paper. Proof of two main propositions. (PDF,69KB).
Breunig, R., O. Lieberman and A. Ullah (1997), “On the Bias of the Standard Errors of the LS Residual and the Regression Coefficients Under Normal and Non-Normal Errors”. Econometric Theory Problems and Solutions, Volume 13, December, pp. 896-7.
Breunig, R. and A. Ullah (1996), “On the Bias of the Standard Errors of the LS Residual and the Regression Coefficients Under Normal and Non-Normal Errors”. Econometric Theory Problems and Solutions, Volume 12, December, pp. 868.
Other Refereed Journal Publications
Vanek, S. and R. Breunig (2024) “The Biosecurity Protection Levy: Principles for design”. Farm Policy Journal, Volume 21, Number 2, pp. 22-28. Link to policy brief.
Orzechowska-Fischer, E., E. Rose and R. Breunig (2024) “Australian households and the affordability of Telecommunications”. Australian Economic Review, Volume 57, Issue 4, pp. 319-350. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and T. Sainsbury (2023), “Too much of a good thing? Australian cash transfer replacement rates during the pandemic”. Australian Economic Review, Volume 56, Issue 1, pp. 70–90. Link to working paper.
Hathorne, C. and R. Breunig (2022), “Occupational Mobility in the ALife data: how reliable are occupational patterns from administrative Australian tax records?”. Economic Papers, Volume 41, Issue 4, pp. 297–324. Link to working paper.
Boucher, A., R. Breunig and C. Karmel (2022), “A preliminary literature review on the effect of immigration upon Australian domestic employment and wages”. Australian Economic Review, Volume 55, Number 2, pp. 263-272. Link to working paper.
Hasan, S. and R. Breunig (2021), “Article length and citation outcomes”. Scientometrics, Volume 126, Number 9, pp. 7583–7608. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Agarwal, A., S. Arfin, R. Breunig, S. Weldeegzie and T. Zhang (2021), “Nationalism and Economic Openness: The cross-country evidence”. Asia Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 8, Number 3, pp. 420-434. Link to working paper.
Sainsbury, T. and R. Breunig (2020), “Tax Planning in Australia’s Income Tax System”. Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Volume 28, Issue 1, pp. 59-83. Link to working paper.
Sainsbury, T. and R. Breunig (2020), “The urgent need for Tax Reform in Australia in the COVID-19 World”. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Volume 23, Number 2, pp. 79–97. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., D. Hourani, S. Bakhtiari and E. Magnani (2020), “Do Financial Constraints Affect the Composition of Workers in a Firm?”. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 79-97. Link to IZA discussion paper.
Biddle, N., R. Breunig, F. Markham and C. Wokker (2019), “Introducing the longitudinal MADIP and its role in understanding income dynamics in Australia”. Australian Economic Review, Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 476-495. Link to working paper.
Fabian, M. and R. Breunig (2019), “Long work hours and job satisfaction: do over-workers get trapped in bad jobs?”. Social Science Quarterly, Volume 100, Number 5, pp. 1932–1956. Link to working paper.
Barbalet, F., J. Greenville, W. Crook, P. Gratton and R. Breunig, R. (2015), “Exploring the links between bilateral and regional trade agreements and merchandise trade”. Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 2, Number 3, pp. 467-484. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., X. Gong and G. Leslie (2015), “The dynamics of satisfaction with working hours in Australia: the usefulness of panel data in evaluating the case for policy intervention” Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 2, Number 1, pp. 130-154. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and S. Rospabe (2013), “The male-female wage gap in France: differences across the wage distribution”. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Volume 16, Number 1, pp. 155-199. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and M. Wong (2007), “The Role of Firm Dynamics in Australia’s Productivity Growth”. Australian Economic Review, Volume 40, Number 1, pp. 90-96. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and D. Cobb-Clark, (2006), “Understanding the Factors Associated with Financial Stress in Australian Households”. Australian Social Policy 2005, pp 13-64. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and A. Stegman, (2005), “Testing for Regime Switching in Singaporean Business Cycles”. Singapore Economic Review, Volume 50, Number 1, pp. 25-34. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. (2002), “Bias correction for inequality measures: an application to China and Kenya”. Applied Economics Letters, Number 9, pp. 783-786. Link to working paper.
Other Publications
Sobeck, K., R. Breunig and A. Evans (2022), “Corporate income taxation in Australia: Theory, current practice and future policy directions”. Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (TTPI) Policy Report No. 01-2022, Canberra, Australia. Link to report.
Parham, D. and R. Breunig (2021), Asian Productivity Organization (APO) Productivity Readiness 2020. Asian Productivity Organization. Link to report.
Podger, A. and R. Breunig (2021), “Completing Australia’s Retirement Income System”. Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (TTPI), Canberra, Australia. Link to working paper.
Biddle, N., R. Breunig and D. Marasinghe (2021), “Attitudes towards and experiences of retirement and social security income during the COVID-recession and initial recovery”. ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods working paper. 4 May 2021. Link to working paper.
Varela, P., R. Breunig and K. Sobeck (2020), “The Taxation of Savings in Australia: Theory, current practice and future directions”. Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (TTPI) Policy Report No. 01- 2020, Canberra, Australia. Link to policy report.
Gong, X., R. Breunig and A. King (2010), “New estimates of the relationship between female labour supply and the cost, availability, and quality of child care”. Economic Roundup, Issue 1. Canberra, Australia: Australian Government Printing Service (AGPS). Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., D. Cobb-Clark, T. Gorgens, C. Ryan and A. Sartbayeva (2009), “User’s Guide to the Youth in Focus Data, Version 2.0” Youth in Focus Project". Discussion Paper Series, No. 8, December. ISBN 1835-4025. Link to technical paper.
Breunig, R., D. Cobb-Clark, T. Gorgens and A. Sartbayeva (2007), “User’s Guide to the Youth in Focus Data, Version 1.0”, Youth in Focus Project. Discussion Paper Series, No. 1, September. ISBN 1835-4025. Link to technical paper.
Books
Fabian, M. and R. Breunig (2018), Hybrid Policy Innovations in Comparative Perspective: Contemporary Advances in Theory and Practice. New York, NY: Routledge. Book ordering information.
Refereed book chapters
Podger, A., R. Breunig and J. Piggott (2023), “Retirement incomes: Increasing Inequity, Not Costs, across Generations is the Intergenerational Problem” in More Than Fiscal: The Intergenerational Report, Sustainability and Public Policy in Australia, edited by Podger, A., J. Hall and M. Woods. Chapter 5, pages 77–97. Canberra, Australia: ANU Press.
Breunig, R. and T. Hutchinson, (2008), “Small sample corrections for inequality indices” in W. Toggins, ed., New Econometric Modeling Research, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, chapter 2, pp 61-83. Book ordering information.
Breunig, R. and M-H. Wong (2005), “Estimation of total factor productivity” in Quantitative Tools for Microeconomic Policy Analysis, Canberra: Productivity Commission, pp. 195-214. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R., I. Dasgupta, C. Gundersen and P. Pattanaik (2001), “Explaining the Food Stamp Cash-out Puzzle”. Washington DC: United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Food Assistance and Nutrition Report Number 12. 30 pages. Link to working paper.
Breunig, R. and A. Ullah (1998), “Econometric Analysis in Complex Surveys” in Giles, D. and A. Ullah, eds, Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics, New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 325-364. Link to chapter.
Breunig, R., C. Chiu, and R. Russell (1998), “Aggregation and Econometric Analysis of Demand and Supply” in Giles, D. and A. Ullah, eds, Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics, New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 177-236.