The comparative wellbeing of the New Zealand Māori and Indigenous Australian
Lecture
Some researchers have argued that strong periods of economic growth and economic downturns have a greater impact on the economic position of the Indigenous population than the non-Indigenous population in settler societies such as Australia and New Zealand. The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-08…
Non-Parametric Spatial Bayesian Crime Regression
Lecture
Two significant methodological challenges confront policy makers and practitioners in using crime data. The first challenge is that the models underestimate the extent of crimes occurring within a geographical space and the second is that the models need fully reflect uncertainties in prediction…
Income trends for selected single parent families
Lecture
Government transfer payments make a major contribution to the incomes of many single parent families, increasingly single parents are active in the workforce and frequently pay income tax. This seminar will present joint research undertaken with Associate Professor Ben Phillips and considers the…
Assessing drought conditions in Australia: A self-report measure based on spike and slab lasso
Lecture
Dr Bakar will be presenting collaborative work being undertaken with Professor Matthew Gray, Dr Ben Edwards and Dr Boyd Hunter. The object is to better understand the perception of drought using a self-report measure from a survey conducted in 2007. We establish a relationship between climatic…
Using an ‘Intermediate Data Structure’ for Sharing and Analyzing Historical Life Course Data
Lecture
Life course data for historical studies of demographic behavior come from a wide range of sources. Even when fundamental aspects of the data are the same (births, deaths, marriages, kinship, co-residence), data have been stored in idiosyncratic formats that are difficult to share and re-…
PolicyMod: ANU's model of the Australian tax and transfer system
Lecture
Associate Professor Ben Phillips of the ANU Centre for Social Research and methods will be providing an introduction to ‘PolicyMod’ the recently developed ANU tax and transfer policy simulator. The presentation will detail the policies that are modelled and the underlying data and…
Work and Socio-economic differences in biomarkers of stress
Lecture
Professor Tarani Chandola, Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Manchester and Co-Director, National Centre for Research Methods, UK will give a seminar on the 19 April 2017. His expertise and current research is related to biosocial research methods, including work and stress-related…