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The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, serves as Australia’s pre-eminent economic and social policy research centre. For over 60 years our world-class economists have conducted rigorous, independent research and analysis, providing an evidence base for effective policy reform. We help to solve some of the most pressing and complex issues affecting ordinary Australians, striving to advance opportunity, equity and prosperity for our nation.

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DR Maxim Ananyev

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DR Melek Cigdem-Bayram

A/Prof Ferdi Botha

DR Barbara Broadway

Prof Lisa Cameron

DR Diana Contreras Suarez

DR Nichola Coombs

DR Sarah C Dahmann

MR Taylor Ey

MR Daniel Fischer

DR Ana Gamarra Rondinel

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MS Tanya Gupta

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Projects

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Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

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Talking in Timor-Leste: Urbanization, Peer Input, and Other Influences on Children's Verbal Environments

JR Coffey, V Baranov, X Hu, DC Suarez, L Cameron, A Cristia

Journal article | 2026 | Developmental Science

Children's early experiences with language are influenced by socioeconomic and cultural factors that vary greatly across societies..

Labour Market and Income Trajectories of Award‐Reliant Workers: Evidence From the HILDA Survey

Roger Wilkins

Journal article | 2026 | Australian Economic Review

ABSTRACT An important group of interest for industrial tribunals in Australia is employees who are reliant on aw..

Leveraging women's views to influence gendered attitudes to women working: Evidence from an online intervention in Indonesia

L Cameron, D Contreras Suárez, D Setyonaluri

Report | 2026 | Journal of Development Economics

How to influence gendered attitudes that limit women's participation in employment is not well understood. We provide randomly sel..

Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research

A Brodeur, D Mikola, N Cook, L Fiala, T Brailey, R Briggs, A de Gendre, Y Dupraz, J Gabani, R Gauriot, J Haddad, G Lima, J Ankel-Peters, A Dreber, D Campbell, L Kattan, D Marino Fages, F Mierisch, P Sun, T Wright, et al.

Journal article | 2026 | Nature

Science aspires to be cumulative. Reproducibility efforts strengthen science by testing the reliability of published findings, pro..

Intravenous versus subcutaneous immunoglobulin in patients with haematological malignancies: time-driven activity-based costing

SC de Albornoz, H Haysom, A Mo, J Guglielmino, T Dunstan, K Rushford, A Ellison, K Saxby, D Andrew, A Jesurajah, P Banahene, E Hu, LS Hoo, D Petrie, EM Wood, AM Higgins, ZK McQuilten

Journal article | 2026 | Supportive Care in Cancer

Purpose: Prophylactic immunoglobulin (Ig) is used to prevent infections in patients with hypogammaglobulinaemia due to haematologi..

The Causal Effect of Pet Ownership on Health and Well-being

M Ananyev, F Botha, N Lamberova, K Peyton

Journal article | 2026 | Applied Research in Quality of Life

Despite a large strand of literature investigating how pet ownership is associated with different health and well-being outcomes, ..

Medication Use by Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians After a Pharmaceutical Co-Payment Subsidy

K Saxby, R Liang, K Hall, M Stephens, Y Zhang, AN Trivedi

Journal article | 2026 | JAMA Health Forum

This cohort study examines prescription medication use and out-of-pocket spending among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians ..

Comparison of HILDA Survey Estimates With the 2006–2021 Censuses

N Watson, T Ey

Journal article | 2026 | Australian Economic Review

Open access

Issue: The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey has provided researchers and policymakers with invalu..

Specialist Affordability and Access for People With Disability

J Taylor, K Saxby, J Bailie, S Badji, G Aydin, R Liang, D Petrie

Journal article | 2026 | Australian Economic Review

Introduction: Equitable access to care is a core principle of Medicare and Australia's broader health policy frameworks, yet acces..

Price Transparency in Specialist Markets

SJ Méndez, J Yong, A Scott, KH Prang, AG Elshaug

Journal article | 2026 | Australian Economic Review

The market for non-GP specialist services in Australia is characterised by widely dispersed fees and out- of- pocket costs, creati..

News

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Displaying 10 news articles from 183 for the research group.

What does disadvantage look like in Australia? New research shows who’s struggling most

Peter Whiteford, Jenny Gordon, Roger Wilkins

The Australian government just released the 2026 report of the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee. The committee was asked to explore ..

April 24, 2026

conversation Article

Soaring petrol prices are hurting more than your wallet

Kushneel Prakash

It’s time to put Australia’s car dependency in reverse The key message is simple: rising fuel prices don’t just strain budgets, they make l..

April 2, 2026

pursuit Article

How Indigenous business enterprise is rewriting Australian economics

Cain Polidano, Michelle Evans, Sarah Dahmann, Admiral Manganda, Yashu Kalera, Julie Moschion, Miguel Ruiz, Brooke Murray-Noble

In contemporary Australia, jobs are a vital socio-economic vehicle. Having a job brings benefits to people and their families beyond the si..

February 26, 2026

pursuit Article

How to make specialists’ fees fair? It’ll take more than a revamped website

Yuting Zhang, Charles Kemp, Stephen Duckett

Consumers will soon have a clearer picture of how specialists’ fees compare if legislation before parliament is passed. New legislation w..

February 18, 2026

conversation Article

Funding surgery and hormones for trans people can save Medicare millions: new research

Karinna Saxby, Brendan Nolan, Clue Coman, Dennis Petrie

Transgender and gender-diverse (“trans”) people have worse mental health compared to the general population. As a result, they’re more like..

February 10, 2026

conversation Article

No control, no regulation. Why private specialist fees can leave patients with huge medical bills

Yuting Zhang

Seeing a private specialist increasingly comes with massive gap payments. On average, out-of-pocket fees to see a specialist amount to abou..

December 14, 2025

conversation Article

What’s working from home doing to your mental health? We tracked 16,000 Australians to find out

Jan Kabatek, Ferdi Botha

Working from home has become a fixture of Australian work culture, but its effect on mental health is still widely debated. Can working ..

December 2, 2025

conversation Article

When a partner has a health shock, our study shows what happens to work, chores and fun

Yuting Zhang, Federico Zilio

A serious illness or injury to a family member is more than a medical crisis. It’s a health shock that triggers a ripple effect, forcing fa..

September 28, 2025

conversation Article

Fewer friends, more time stress: the essential charts from this year’s HILDA survey

Inga Lass, Ferdi Botha, Kyle Peyton, Roger Wilkins

Every year, one of Australia’s biggest longitudinal surveys provides a range of insights on how the nation is changing. The Household, I..

September 18, 2025

conversation Article

Australians are in more pain – and our new data shows it’s not just due to ageing

Ferdi Botha

The degree of bodily pain reported by Australians has grown over the last two decades, and this increase cannot be attributed only to an ag..

September 18, 2025

conversation Article

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Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research is an academic department in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne dedicated entirely to research.

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Researchers

Projects

How Australian Fathers Shape the Trajectory of Their Children's Wellbeing

Quantifying the Economic Causes and Costs of Family and Domestic Violence

Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility: Measuring What Matters and Why

Mobilise Matched Evaluation

Community Attitudes and Mental Health Inequalities in Priority Populations

Retail Investor Outcomes in Spot Crypto Markets

Westpac - Melbourne Institute Economic Indicators

2026 Research Impetus Grants

Computer Vision Application - Mark Stevenson

ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families Over the Life Course

Scholarly Works

Talking in Timor-Leste: Urbanization, Peer Input, and Other Influences on Children's Verbal Environments

Labour Market and Income Trajectories of Award‐Reliant Workers: Evidence From the HILDA Survey

Leveraging women's views to influence gendered attitudes to women working: Evidence from an online intervention in Indonesia

Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research

Intravenous versus subcutaneous immunoglobulin in patients with haematological malignancies: time-driven activity-based costing

The Causal Effect of Pet Ownership on Health and Well-being

Medication Use by Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians After a Pharmaceutical Co-Payment Subsidy

Comparison of HILDA Survey Estimates With the 2006–2021 Censuses

Specialist Affordability and Access for People With Disability

Price Transparency in Specialist Markets

News

What does disadvantage look like in Australia? New research shows who’s struggling most

Soaring petrol prices are hurting more than your wallet

How Indigenous business enterprise is rewriting Australian economics

How to make specialists’ fees fair? It’ll take more than a revamped website

Funding surgery and hormones for trans people can save Medicare millions: new research

No control, no regulation. Why private specialist fees can leave patients with huge medical bills

What’s working from home doing to your mental health? We tracked 16,000 Australians to find out

When a partner has a health shock, our study shows what happens to work, chores and fun

Fewer friends, more time stress: the essential charts from this year’s HILDA survey

Australians are in more pain – and our new data shows it’s not just due to ageing

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