Kushneel Prakash

“Smoking your child's job away”: Parental smoking during one's childhood and the probability of being employed in adulthood

K Prakash, S Kumar

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Business Research

We examine the relationship between parental smoking in childhood and the probability of being employed in adulthood. To do so, we..

Energy poverty and obesity

K Prakash, ME Munyanyi

Journal article  |  2021  |  Energy Economics

Obesity is a major health concern in both developed and developing nations. Yet, evidence on the determinants of obesity is relati..

Locus of control and the gender gap in mental health

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Musharavati Ephraim Munyanyi, Kushneel Prakash, Russell Smyth

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

We examine whether gender differences in locus of control (LoC) explain gender gaps in mental health using longitudinal data from ..

Petrol prices and subjective wellbeing

Kushneel Prakash, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth

Journal article  |  2020  |  ENERGY ECONOMICS

We examine the effect of petrol prices on subjective wellbeing (SWB) using household panel data. To do so, we use 17 waves of the ..

Housing wealth and happiness in Urban China

Zhiming Cheng, Kushneel Prakash, Russell Smyth, Haining Wang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cities

China has experienced rapid growth in inequality in housing wealth. We examine how housing wealth and housing wealth inequality ar..

'The quintessential Chinese dream'? Homeownership and the subjective wellbeing of China's next generation

Kushneel Prakash, Russell Smyth

Journal article  |  2019  |  China Economic Review (Amsterdam)

Owning one's own home is an important objective for many people and homeownership potentially has important economic and social im..

Is the Dutch disease effect valid in relation to remittances and the real exchange rate in Fiji?

Kushneel Avneet Prakash, Anjani Mala

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF THE ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMY

In recent years, increased economic integration and enhanced labor mobility has led to an increasing flow of remittances across th..

Does devaluation improve trade balance in small island economies? The case of Fiji

Kushneel Prakash, Dibyendu Maiti

Journal article  |  2016  |  ECONOMIC MODELLING

A number of countries, mostly small and island economies manage fixed exchange and often devalue it as a stabilisation strategy. T..

The Debt Experience of SIDS in the Pacific

Biman Prasad, Kushneel Prakash

Book Chapter  |  2014