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Recent Research

• Top Incomes in Australia (with Tony Atkinson): original 2006 paper, new 2010 results
• Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China (with Cathy Gong and Xin Meng)
• Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations (with Alison Booth)
• Evidence-Based Policy: Summon the Randomistas?

Recent Op-Eds and Popular Writing

• Reasons to be Irrational
• At the Heart of Footy Fever
• Power Readers (plus full survey results)

Wryside Economics (MP3 audio files)

• Dieting
• Sin Taxes
• Sharemarket
• Leaders as Readers
• Gender and Competition
• Terrorism
• Gift Giving
• Child Care
• Happiness
• Nudging
• Fiscal Stimulus
• Size of Nations
• Complexity
• Randomised Policy Trials
• Prediction Markets
• Paying Politicians
• Schools Reform
• Age and Innovation

Inequality datasets

• Top income shares for 13 developed countries (paper, data)
• Indonesian top incomes 1920-2004 (paper, data)
• Male gini coefficients for Australia 1942-2001 (paper, data)
• Hourly wage inequality across US states 1977-2002 (paper, data)
• Household income inequality across US states 1963-2002 (paper, data)
• Andrew Clarkwest's household income inequality by race across US states 1970-2000 (paper, documentation, data)

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