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CONSISTENT TESTS FOR STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE
- G. Barrett, S. Donald
- Mathematics
- 2003
Methods are proposed for testing stochastic dominance of any pre--specified order, with primary interest in the distributions of income. We consider consistent tests, that are similar to… Expand
The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Earnings
- G. Barrett
- Economics
- 1 March 2002
The effect of alcohol consumption on the earnings of full-time male workers is analysed using the Australian National Health Survey 1989-90. A multinomial logit choice model is used to explain… Expand
Statistical Inference with Generalized Gini Indices of Inequality, Poverty, and Welfare
- G. Barrett, S. Donald
- Mathematics
- 1 January 2009
This article considers statistical inference for consistent estimators of generalized Gini indices of inequality, poverty, and welfare. Our method does not require grouping the population into a… Expand
Adverse Selection and the Decline in Private Health Insurance Coverage in Australia: 1989-95
- G. Barrett, R. Conlon
- Business
- 1 September 2003
The decline in private health insurance coverage over the period 1989–95 is analysed using the ABS National Health Surveys. Individuals’ health status and health risk behaviours are found to be… Expand
Dietary exposures to nitrate in the UK.
- G. Ysart, P. Miller, G. Barrett, D. Farrington, P. Lawrance, N. Harrison
- Medicine
- Food additives and contaminants
- 1 December 1999
Dietary exposures to nitrate have been estimated for two different groups of UK consumers. The daily dietary exposure of the general population was estimated from the UK 1997 Total Diet study to be… Expand
The Impact of Age Pension Eligibility Age on Retirement and Program Dependence: Evidence from an Australian Experiment
- Kadir Atalay, G. Barrett
- Economics
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- 2 March 2015
Governments around the world are reforming their social security systems in light of the challenges posed by population aging. We study the 1993 Australian Age Pension reform, which progressively… Expand
Consumption and Income Inequality in Australia
- G. Barrett, Thomas F. Crossley, C. Worswick
- Economics
- 1 June 2000
It has been argued that consumption is a more appropriate measure of household wellbeing than income or earnings. Using four Household Expenditures Surveys collected by the Australian Bureau of… Expand
The causal effect of retirement on health: New evidence from Australian pension reform
- Kadir Atalay, G. Barrett
- Economics
- 1 December 2014
The causal effect of retirement on health is studied using the Australian 1993 Age Pension reform to isolate exogenous variation in retirement status. Using instrumental variable methods we find that… Expand
The Dynamics of Participation in the Sole Parent Pension
- G. Barrett
- Economics
- 1 March 2002
The length of time families spent on the Sole Parent Pension (SPP) is analysed using the FaCS Longitudinal Data Set covering the period from June 1995 to June 1999. It is found that lone mothers,… Expand
Microeconometrics Using Stata, by A. Colin Cameron and Pravin K. Trivedi (Stata Press, College Station, Texas, USA, 2009), pp. xl + 692.
- G. Barrett
- Sociology
- 1 December 2012
The article reviews the book "Microeconometrics Using Stata," by A. Colin Cameron and Pravin K. Trivedi.