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Email: b.bradbury@unsw.edu.au

Publication list and additional papers available for download

Research interests include the measurement of living standards, child poverty, income support and labour market policies, consumer equivalence scales, and geographic dimensions of social policies.

Current research projects include cross-national patterns of housing wealth in retirement, the socio-economic outcomes of young mothers, family dynamics, child poverty in Australia and other countries and trends in Australian inequality and poverty. List of current and recent projects

Commentary

Is Australian social protection ready for the great recession? (Club Troppo post)

Recent Presentations and Papers

Two papers on housing wealth and retirement: Bruce Bradbury (2008), Housing wealth as retirement saving: Does the Australian model lead to over-consumption of housing? and Yates, Judy and Bradbury, Bruce (2009), Home ownership as a (crumbling) fourth pillar of social insurance in Australia.

Two papers on young motherhood and socio-economic outcomes. Disadvantage among Australian Young Mothers in the Australian Journal of Labour Economics (abstract) and The impact of young motherhood on education, employment and marriage (SPRC Discussion Paper No. 148). See also the summary in the SPRC Newsletter.

Recent Books, Monographs and Journal Articles

Bradbury, Bruce (2008), "Time and the cost of children" Review of Income and Wealth, 54(3), September (Abstract). See also this earlier version and a related SPRC Discussion Paper.

Peter Saunders and Bruce Bradbury (2006), 'Monitoring trends in poverty and inequality: Data, methodology and measurement' The Economic Record 82(258, September): 341-364.

Bradbury, Bruce and Kate Norris (2005), "Income and Separation" Journal of Sociology 41(4):425-446 (Abstract) (Earlier conference paper version).

Bradbury, Bruce (2005), "Missing and perturbed data from the Australian Census", The Australian Economic Review, 38(1): 99-107
(Journal available at www.blackwell-synergy.com).

Bradbury, Bruce (2004) "Targeting Social Assistance" in Fiscal Studies 25(3):305-324. (Abstract).

Bradbury, Bruce (2004), "Consumption and the Within-Household Income Distribution: Outcomes from an Australian 'Natural Experiment" CESifo Economic Studies Vol 50 3/2004.

Bradbury, Bruce and Jenny Chalmers (2004), 'Location and Unemployment' The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 14(2):208-234.

Bradbury, Bruce (2003), "The Welfare Interpretation of Consumer Equivalence Scales" International Journal of Social Economics 30(7):770-787. (With permission of Emerald Journals).

Bradbury, Bruce (2003), Child Poverty: A Review Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services, Policy Research Paper No. 20.

Bradbury, Bruce; Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright (eds, 2001) The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries CUP. (publication details)

Bradbury, Bruce and Markus Jäntti (2001) “Child Poverty Across the Industrialised World: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study” in Vleminckx, K., Smeeding, T.M. (eds.) Child Well-being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern Nations, The Policy Press, Bristol.

Bradbury, Bruce (1997) ‘The Living Standards of the Low-Income Self-Employed’ Australian Economic Review 30(4):374-89.

Bradbury, Bruce (1997) ‘Measuring Poverty Changes with Bounded Equivalence Scales: Australia in the 1980s’ Economica 64:245-64.