Economic RecordPub Date : 2024-05-07DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12809
Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth
{"title":"Locus of Control, Social Capital and Transport Poverty†*","authors":"Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.12809","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-4932.12809","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transport poverty is a major public policy issue in many countries. However, evidence on the factors that influence transport poverty is relatively scant. We contribute to the debate on the factors that influence transport poverty by being the first to examine how locus of control (LoC) influences transport poverty. Using 15 waves of panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we find evidence to suggest that LoC influences transport poverty. Specifically, we find that being more internal on LoC is associated with a lower probability of being transport poor. This finding is robust to a suite of sensitivity and robustness checks, including different constructs of transport poverty, alternative measures of LoC, the use of an out-of-sample supplementary dataset and different estimation approaches. We find that social capital is an important factor that mediates the relationship between LoC and transport poverty.</p>","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"100 330","pages":"283-316"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-4932.12809","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140928730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2024-05-07DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12810
Simon Ville
{"title":"The Shortest History of Economics by Andrew Leigh (Black Inc., Collingwood, Vic., 2024), pp. vi+228","authors":"Simon Ville","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.12810","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-4932.12810","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"100 330","pages":"424-426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140928679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2024-05-02DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12808
Steven G. M. Schilizzi
{"title":"Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change, by Robert S. Pindyck (Oxford University Press, 2022), 230 pages + xvi front matter, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197647349.001.0001. ISBN (hardback): 9780197647349, ISBN (epub): 9780197647363.","authors":"Steven G. M. Schilizzi","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.12808","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-4932.12808","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"100 330","pages":"423-424"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140835762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12805
Opoku Adabor
{"title":"How Does Transport-Related Deprivation Reduce Hours of Work in Australia?1","authors":"Opoku Adabor","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.12805","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-4932.12805","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we examine the effect of transport-related deprivation on hours of work using 17 waves of longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia. We measure transport-related deprivation using indicators that reflect transport accessibility and affordability. The overall finding indicates that transport-related deprivation reduces hours of work. This outcome is more pronounced for public transport than private transport, and consistent across instrumental variable techniques, an alternative fixed effect model, and heterogeneity analysis. Further analysis reveals that the hours of work-reducing effect of transport-related deprivation is transmitted through time spent travelling to work.</p>","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"100 331","pages":"441-461"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-4932.12805","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140672910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12807
Anthony Scott
{"title":"Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation, by James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 183.","authors":"Anthony Scott","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.12807","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-4932.12807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"100 330","pages":"421-422"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140592011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12802
Cameron Gordon
{"title":"Structuralist and Behavioural Macroeconomics, by Peter Skott (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023), pp. xii+384","authors":"Cameron Gordon","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.12802","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-4932.12802","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"100 329","pages":"278-279"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140592097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12806
Ben Phillips
{"title":"Tax and Transfer Policy Using Behavioural Microsimulation Modelling: Design and Evaluation, by John Creedy and Penny Mok (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2022), pp. 236.","authors":"Ben Phillips","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.12806","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-4932.12806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"100 329","pages":"276-278"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140592093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12804
Aldi Aldi, Indraswati Tri Abdireviane
{"title":"Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide from America, by Simon S. C. Tay (Wiley, Singapore, 2010)","authors":"Aldi Aldi, Indraswati Tri Abdireviane","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.12804","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-4932.12804","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"100 330","pages":"419-421"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140592096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12803
Martine Mariotti
{"title":"Many Possible Worlds: An Interdisciplinary History of the World Economy since 1800, by Cameron Gordon (Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2023), Pp. 1033","authors":"Martine Mariotti","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.12803","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-4932.12803","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"100 330","pages":"418-419"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140592008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic RecordPub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12801
Firmin Doko Tchatoka, Qazi Haque
{"title":"Revisiting the Macroeconomic Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks*","authors":"Firmin Doko Tchatoka, Qazi Haque","doi":"10.1111/1475-4932.12801","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1475-4932.12801","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study re-evaluates the macroeconomic impact of monetary policy shocks in the United States using the proxy-SVAR approach of Gertler and Karadi (<i>American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics</i>, 2015, 7, 44–76). Despite increased credit costs and the presence of the credit channel, our analysis reveals modest effects on economic activity post-mid-1980s. This robust finding holds across various inference methods and sample considerations. A counterfactual analysis within the framework of Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999, <i>Handbook of Macroeconomics</i>, Elsevier) suggests that a stronger response to inflation in monetary policy execution may explain the subdued impact of shocks, offering valuable insights for policy refinement and understanding the dynamics of economic activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":47484,"journal":{"name":"Economic Record","volume":"100 329","pages":"234-259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1475-4932.12801","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140592018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}