Danusha Jayawardana

Our paper on ‘Children’s Time Allocation and the Socioeconomic Gap’ is now published in the European Economic Review! 📄✨ We find that shifting children's time from digital media 📺 to enrichment activities 📚 improves numeracy skills for low SES children. A short 🧵👇

Younger siblings also spend less time per day on 'enrichment activities', such as music practise or reading. @NicAuBlack @Danusha_Jay @MonashUni theconversation.com/our-study-show…

Is the iPad a younger-sibling thing? 🤔📱 Our new @ConversationEDU article digs into how birth order shapes kids’ daily time use. theconversation.com/our-study-show… via @ConversationEDU

📣📣Our online seminar series “Economics of Mental Health” starts in March this year with A/Prof Jonas Fooken of @MUCHE_Macquarie 📚Topic: Pharmacist workload, subjective and physiological stress, and the risk of unsafe practice 📅Date: 6th of March ⏰ Time: 12-1 pm AEDT 📷 Sign up here for the Zoom link: AHES Economics of Mental Health SIG - Seminar Series (rb.gy/y4hayz) #MentalHealth #EconTwitter

Learn to think about the health and aged care workforce through an economics lens. Join Profs Tony Scott & Bob Elliott in the heart of Melbourne for a 1-day short-course on Economics of the Health Workforce on 13 Feb. Register now: bit.ly/3OE4Y48

New WP! “Getting along or getting ahead? The domestic roots of status-seeking in international relations” By @ashaniamar @USydneyEcon @KathrynBaragwa @UniMelb ideas.repec.org/p/syd/wpaper/2… Comments welcome!

Just 3 weeks until our Feb 13 short course. Led by Profs Tony Scott & Bob Elliott, Economics of the Health Workforce will give professionals working in #humanservices & #healthpolicy the knowledge they need to build a better health workforce. Register: bit.ly/3OE4Y48

Congratulations to @CHE_Monash alumni Dr Jessica Arnup, Dr Giovanni van Empel & Dr Andrew Ireland! It was great to have you back for your graduation ceremony today to reflect on & celebrate your accomplishments.

Visit & work with us in one of the best cities in the world, #Melbourne. Our international visiting fellowship program is accepting applications from experienced international researchers & ECRs. Apply by 15 Jan: tinyurl.com/y25sfvzs

Our new short-course "Economics of the #HealthWorkforce" (13 Feb) will outline economic solutions to current/future shortages of health/aged care workers. Explore how healthcare labour markets can be better designed for the Australian population. Register: bit.ly/3OE4Y48

📢CALL FOR PAPERS: 14th Australasian Workshop on #Econometrics & #HealthEconomics 📅16-18 July 2025 📍@MonashMalaysia 📜≤14 papers will be accepted 👶Doctoral students/ECRs strongly encouraged to apply ✉️Submit by 20 Jan 2025: tinyurl.com/2ms8bu4n

New #CHEWorkingPaper: PERM (Parameter Estimation by Raw Moments) estimates how policies shape inequality by extending standard empirical tools to averages of polynomial transformations of the outcomes. Neat method for studying distributional effects! 🔎tinyurl.com/yfx7skku

Introducing Adam Akmal Dzulkipli (@itsadamakmal), who is on the #EconJobMarket from @CHE_Monash. Adam's research interests lie at the intersection of #HealthEconomics, #LabourEconomics, & the economics of #education. Learn more about Adam at his website: sites.google.com/view/adzulkipl…

So excited to share this just published work 📣 Using PISA data from 38 OECD countries over 18 years, we show that student’s aspirations (technically expectations) to attend university *decrease* during hard economic times

Would you return to work after a health crisis? Your education could be the deciding factor. While people’s health post-illness recovers similarly across education levels, their work is quite different tinyurl.com/ye9t2zkb #CHEResearchBites @terenceccheng @DennisJPetrie

This week in our November seminar series, we welcome Prof Jan van Ours (@erasmusuni) with a talk titled "High temperatures and workplace injuries". Join 13 Nov @ noon in-person or online: monash.edu/business/event…

Applications are now OPEN for our international visiting fellowship program! Calling experienced international researchers & all ECRs: come visit & work with us for 2-6 months in 2025. Apply here by 15 Jan: tinyurl.com/y25sfvzs

This November, @CHE_Monash are hosting a seminar series featuring our world-renowned staff & adjuncts. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research and network with experts in the field. Join on Weds, in-person or online. More info: tinyurl.com/3a42hhjc

How did the #BetterAccess Initiative change mental healthcare in Australia? Our new study finds it increased the psychology workforce, raised psychologists' incomes & led to more practices in regional areas. Read: tinyurl.com/w2dsb436 #MentalHealth #HealthPolicy #Medicare

Children from disadvantaged families experience worse academic and mental health outcomes. Swapping digital media to enrichment activities is likely to reduce inequalities in children’s outcomes: tinyurl.com/5bkwrdev #CHEresearchbites @NicAuBlack @Danusha_Jay