Prof Michael Shields - Researcher Profile

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Address

Centre for Health Economics
Monash University, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 58449

Email: Michael.Shields@monash.edu


Biography

Michael Shields is a professor at the Centre for Health Economics.

Michael joined Monash University in 2011.

His research is in the areas of applied health, labour and public economics. He has worked on a range of topics including life satisfaction, child health and development, mental illness, substance abuse, measuring health status, intra-household allocation, labour market discrimination, nursing labour markets and immigration.

He has a particular interest in the socio-economic determinants and dynamics of health and happiness. His research has been published in leading international journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, the American Economic Journal: Applied, the Economic Journal, and Demography.

He is vice-president of the Australian Heath Economics Society, a member of the editorial boards of Health Economics and the Economic Record, and is joint organiser of two annual workshops on the economics and econometrics of health. He is currently working on a number of Australian Research Council funded projects.

Keywords

Health Economics, Labour Economics, Economics of Happiness, Applied Econometrics

Qualifications

PHD(ECONOMICS)
Institution: University of Leicester
Year awarded: 2009

Publications

Journal Articles

Nicholls, M.E.R., Johnston, D., Shields, M.A., 2012, Adverse birth factors predict cognitive ability, but not hand preference, Neuropsychology [P], vol 26, issue 5, American Psychological Association, Washington DC USA, pp. 578-587.

Frijters, P., Johnston, D., Shields, M.A., 2012, The Optimality of tax transfers: What does life satisfaction data tell us?, Journal of Happiness Studies [P], vol 13, issue 5, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 821-832.

Fritjers, P., Johnston, D., Shields, M., 2011, Life satisfaction dynamics with quarterly life event data, Scandinavian Journal Of Economics [P], vol 113, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 190-211.

Fritjers, P., Shields, M., Price, S., Williams, J., 2011, Quantifying the cost of passive smoking on child health: Evidence from children's cotinine samples, Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics In Society [P], vol 174, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 195-212.

Fritjers, P., Haisken-Denew, J., Shields, M., 2011, The increasingly mixed proportional hazard model: An application to socioeconomic status, health shocks, and mortality, Journal Of Business & Economic Statistics [P], vol 29, issue 2, American Statistical Association, United States, pp. 271-281.

Frijters, P., Hatton, T.J., Martin, R.M., Shields, M.A., 2010, Childhood economic conditions and length of life: Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr cohort, 1937 - 2005, Journal of Health Economics [P], vol 29, issue 1, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 39-47.

Johnston, D.W., Propper, C., Shields, M., 2009, Comparing subjective and objective measures of health: Evidence from hypertension for the income/health gradient, Journal of Health Economics [P], vol 28, issue 3, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 540-552.

Frijters, P., Greenwell, H., Haisken-Denew, J.P., Shields, M.A., 2009, How well do individuals predict their future life satisfaction? Evidence from panel data following a nationwide exogenous shock, Canadian Journal of Economics [P], vol 42, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, Hoboken USA, pp. 1326-1346.

Shields, M.A., Price, S.W., Wooden, M., 2009, Life satisfaction and the economic and social characteristics of neighbourhoods, Journal Of Population Economics [P], vol 22, issue 2, Springer, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 421-443.

Johnston, D.W., Nicholls, M., Shah, M., Shields, M., 2009, Nature's experiment? Handedness and early childhood development, Demography [P], vol 46, issue 2, Springer New York LLC, United States, pp. 281-301.

Carroll, N., Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., 2009, Quantifying the costs of drought: New evidence from life satisfaction data, Journal Of Population Economics [P], vol 22, issue 2, Springer, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 445-461.

Fritjers, P., Johnston, D., Shah, M., Shields, M., 2009, To Work or Not to Work? Child Development and Maternal Labor Supply, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics [P], vol 1, issue 3, American Economic Association, United States, pp. 97-110.

Clark, A.E., Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., 2008, Relative income, happiness, and utility: An explanation for the Easterlin paradox and other puzzles, Journal of Economic Literature [P], vol 46, issue 1, American Economic Association, Nashville USA, pp. 95-144.

Currie, A., Shields, M.A., Price, S.W., 2008, The child health/family income gradient: Evidence from England, Journal of Health Economics [P], vol 26, issue 2, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 213-232.

Farrell, L., Shields, M.A., 2007, Children as consumers: Investigating child diary expenditure data, Canadian Journal of Economics [P], vol 40, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, Hoboken USA, pp. 445-467.

Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., Price, S.W., 2007, Investigating the quitting decision of nurses: Panel data evidence from the British National Health Service, Health Economics [P], vol 16, issue 1, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, West Sussex UK, pp. 57-73.

Frijters, P., Geishecker, I., Haisken-Denew, J.P., Shields, M.A., 2006, Can the large swings in Russian life satisfaction be explained by ups and downs in real incomes?, Scandinavian Journal Of Economics [P], vol 108, issue 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 433-458.