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A/PROF BRUCE WYNDHAM HEADEY



Contact Details

Organization: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/people/bheadey/home.html
Work: +61 3 8344 2087
Fax: +61 3 8344 2111
Room: 627
Level: 06
Building: Alan Gilbert Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Welfare Reform Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Oxford
Master of Arts University of Wisconsin
Doctor of Philosophy University of Strathclyde

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND LABOUR DYNAMICS IN AUSTRALIA Chief Investigator FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES Department of Family and Community Services Developing Programs 01/01/2004

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
ASPECTS OF RETIREMENT FOR OLDER WOMEN Chief Investigator FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES 01/07/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

Reports

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Subjective Well-Being : Revisions to Dynamic Equilibrium Theory using National Panel Data and Panel Regression Methods


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Social Indicators Research
    Volume: 79
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 369-403
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Reports

  • Happiness ; revising set point theory and dynamic equilibrium theory to account for long term change


    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey -- Release 4.0
    Year: 2006
    Customer: Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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    URL - open access http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/data.html
  • Families, incomes and jobs: a statistical report of the HILLDA survey
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Jobless households: longitudinal analysis of the persistence and determinants of joblessness using HILDA data for 2001-03
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 11/06
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Life goals matter to happiness : revisions to set-point theory
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 1
    Publisher: German Institute for Economic Research(Berlin)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Economic wellbeing and subjective wellbeing: the effects of income and wealth
    Year: 2005
    Book: Rethinking Well-Being: Essays on Health, Disability and Disadvantage
    Publisher: API Network(Perth)
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  • Income, wealth and joblessness: insights from the HILDA survey
    Year: 2005
    Book: Sustaining Prosperity
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • Communities, social capital and public policy.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Policy Research Paper Series
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 1-73
    Publisher: Department of Family and Community Services(Canberra)
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  • Household wealth in Australia: its components, distribution and correlates
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Sociology
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 47-68
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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  • Money & happiness: the combined effects of wealth, income and consumption
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Schmollers Jahrbuch
    Volume: 125 (2005)
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 131-144
    Publisher: Duncker und Humblot GmbH
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  • The dynamics of income poverty in Australia: Evidence from the First Three Waves of the HILDA Survey
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Social Issues
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 541-552
    Publisher: Australia Council of Social Service(Sydney)
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  • The importance of wealth for subjective well-being
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Financial Transformation
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 59-67
    Publisher: Capco(San Francisco)
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  • The structure and distribution of wealth in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 159-175
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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Reports

  • A framework for assessing poverty,disadvantage and low capabilities
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Australian Economy and Society 2002: religion, morality and public policy in international perspective 1984-2002
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Federation Press(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • The effects of wealth and income on subjective well-beng and ill-being
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Economic Record
    Volume: 80
    Issue: September (Special Issue)
    Page numbers: S24-S33
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia(Burwood)
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  • Wealth matters more than income to happiness
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Social Monitor
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 49-50
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Who enjoys the fruits of growth?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Social Indicators Research
    Volume: 65
    Page numbers: 125-144
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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Reports

  • Money doesn't buy happiness ... or does it? A reconsideration based on the combined effects of wealth, income and consumption
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 15/04
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • The structure and distribution of household wealth in Australia
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 12/04
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Welfare capitalism: the ten year impact of governments on poverty, inequality and financial risk in West Germany, the Netherlands, and the USA
    Year: 2003
    Book: Combating poverty in Europe: the German welfare regime in practice
    Publisher: Ashgate(Aldershot)
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Journal Articles

  • German reunification: welfare gains and losses East and West
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Social Indicators Research
    Volume: 64
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 107-138
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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  • Pet ownership: good for health?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 179(9)
    Issue: Nov 2003
    Page numbers: 460-461
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Policy goals and outcomes in three worlds of welfare capitalism
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Schmollers Jahrbuch
    Volume: 123
    Issue: 1/2003
    Page numbers: 27-42
    Publisher: Duncker und Humblot GmbH
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Reports

  • Communities, social capital and public policy.
    Year: 2003
    Report No:: 26/03
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • The psychological impact of unemployment: the economic and social costs of unemployment.
    Year: 2002
    Book: The Price of Prosperity
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • Pet ownership is good for your health and saves public expenditure too: Australian and German longitudinal evidence.