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A/PROF JENNY WILLIAMS



Contact Details

Organization: Economics
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/who/profile.cfm?sid=33
Work: 8344 7530
Fax: 8344 6899
Room: 405
Level: 04
Building: Economics And Commerce
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Health Economics, Determinants of Substance Use, Consequences of Substance Use, Child Health, Education, Crime, Labour Economics Australia, United States of America

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Netherlands Tilburg University Research
Canada McMaster University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Economics (Honours) The Australian National University 14-Mar-1990
Masters of Economics Rice University 15-May-1996
Doctor of Philosophy Rice University 14-May-1997

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Outstanding Lecturer B Award, Faculty of Economics and Commerce 01-Dec-2004
Scholarship Prime Minister and Cabinet 01-Nov-1988
Scholarship Rice University 01-Sep-1991
Other (Award) University of Illinois at Chicago 03-Sep-2001
Other (Award) Economic Society of Australia 24-Sep-2002
Prize Australian Economic Association Prize awarded for best paper in 2001 Economic Record 26-Sep-2002

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
Health and intergenerational poverty in a developing country Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
Up in Smoke: An Econometric Analysis of Labour Market, Health and Educational Consequences of Cannabis Use Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007

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 2009

Journal Articles

  • Why parents worry: Initiation into cannabis use by youth and their educational attainment


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Health Economics
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 132-142
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Special Issue editors' introduction: The Use of Econometrics in Informing Policy Makers
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Econometrics
    Volume: 145
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1 - 3
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  • Turning from Crime
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Econometrics
    Volume: 145
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 158 - 173
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Cannabis prices and dynamics of cannabis use
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Health Economics
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 578-596
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Why Parents Worry: Cannabis Use by Youth and Their Educational Attainment
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 36th Australian Conference of Economists
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference of Economists Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-48
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia
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Reports

  • Why Parents Worry: Initiation into Cannabis Use by Youth and Their Educational Attainment
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1013
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • An intertemporal model of rational criminal choice


    Year: 2006
    Book: Panel data econometrics Theoretical contributions and empirical applications
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • College students' use of cocaine


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Substance Use and Misuse
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 489 - 509
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  • Limits of Current Economic Analyses of the Demand for Illicit Drugs
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Substance Use and Misuse
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 607-609
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  • The impact of cannabis use on health
    Year: 2006
    Journal: De Economist
    Volume: 154
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 517 - 546
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Cannabis prices and dynamics of cannabis use
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 35th Australian Conference of Economists 2006: Economic Society of Australia
    Conference Publication: 35th Australian Conference of Economists 2006: Economic Society of Australia
    Page numbers: 1-42
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia
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Reports

  • Quantifying the cost of passive smoking on child health: evidence from children's cotinine samples
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 2219
    Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labour(Bonn)
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  • The impact of cannabis and cigarette use on health
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 969
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Are there differential effects of price and policy on college students' drinking intensity
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Contemporary Economic Policy
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 78-90
    Publisher: Oxford University Press
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  • Habit formation and college students' demand for alcohol
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Health Economics
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 119-134
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Is the relationship between socioeconomic status and health stronger for older children in developing countries
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian conference of economists 2005
    Conference Publication: Australian conference of economists
    Page numbers: 1-31
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Reports

  • Cannabis prices and dynamics of cannabis use
    Year: 2005
    Report No:: DP4991
    Publisher: Centre for Economic Policy Research(London)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Alcohol and marijuana use among college students: economic complements or substitutes
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Health Economics
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 825-843
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  • Economic relationship between alcohol and cannabis revisited
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Economic Record
    Volume: 80
    Issue: 248
    Page numbers: 36-48
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia(Burwood)
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  • Study habits and the level of alcohol use among college students
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Education Economics
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 135-149
    Publisher: Routledge
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  • The effects of price and policy on marijuana use: what can be learned from the Australian experience?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Health Economics
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 123-137
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Delinquency and gender
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Applied Economic Letters
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 425-429
    Publisher: Routledge
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  • Does alcohol consumption reduce human capital accumulation? Evidence from the College alcohol study
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Applied Economics
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1227-1239
    Publisher: Routledge(Hants)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • An Analysis of Crime as Work Model: Evidence from the 1958 Philadelphia Birth Cohort Study


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Human Resources
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 479-509
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Cannabis, Alcohol and Cigarettes: Substitutes for Complements
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Economic Record
    Volume: 77
    Issue: 266
    Page numbers: 19-34
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