Post Doctoral Fellow
Phone: (07)
3138
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Fax: (07) 3138 1500
E-mail: dwjohnston@qut.edu.au
Room: Z836a, Level 8, Z Block, GP
Career Summary
David joined the School of Economics and Finance in January 2009. Prior to this appointment he held a year-long research fellow position in the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne. He completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Melbourne in 2007.
Research Interests
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Microeconometrics, health economics, labour economics.
Publications
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P Frijters, DW Johnston, M Shah & MA Shields (2009). “Life Satisfaction Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data”, with P Frijters & M Shields. Forthcoming. Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
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DW Johnston, C Propper & MA Shields (2009). “Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient”. Journal of Health Economics 28: 540-522.
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DW Johnston, M Nicholls, M Shah & MA Shields (2009). “Nature's Experiment? Handedness and Early Childhood Development”. Demography 46: 281-301.
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P Frijters, DW Johnston, M Shah & MA Shields (2009). “To Work or Not to Work? Child Development and Maternal Labour Supply”. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1: 97-110.
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DW Johnston & W Lee (2009). “Retiring to the Good Life? The Short-Term Effects of Retirement on Health”. Economics Letters 103:8-11.