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Associate Professor Evgenia Dechter

Associate Professor Evgenia Dechter

Associate Professor

Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2009
M.A.; B.A. in Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2003; 2000
 

Business School
School of Economics

Geni Dechter is an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. Her research interests are in the fields of labour economics and macroeconomics.

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/edechter/
E-mail
e.dechter@unsw.edu.au
Location
School of Economics UNSW Business School UNSW Sydney

Grants, Fellowships and Awards:
2019-2021, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), $371,000
2015-2017, CAF UNSW, ($20,000)
2013, ASB Lab Small Project Grant ($3000)
2010 – 2013, ASB Research Grants, UNSW: 2010-2011 ($25,000), 2012-2013 ($27,000)
2010 – 2013, ASB Conference Grants, UNSW
2003 – 2008, University of Rochester, Department of Economics Fellowship       
2006 – 2007, W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy Fellowship   
 

 

Research Interests: Labour economics; Macroeconomics; Economic of Education

 

Are Australians ready to break up with casual work?

Women, underemployment and gender inequality in the labour force

Babies got bucks: are more children really better for the economy?

Topic of contention: Casualisation of the workforce

Containing COVID-19: what really works (and what doesn’t)

 

My Research Supervision

PhD and Honours students