Russell Smyth
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 267041 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Russell Smyth |
| NOMBRES | Russell |
| APELLIDO | Smyth |
| FIRMA | SMYTH R |
| AFILIACIONES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6593-5462 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 112 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 615 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Ideology and Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia
Does judicial ideology affect the process of agenda‐setting in the High Court of Australia? Applications for “special leave” to appeal are the primary method through which the High Court manages its caseload, analogous to certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court. Acceptance rates are low (10%–15%) and the consequences of rejection for litigants are high, since the Court rules as the final court of appeal in all areas of Australian law, including cons…
Microcredit Participation and Fertility
Bangladesh has experienced a significant decline in fertility in recent decades. At the same time, the country has witnessed a rapid increase in microcredit coverage. This article examines the role of microcredit in fertility decline in Bangladesh. It uses a large household-level panel dataset for the period 1997–2005 designed specifically to evaluate microcredit programmes across Bangladesh. Using a difference-in-differences framework combined w…
Lower Court Disagreements as Cues for Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia
We extend cue theory to examine why and how dissent on the court below acts as a cue to apex courts in selecting the cases they hear. We posit that dissent on the court below is a cue to the apex court that the case involves complex legal issues. To test our predictions about how dissent on the court below affects the selection of cases and factors mediating and moderating this relationship, we use original data on 8,405 special leave application…
Cycles of adversity
This study examines the causal relationship between exposure to father's joblessness during childhood and adolescence and experiencing energy poverty in adulthood using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. To address concerns that father's joblessness is endogenous, we employ the interaction between the average number of recessions that occurred in the period before the individual was age 14 and materna…
The looks and likes of a political winner
A financial disaster in the making
Research on climate change and its effects has seen a surge in interest as global temperatures continue to rise. A related body of literature focuses on the impact of weather on financial decisions. However, there is very little evidence on the channels through which temperature shocks affect savings. This is a significant shortcoming in the existing literature given the growing tendency among policymakers to use savings as an indicator of financ…
Estimating the relationship between ethnic inequality, conflict and voter turnout in Africa using geocoded data
To what extent is voter turnout influenced by ethnic inequality? We combine ethnolinguistic maps on sub-national locations of ethnic groups with night-time light satellite images to construct a dataset of ethnic inequality across sub-national locations in 24 African countries. Using election data from the constituency-level elections archive, we show that ethnic inequality is negatively associated with voter turnout. This relationship holds even …
Competence in the Eye of the Electorate
Prior studies have documented incumbency advantage for electoral candidates. A largely unrelated strand of literature has shown that perceived competence of candidates, as inferred from their physical appearance, also predicts their electoral success. We draw upon the framework of statistical discrimination and the dual‐system theory of human cognition to understand the relationship between a political candidate's vote share, physical appearance,…
Parental early-life exposure to land reform and household investment in children’s education
We examine the intergenerational relationship between the early-life exposure of parents to China’s Household Responsibility System (HRS) reform, which assigned collective-owned farmland to individual households, and investment in their children’s education. We find that an increase in the length of exposure of parents to the HRS reform when they were children or adolescents increases the extent to which they invest in their children’s education,…
Parental misbeliefs and household investment in children's education
Missing Women in China and India over Seven Decades
This paper constructs long-run estimates of total missing women (including missing girls at birth and excess female deaths) in China and India over seven decades from 1950 to 2020. We find that the number of missing women in India has been higher than in China throughout the seven decades. Over time, missing girls at birth grew faster in China than in India, but China has made more rapid progress in reducing excess female deaths after birth. Whil…
The Intergenerational Impacts of War
While adverse consequences of war for the generation who lived through the conflict have been well documented in the literature, the intergenerational impacts of war have received far less attention. We provide causal evidence on the impact of bombings during the Vietnam War on the prevalence of child labour among second-generation Vietnamese, defined as those born after the Vietnam War. Our preferred results, which instrument for bombing intensi…
Locus of control and the mental health effects of local area crime
Social Capital Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing of Older Chinese
The long-term impact of the Vietnam War on agricultural productivity
R&D intensity and income inequality in the G7
We examine how R&D has contributed to income inequality in the Group of Seven countries from 1870 to 2016. Using newly developed panel data models that incorporate interactive fixed effects, we find that R&D is negatively associated with income inequality. Non‐parametric models that allow us to capture the time‐varying effect of R&D suggest that this average effect has been negative for most of this period. We find that economic growth and trade …
How do children of immigrants perform? Evidence from Australian nationwide standardized tests
We examine the educational achievement of children of immigrants and native‐born parents in Australia, using nationally representative panel data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children linked to nationwide standardized examinations. The findings indicate that children of immigrants perform significantly better than children of native‐born Australians in five subjects and three grade levels. While this reflects Australia's shift toward…
Personal or political patronage? Judicial appointments and justice loyalty in the High Court of Australia
We examine whether Justices appointed to the High Court of Australia are more likely to find in favour of the Federal Government when the Prime Minister who appointed them is in office than when subsequent Prime Ministers are in office, over the period 1995 to 2019. We find evidence of a loyalty effect, even when subsequent Prime Ministers are of the same political party as the Prime Minister who appointed them. We distinguish between Justices ap…
Occupation, Reparations, and Rebellion
Analysis of the link between the Soviet occupation of East Germany and internal resistance within the German Democratic Republic reveals that ongoing payment of reparations by East Germans out of local production-via the Soviet's ownership of prominent local companies-affected both the incidence and the intensity of unrest at the precinct level during the uprising of June 17, 1953. This result is robust when controlling for variation in the prese…
Fuel poverty and subjective wellbeing
Housing wealth and happiness in Urban China
R&D intensity and carbon emissions in the G7
Human capital and energy consumption
Consumption and Happiness
We examine the relationship between (relative) consumption and happiness using panel data for China, an important developing country. We find that consumption has a positive effect on happiness. An increase in the average consumption of those of the same age, education and gender at the community level has a positive effect on happiness, consistent with a signalling effect, while an increase in the consumption of the highest spenders in this grou…
Labour Market and Human Capital Behaviour of Immigrant Couples
We examine the labour market and human capital investment behaviour of immigrant couples in Australia. The family investment hypothesis (FIH) states that immigrant husbands, whom the FIH assumes to be the primary earners in the family, will invest more in their human capital than immigrant wives, whom the FIH assumes to be secondary earners. Using longitudinal data from Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) for the period 200…
Personal Well-being in Urban China
The Environment and Well-Being in Urban China
The Development of British Colonial Film Policy, 1927–1939, with special reference to East and Central Africa
From the 1920s the British government sought to manipulate the powerful new propaganda weapon of the cinema to the advantage of the Empire. Unsuccessful attempts were made to break the American stranglehold on the colonial cinema circuit which was thought to pose a threat to British commercial and political interests. Attempts to control what were seen as the harmful effects of the commercial cinema were made through strict censorship. The Coloni…
Happiness and job satisfaction in urban China
This study investigates determinants of happiness and job satisfaction of urban locals, first-generation migrants and new-generation migrants in China’s urban workforce. We present evidence to suggest that new-generation migrants are less satisfied with their jobs and lives than first-generation migrants, despite having higher income. This finding is consistent with aspirations rising faster than income in China’s fast-growing urban economy
Access to social insurance in urban China
The impact of China’s new Labour Contract Law on socioeconomic outcomes for migrant and urban workers
This article examines the effect of having a labour contract on a range of employee outcomes (wages, hours worked, social insurance coverage and subjective well-being) for a sample of urban and migrant workers in China using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project. Using different methods, we find that the Labour Contract Law has larger effects for urban workers than for migrant workers on receipt of social benefits, subjecti…
Which Rural Migrants Receive Social Insurance in Chinese Cities
This article draws on a survey of internal migrant workers in China’s Jiangsu province to shed light on the characteristics of migrant workers who receive social insurance and explain why some migrants take up social insurance while others do not. Of the factors which potentially explain which migrants receive social insurance, gender, past earnings, ties to the city to which the migrant had moved, the ownership type of the enterprise in which th…
Ethnic Diversity and Poverty
What keeps China's migrant workers going? Expectations and happiness among China's floating population
China's rural-urban migrants have been the engine room that has driven China's high rate of economic growth; however, their living and working conditions are poor. This paper addresses the question: What keeps China's migrant workers going? We seek to answer this question through examining the determinants of the happiness of China's rural-urban migrants, drawing on a large-scale survey administered across 12 cities in 2005. We find that expectat…
Effects of Intergroup Contact on Attitudes of Chinese Urban Residents to Migrant Workers
One consequence of China's marketisation has been the emergence of a 'floating population'-rural Chinese who migrate to China's cities to work. Many urbanites have negative attitudes towards such migrants. To understand how these negative attitudes might be ameliorated, the paper employs Allport's influential contact hypothesis to investigate whether urbanite-migrant friendships affect attitudes. More negative attitudes were observed among males …
The Contact Hypothesis in Urban China
This study is the first to test Allport’s (1954) contact hypothesis from the perspective of a minority group in China. Employing a sample of off-farm migrant workers in urban China, results indicate a positive effect on self-reported attitudes of intergroup friendship contact between migrant and local workers; and positive effects on self-reported behavioral interaction between migrants and urban locals of both intergroup friendship and intergrou…
The British Colonial Film Unit and sub-Saharan Africa, 1939-1945
1988). The British Colonial Film Unit and sub-Saharan Africa, 1939–1945. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 285-298
The Post-War Career of the Colonial Film Unit in Africa
1992). The Post-War Career of the Colonial Film Unit in Africa: 1946–1955. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 163-177
Mediating Role of Psychological Capital in the Relationship between Social Support and Wellbeing of Refugees
This study examines the relationship between social support from work and non‐work domains and the wellbeing of refugee employees. In addition, it examines the mediating influence of psychological capital on these relationships. Using data from 190 refugee employees living in Australia, we find that while perceived organizational support and perceived family support are positively related to the wellbeing of refugee employees, the relationship be…
The role of attitudinal, institutional and environmental factors in explaining variations in the dissent rate on the High Court of Australia
This paper examines the role of attitudinal, institutional and environmental factors in explaining the dissent rate on the High Court of Australia (hereafter High Court) using data for the period 1904–2001. The paper's main conclusion is that the majority of attitudinal and institutional factors tested are important predictors of variation in the dissent rate while the urbanisation rate, which is used to measure socio-political complexity, has no…
The 'Haves' and the 'Have Nots
The High Court has always played an important political and social role. However, recent debate over implied rights in the Constitution has brought judicial power into focus, making it an important topic for assessment. One framework that has been used to test judicial power in Canadian, English and United States appeal courts is the notion of party capability theory. This paper analyses reported and unreported decisions of the High Court since 1…
Regional House Prices and the Ripple Effect in Malaysia
This paper applies univariate and panel Lagrange multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and two structural breaks to the ratio of the regional to national house price to examine the ripple effect for five different housing price indices (aggregate housing, detached housing, semi-detached housing, terrace housing and high-rise housing) across 14 regional locations in Malaysia. Segmentation is restricted to a small group of states across most hou…
Knowing One's Lot in Life Versus Climbing the Social Ladder
The Central African Film Unit's images of empire, 1948-1963
Britain's African colonies and British propaganda during the Second World War
A study of the impact of environmental surroundings on personal well-being in urban China using a multi-item well-being indicator
What Determines the Extent to which Employers will Comply with their Social Security Obligations? Evidence from Chinese Firm‐level Data
This article aims to extend understanding of employer responses to social protection regulations enacted by government to ensure the well‐being and security of employees. By utilizing firm‐specific data collected from Shanghai we explore the relationship between firm characteristics, employer behaviour, and the effectiveness of compliance mechanisms that have been adopted to contain contribution evasion by employers. We offer empirical evidence a…
War Propaganda During the Second World War in Northern Rhodesia
Journal Article WAR PROPAGANDA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN NORTHERN RHODESIA Get access ROSALEEN SMYTH ROSALEEN SMYTH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 83, Issue 332, July 1984, Pages 345–358, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097623 Published: 01 July 1984
Housing wealth and happiness in Urban China
Education, Marriage, and Fertility
In 1994, Bangladesh introduced the Female Secondary School Stipend Program that made secondary education free for rural girls. This paper examines the long-term effects of the stipend program on education, marriage, fertility, and labor market outcomes of women. We find that the stipend increased years of education for eligible girls by 14%–25%. These girls were more likely to get married later and have fewer children. They also had more autonomy…
The Development of British Colonial Film Policy, 1927–1939, with special reference to East and Central Africa
From the 1920s the British government sought to manipulate the powerful new propaganda weapon of the cinema to the advantage of the Empire. Unsuccessful attempts were made to break the American stranglehold on the colonial cinema circuit which was thought to pose a threat to British commercial and political interests. Attempts to control what were seen as the harmful effects of the commercial cinema were made through strict censorship. The Coloni…
The effect of context on dative position
The Central African Film Unit's images of empire, 1948-1963
A note on the ‘Saucepan Special’
(1984). A note on the ‘Saucepan Special’: the people's radio of Central Africa. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 195-201
War Propaganda During the Second World War in Northern Rhodesia
Journal Article WAR PROPAGANDA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN NORTHERN RHODESIA Get access ROSALEEN SMYTH ROSALEEN SMYTH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 83, Issue 332, July 1984, Pages 345–358, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097623 Published: 01 July 1984
Britain's African colonies and British propaganda during the Second World War
The British Colonial Film Unit and sub-Saharan Africa, 1939-1945
1988). The British Colonial Film Unit and sub-Saharan Africa, 1939–1945. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 285-298
The Feature Film in Tanzania
Journal Article THE FEATURE FILM IN TANZANIA Get access ROSALEEN SMYTH ROSALEEN SMYTH Rosaleen Smyth lectured in the University of Zambia 1979–1983 and is now a senior legislative research specialist with the Legislative Research Service at Parliament House, Canberra Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 352, July 1989, Pages 389–396, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf…
The Post-War Career of the Colonial Film Unit in Africa
1992). The Post-War Career of the Colonial Film Unit in Africa: 1946–1955. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 163-177
An Economics Perspective on Harsher Penalties
A (Re)interpretation of Recent Developments in the Reform of State-owned Enterprises
Recent Developments in Rural Enterprise Reform in China
Research Article| August 01 1998 Recent Developments in Rural Enterprise Reform in China: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects Russell Smyth Russell Smyth Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (8): 784–800. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645583 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Ic…
Property Rights in China's Economic Reforms
This paper explores China's experience with property rights reform. In contrast to most countries in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, China has experimented with different ownership forms and this has been quite successful. Over the last two decades China has had the highest growth rate in the world. The main argument presented here is that private property rights alone cannot provide a theory for China's economic success and that…
Enterprise Bankruptcies and the Restructuring of China's State-Owned Sector
Theories of the Firm and the Relationship between Different Perspectives on the Division of Labour
This paper explores the tension between the organisational learning, market and hierarchies rationales for the firm. It is not clear, from the organisational learning and market-hierarchies literatures, what role exists for the different approaches. The paper suggests that this reflects the fact that each paradigm is premised on a particular notion of the division of labour but, at the same time, does not recognise that the division of labour is …
Should China be Promoting Large-Scale Enterprises and Enterprise Groups
The 'Haves' and the 'Have Nots
The High Court has always played an important political and social role. However, recent debate over implied rights in the Constitution has brought judicial power into focus, making it an important topic for assessment. One framework that has been used to test judicial power in Canadian, English and United States appeal courts is the notion of party capability theory. This paper analyses reported and unreported decisions of the High Court since 1…
Malaysian Business in the New Era
Economic and social adjustment in Malaysia in the new business era, Chris Nyland et al Malaysian export competitiveness compared with the dynamic economies - past performance and prospects for the next millennium, Peter Wilson Australian business attitudes to Malaysia, Marika Vicziany et al transaction costs of cross cultural exchange - evidence from Australia-Malaysia case studies, Ergun Dogan et al Japanese electronics firms in Malaysia - after…
Judicial Interaction on the Latham Court
This article examines voting patterns in two sub‐periods of the Latham Court (1935‐1940 and 1940‐1950), where voting is defined as a decision (and associated judgements) by the Justices participating in the disposition of a particular case. There are two main findings. First, from 1935 to 1940 there was a clear four‐Justice core consisting of Justices Sir George Rich, Sir Owen Dixon, Herbert Vere Evatt and Sir Edward McTiernan. Over this period, …
Historical Consensual Norms in the High Court
There is a substantial political-science literature that discusses the notion of consensual norms in the US Supreme Court. Most of this literature assumes that consensual norms exist, rather than proving their existence. Caldeira and Zorn ( American Journal of Political Science 42: 874-902, 1998) use the method of cointegration developed in econometric time-series analysis to prove the existence of a single consensual norm in the US Supreme Court…
"Equity for Debt Swaps" in China's State-Owned Enterprises
Explaining historical dissent rates in the high court of Australia
This article examines the role of a judge's social background and the role of the leadership of the chief justice in explaining variations in dissent rates on the High Court of Australia between 1903 and 1975. It is of interest for students of comparative judicial politics because it is the first study to consider whether many of the factors which have been used to explain variations in dissent rates for the United States Supreme Court are applic…
Economic Restructuring in China's Large and Medium-sized State-owned Enterprises
Through field trips and interviews, which took place in June and November 2000, this article discusses recent developments in the economic restructuring of five large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in one city in Liaoning. We found that most of the firms we interviewed have attempted to compete in the market and upgrade technologies. This is most apparent in attempts to separate the production and social welfare functions of the …
The Determinants of Immigration from Fiji to New Zealand
This article re‐examines Gani's (1998) findings on the determinants of migrant flows from Fiji to New Zealand by employing the bounds testing procedure to cointegration, within an autoregressive distributive lag framework. The main findings are that in the long run all variables are statistically insignificant, although correctly signed with the exception of the unemployment differential. In the short run, in sharp contrast to Gani's (1998) findi…
What Determines Migration Flows From Low‐income to High‐income Countries? An Empirical Investigation of Fiji–U.S. Migration 1972–2001
This article examines the long‐run and short‐run determinants of migration from Fiji to the United States between 1972 and 2001 using a human capital framework, which is extended to take account of political instability in Fiji. In the long‐run the authors find that differences in income levels, disparities in police strength, disparities in the number of doctors, costs of moving, and political instability in Fiji are all statistically significan…
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