David W Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 337933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3185-2890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The growing divide
Rising out-of-pocket costs for psychotherapy in Australia have heightened concerns about financial barriers to mental healthcare, particularly for lower-income households, who disproportionately experience psychological distress. Using nation-wide linked administrative records of income and healthcare use, we estimate the magnitude of income-related inequity in psychotherapy use among 5.4 million individuals diagnosed with a mental health conditi…
Alignment between top-down disaster indices and local views on disaster preparedness
This study examines whether top-down indices of disaster resilience and vulnerability align with individuals’ perceptions of preparedness and coping capacity. Using data from a nationally representative survey of Australians in 2021, we match individuals’ self-reported perceptions to two indices: the Vulnerability Index and the Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index. Regression analyses reveal that these indices, including most of their sub…
Safer in School? The Impact of Compulsory Schooling on Maltreatment and Associated Harms
Abused and neglected children are at extreme risk of school dropout, poor health, and destructive behaviours, yet evidence on interventions that prevent maltreatment and its harms is limited. We use a South Australian education reform to examine whether extending the school-leaving age from 16 to 17 improves maltreatment-related outcomes. Using administrative records and regression-discontinuity techniques, we find that the reform reduced first-t…
Religiosity and crime
This paper estimates the impacts of religiosity on criminal activity using a city-wide shock to religious sentiment from a 2015 Papal visit. Using daily data on all reported offenses between 2010 and 2015 in Philadelphia at the census tract level and a difference-in-differences approach, we demonstrate significant reductions in less serious crimes in the week of the visit and for several weeks following. Reductions are particularly pronounced for…
Children's access to mental healthcare
A majority of children with mental health problems do not access mental healthcare. This study examines factors that facilitate access to mental healthcare services and prescription medication when children's mental health deteriorates, focusing on the mother's economic resources and her perceived assessment of her child's emotional problems. Using longitudinal survey data linked to national medical records, we find that the child's self-assessme…
Expecting less in hard times
Students’ realistic aspirations about their educational attainment (expectations) are predictive of their efforts, actions, and future outcomes. Limited evidence suggests these expectations are affected by the macroeconomy; however, the direction is ambiguous. We combine seven waves of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data to examine this relationship in 38 OECD countries. Using within-country fixed-effect regressions, we fin…
Temperature’s Toll on Decision-Making
Does temperature affect decision-making abilities and rationality? Using Indonesian data, we estimate how risky choices, impatience and rational choice violations vary with exposure to temperature. We show that hot weather temporarily increases rational choice violations and impatience, but does not affect risk-related decisions. These effects are primarily driven by nighttime rather than daytime temperatures. We provide suggestive evidence that …
Importance of Religion after Adversity
After major adversity, some people rely on their religious faith and networks for comfort, support, and material goods and services. Consistent with this behavior are findings that adversity has a positive causal effect on the importance of religion in people's lives. Using a large high-frequency US dataset, we estimate the causal effects of natural disasters on stated religious importance and attendance at religious services. Effects are identif…
Effect of In utero Exposure to Air Pollution on Adulthood Hospitalizations
Empirical analyses have demonstrated that individuals exposed to severe air pollution in utero have worse health outcomes during childhood. However, there is little evidence on the long-term health impacts of air pollution exposure. The objective of this paper is to estimate the effect of in utero exposure to the Great London Smog of 1952 (GLS) on five health outcomes identified through a scoping review to be those most likely affected: respirato…
Resilience to disaster
Upside-Down Down-Under
Measuring resilience to major life events
Changes in children’s time use during periods of financial hardship
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes, written by Raylor, Timothy
Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events
Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events
Understanding who in the population is psychologically resilient in the face of major life events, and who is not, is important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we construct a measure of adult resilience, document its distribution, and test its predictability by childhood socioeconomic circumstances. We use a dynamic finite mixture model applied to 17 years of panel data, and focus on the psychological reaction t…
Handling Stolen Goods
The effect of school sports facilities on physical activity, health and socioeconomic status in adulthood
Victimisation, Well‐being and Compensation
The costs of violent crime victimisation are often left to a tribunal, judge or jury to determine, which can lead to considerable subjectivity and variation. Using panel data, this article provides compensation estimates that help reduce the subjectivity of awards by providing a benchmark for the compensation required to offset direct and intangible costs. Individual‐area fixed‐effects models of well‐being that allow for adaptation and the endoge…
Handling Stolen Goods
Who provides inconsistent reports of their health status? The importance of age, cognitive ability and socioeconomic status
Education and health knowledge
Further investigations of the donor-flight response
Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction? Evidence from British Cohort Surveys
We investigate the extent to which childhood characteristics are predictive of adult life satisfaction using data from two British cohort studies. In total, variables observed up to age 16 predict around 7% of the variation in average adult life satisfaction. Adding contemporaneous adulthood variables increases the predictive power to 15.6%, while adding long lags of life satisfaction increases it to 35.5%. Overall, we estimate that around 30–45%…
Do Sector Wide Approaches for health aid delivery lead to 'donor-flight'? A comparison of 46 low-income countries
Self-assessed health
Discrimination makes me sick! An examination of the discrimination–health relationship
Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction? Evidence from British Cohort Surveys
We investigate the extent to which childhood characteristics are predictive of adult life satisfaction using data from two British cohort studies. In total, variables observed up to age 16 predict around 7% of the variation in average adult life satisfaction. Adding contemporaneous adulthood variables increases the predictive power to 15.6%, while adding long lags of life satisfaction increases it to 35.5%. Overall, we estimate that around 30–45%…
Victimisation, Well‐being and Compensation
The costs of violent crime victimisation are often left to a tribunal, judge or jury to determine, which can lead to considerable subjectivity and variation. Using panel data, this article provides compensation estimates that help reduce the subjectivity of awards by providing a benchmark for the compensation required to offset direct and intangible costs. Individual‐area fixed‐effects models of well‐being that allow for adaptation and the endoge…
Education and health knowledge
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation
Do parents invest more or less in their high-ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing observed ability differences and observed investment differences between siblings living in the United States. To overcome endogeneity issues, we use sibling differences in handedness as an instrument for cognitive ability differences. We find that parents invest more in high-ability children, with a 1 standard deviation increase i…
Explaining the Female Black-White Obesity Gap
There exist remarkably large differences in body weights and obesity prevalence between black and white women in the United States; and crucially, these differences are a significant contributor to black-white inequalities in health. In this article, we investigate the most proximal explanations for the weight gap: namely, differences in diet and exercise. More specifically, we decompose black-white differences in body mass index and waist-to-hei…
The Idea of a Liberal Theory
Liberalism, the founding philosophy of many constitutional democracies, has been criticized in recent years from both the left and the right for placing too much faith in individual rights and distributive justice. In this book, David Johnston argues for a reinterpretation of liberal principles he contends will restore liberalism to a position of intellectual leadership from which it can guide political and social reforms. He begins by surveying …
Exploring the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and problem drinking as captured by Google searches in the US
Is Paternal Age Associated with an Increased Risk of Low Birthweight, Preterm Delivery, and Multiple Birth
Who provides inconsistent reports of their health status? The importance of age, cognitive ability and socioeconomic status
Characteristics of Preterm Delivery and Low Birthweight Among 113,994 Infants in Alberta
Resilience to disaster
Changes in children’s time use during periods of financial hardship
The effect of school sports facilities on physical activity, health and socioeconomic status in adulthood
The triumph of hope over disappointment
Convergent validity between a discrete choice experiment and a direct, open-ended method
Temperature’s Toll on Decision-Making
Does temperature affect decision-making abilities and rationality? Using Indonesian data, we estimate how risky choices, impatience and rational choice violations vary with exposure to temperature. We show that hot weather temporarily increases rational choice violations and impatience, but does not affect risk-related decisions. These effects are primarily driven by nighttime rather than daytime temperatures. We provide suggestive evidence that …
Importance of Religion after Adversity
After major adversity, some people rely on their religious faith and networks for comfort, support, and material goods and services. Consistent with this behavior are findings that adversity has a positive causal effect on the importance of religion in people's lives. Using a large high-frequency US dataset, we estimate the causal effects of natural disasters on stated religious importance and attendance at religious services. Effects are identif…
Do Sector Wide Approaches for health aid delivery lead to 'donor-flight'? A comparison of 46 low-income countries
Extra Status and Extra Stress
Promotions ordinarily involve higher wages and greater privileges; but often they also increase responsibility, accountability, and work hours. Therefore, whether promotions are good for workers' well-being is an empirical question. Using high-quality panel data the authors estimate pre- and post-promotion effects on job attributes, physical health, mental health, and life satisfaction in an attempt at answering this question. They find that prom…
Nature’s experiment? Handedness and early childhood development
In recent years, a large body of research has investigated the various factors affecting child development and the consequent impact of child development on future educational and labor market outcomes. In this article, we contribute to this literature by investigating the effect of handedness on child development. This is an important issue given that around 10% of the world’s population is left-handed and given recent research demonstrating tha…
Attitudes toward Oil and Gas Development among Forest Recreationists
We examined the attitudes of forest recreationists toward oil and gas development in the Pigeon River Country State Forest (PRCSF) of Northern Lower Michigan. Hydrocarbon development of this area occurred, under strict environmental control, after a decade-long controversy over exploration and drilling in backcountry sites inhabited by 1 of 2 elk herds east of the Mississippi River. The controversy also involved the recreational, existential, and…
Attitudes toward Oil and Gas Development among Forest Recreationists
We examined the attitudes of forest recreationists toward oil and gas development in the Pigeon River Country State Forest (PRCSF) of Northern Lower Michigan. Hydrocarbon development of this area occurred, under strict environmental control, after a decade-long controversy over exploration and drilling in backcountry sites inhabited by 1 of 2 elk herds east of the Mississippi River. The controversy also involved the recreational, existential, and…
Lucia Fanizza, Giuristi Crimini Leggi Nell'età Degli Antonini (Pubblicazioni della Facoltà giuridica dell'Università di Bari I.XV). Naples
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The Roman Law of Trusts
Journal Article The Roman Law of Trusts Get access Johnston David, The Roman Law of Trusts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. xiv, 306 pp. $64.00. W. Hamilton Bryson W. Hamilton Bryson University of Richmond School of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 201–203, https://doi.org/10.2307/845529 Published: 01 April 1990
The Idea of a Liberal Theory
Liberalism, the founding philosophy of many constitutional democracies, has been criticized in recent years from both the left and the right for placing too much faith in individual rights and distributive justice. In this book, David Johnston argues for a reinterpretation of liberal principles he contends will restore liberalism to a position of intellectual leadership from which it can guide political and social reforms. He begins by surveying …
The Jurists
Introduction In Rome, quite unlike Athens, there grew up a professional class of lawyers. These ‘jurists’ were originally priests, but in the course of the third century bc they came to profess a secular jurisprudence. Their role in the Roman legal system was pivotal: neither the magistrates responsible for granting legal remedies nor the judges who decided cases were lawyers; all looked to the jurists for legal advice. Although the jurists did n…
Characteristics of Preterm Delivery and Low Birthweight Among 113,994 Infants in Alberta
Thinking Like a Lawyer
Is Paternal Age Associated with an Increased Risk of Low Birthweight, Preterm Delivery, and Multiple Birth
Epiclassical law
The classical period of Roman law is conventionally taken to end in 235 with the death of Alexander Severus. The third-century rescripts which survive cluster into groups. The vast bulk of surviving rescripts is from the reign of Diocletian. The reign of Diocletian saw the compilation of two codifications of imperial rescripts, the Codices Gregorianus and Hermogenianus. The first evidently collected rescripts from the reign of Hadrian up to 291, …
Retaining women in a prenatal care randomized controlled trial in Canada
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN64070727
Convergent validity between a discrete choice experiment and a direct, open-ended method
Comparing subjective and objective measures of health
Nature’s experiment? Handedness and early childhood development
In recent years, a large body of research has investigated the various factors affecting child development and the consequent impact of child development on future educational and labor market outcomes. In this article, we contribute to this literature by investigating the effect of handedness on child development. This is an important issue given that around 10% of the world’s population is left-handed and given recent research demonstrating tha…
Gauging knowledge of developmental milestones among Albertan adults
The majority of adults were unable to correctly answer questions related to when children under six years of age typically achieve developmental milestones. Knowledge of physical development exceeded knowledge about cognitive, emotional and social development. Adults were aware of the importance of positive experiences in influencing children's development. Strategies to improve awareness of developmental milestones combined with information on h…
Life Satisfaction Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data
Using life satisfaction responses from Australian panel data we examine the questions of when and to what extent individuals are affected by major positive and negative life events, including changes in financial situation, marital status, death of a close relative, and being the victim of crime. The key advantage of our data is that we are able to identify these events on a quarterly basis rather than on the yearly basis used by previous studies…
P1-359 Public opinion of childcare providers in Alberta, Canada
Objective To assess public opinion about, and interactions with, childcare providers and programs. Methods Between September 2007 and March 2008, 1443 randomly selected adults living in Alberta, Canada, completed a telephone survey. Individuals were eligible to participate if they had interactions with a child <14 years of age in the past 6 months. Results Of the respondents, 52% believed the government should cover between 40 and 60% of daycare …
Explaining the Female Black-White Obesity Gap
There exist remarkably large differences in body weights and obesity prevalence between black and white women in the United States; and crucially, these differences are a significant contributor to black-white inequalities in health. In this article, we investigate the most proximal explanations for the weight gap: namely, differences in diet and exercise. More specifically, we decompose black-white differences in body mass index and waist-to-hei…
Discrimination makes me sick! An examination of the discrimination–health relationship
The Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) cohort study
The Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) study is an ongoing prospective cohort study that recruits pregnant women early in pregnancy and, as of 2012, is following up their infants to 3 years of age. It has currently enrolled approximately 5000 Canadians (2000 pregnant women, their offspring and many of their partners). The primary aims of the APrON study were to determine the relationships between maternal nutrient intake and status,…
The triumph of hope over disappointment
Hyphae-Specific Genes HGC1, ALS3, HWP1, and ECE1 and Relevant Signaling Pathways in Candida albicans
Fungal virulence mechanisms include adhesion to epithelia, morphogenesis, production of secretory hydrolytic enzymes, and phenotype switching, all of which contribute to the process of pathogenesis. A striking feature of the biology of Candida albicans is its ability to grow in yeast, pseudohyphal, and hyphal forms. The hyphal form plays an important role in causing disease, by invading epithelial cells and causing tissue damage. In this review, …
Weight perceptions, weight control and income
The aim of this paper is to better understand one of the mechanisms underlying the income-obesity relationship so that effective policy interventions can be developed. Our approach involves analysing data on approximately 9000 overweight British adults from between 1997 and 2002. We estimate the effect of income on the probability that an overweight individual correctly recognises their overweight status and the effect of income on the probabilit…
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation
Do parents invest more or less in their high-ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing observed ability differences and observed investment differences between siblings living in the United States. To overcome endogeneity issues, we use sibling differences in handedness as an instrument for cognitive ability differences. We find that parents invest more in high-ability children, with a 1 standard deviation increase i…
Exploring the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and problem drinking as captured by Google searches in the US
Extra Status and Extra Stress
Promotions ordinarily involve higher wages and greater privileges; but often they also increase responsibility, accountability, and work hours. Therefore, whether promotions are good for workers' well-being is an empirical question. Using high-quality panel data the authors estimate pre- and post-promotion effects on job attributes, physical health, mental health, and life satisfaction in an attempt at answering this question. They find that prom…
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