Bruce Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3954046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6054-7695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding recent Hecs–Help price misunderstandings
In October 2020, the Australian Parliament legislated what appear to be significant changes in HECS–HELP prices, the tuition charges levied on domestic undergraduate students. Through this policy change, the Government aims to influence student choices in order to help deliver the skill changes presumed to be required for the economy's post‐COVID make‐up. This paper examines, in conceptual and empirical terms, a key aspect of the motivation for t…
A novel approach to the sustainable financing of the global restoration of degraded agricultural land
Humanity must find ways to feed an expanding human population. This requires maintaining the productivity of agricultural land, although much of it is increasingly degraded. Many trillions of dollars will be needed to address land degradation globally, but there has been little discussion about how to sustainably finance major global initiatives such as the UN Decade of ecosystem restoration. We suggest that existing financing instruments (govern…
Conceptual and Empirical Issues for Alternative Student Loan Designs
In this article, we compare the two main types of student loans used to finance postsecondary education: mortgage-type loans, which are repaid over a set period of time and mainly used in the United States; and income-contingent loans, which are repaid depending on students' future income and used in Australia and England. We argue that the major concern with mortgage-type loans is the repayment burden that falls on students. Repayment burden-the…
The Measurement by Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) of Disturbance Within the Nasca World Heritage Site
In this paper we report on our use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) as a means of monitoring the Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana World Heritage Site in Peru, where the colossal ground drawings, popularly known as the Nasca Lines, are found. Our research to date indicates that the environment in which the Nasca geoglyphs are found, and the nature of the geoglyphs themselves, are suited perfectly for investigation by SAR. SAR als…
What’s love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability
Discovering ancient Maya settlements using airborne radar elevation data
Ernie's Three Worlds
This article is the text of an introductory address presented at the Faculty of Law on 23 October 2009 in celebration of Professor Ernest Weinrib's receiving the 2009 Killam Prize, Canada's most distinguished annual award for outstanding scholarly achievement. It offers a very personal interpretation of the contributions that Weinrib has made to private-law scholarship over the last thirty years and is organized around three closely related quest…
Preference, Pluralism, and Proportionality
Inspired by Michael Trebilcock's commitment to pluralism, this essay analyses the balancing and accommodating of competing values, often a central task in the making of legal judgments. Part i shows why it is so difficult to resist being utilitarian in one's approach to this problem. Using the methods of social choice theory, the author shows that some seemingly reasonable conditions ineluctably lead to the utilitarian result where the different …
Births, debts and mirages
Using the tax system to collect fines
In this article we consider the possibility that fines could be collected through the tax and social welfare systems in the same way as higher education contributions and child support payments are currently administered. We argue that the existing system of fine collection and enforcement leads to high default rates and reduces the usefulness of fines as a sanction. We consider a range of models for the implementation of an income‐related fine c…
An income‐related loans proposal for drought relief for farm businesses
In 2004 the Commonwealth government is undertaking a review of its drought policy. This follows expenditure in excess of $1 billion on drought relief during 2002 and 2003 and comes only a decade after similarly large expenditure on support for farmers during the drought of the 1990s. Drought support for farm businesses has been provided within the framework of the National Drought Policy (NDP) agreed by Commonwealth and state governments in 1992 …
Rational Aggregation
In two recent papers, Christian List and Philip Pettit have argued that there is a problem in the aggregation of reasoned judgements that is akin to the aggregation of the preference problem in social choice theory. 1 Indeed, List and Pettit prove a new general impossibility theorem for the aggregation of judgements, and provide a propositional interpretation of the social choice problem that suggests it is a special case of their impossibility r…
Between State and Market
The first section of the book contains an overview of the charitable sector in Canada, a sociological review of altruism in different societies, a discussion of altruism in various philosophical and religious traditions, an economic analysis of "rational voluntarism," and an assessment of the relationship between the charitable sector and the welfare state. The second section contains five papers on the legal definition of charity, both general (…
Chance, Reason, and the Rule of Law
Conceptual Issues and the Australian Experience With Income Contingent Charges for Higher Education
Journal Article Conceptual Issues and the Australian Experience With Income Contingent Charges for Higher Education Get access Bruce Chapman Bruce Chapman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 442, May 1997, Pages 738–751, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.1997.tb00039.x Published: 30 January 2012
Immigrant Qualifications
Australian society is most unusual in that it is characterized by relatively large numbers of immigrants, many of whom are ostensibly skilled workers. This empirical exercise used a data set compiled under the auspices of the Commonwealth Government. The data revealed that around 39 percent of skilled immigrants chose to subject their overseas qualifications to local assessment and, of these, 42 percent were recognized as being equivalent to thei…
Immigrant Qualifications
One aim of this study is to examine the labor market outcomes of immigrants relative to the Australian born.... In particular, this article examines both the extent of formal nonrecognition of overseas qualifications and the indirect implications for wage outcomes of a lack of full recognition of qualifications. Immigrant relative wage analysis...is the subject of the second part of this article
Trust, Economic Rationality, and the Corporate Fiduciary Obligation
Bruce Chapman, Trust, Economic Rationality, and the Corporate Fiduciary Obligation, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3, Special Issue on Corporate Stakeholder Debate: The Classical Theory and Its Critics (Summer, 1993), pp. 547-588
Labor Turnover Bias in Estimating Wages
Agency and Contingency
Sex differences in earnings
The conventional human capital earnings function is applied to a rich set of Malaysian wage data in an attempt to determine the origins of sex differences in average earnings. Several findings are of interest, the first being that the relationships estimated from the earnings function are similar to those typically reported for non‐LDCs. Second, less than a third of the average monthly wage difference between the sexes of about 34 per cent appear…
Raising Johnny to Be Good
Tyranny and Legitimacy
Individual Rights, Good Consequences, and the Theory of Social Choice
In a series of recent papers a number of economists and philosophers have been wrestling with the age-old problem of reconciling the value we place on the exercise of individual liberty with the value we also seem to accord to economic efficiency. Amartya Sen put the problem in its starkest form when he showed that for some configurations of individual preferences the two following principles are not consistent with one another: (i) The Pareto Pr…
Specific Training and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in U.S. Manufacturing
H UMAN capital theory posits that individuals invest in the acquisition of productive skills in order to derive higher future earnings. While the dichotomy between investments in and skills has long been recognised,t empirical tests of the theory do not usually distinguish between the two earnings components.2 In this paper the conventional earnings model is expanded to incorporate worker-financed specific training. The inclusion of tenure allows…
Conceptual Issues and the Australian Experience With Income Contingent Charges for Higher Education
Journal Article Conceptual Issues and the Australian Experience With Income Contingent Charges for Higher Education Get access Bruce Chapman Bruce Chapman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 442, May 1997, Pages 738–751, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.1997.tb00039.x Published: 30 January 2012
Discovering ancient Maya settlements using airborne radar elevation data
Rational Aggregation
In two recent papers, Christian List and Philip Pettit have argued that there is a problem in the aggregation of reasoned judgements that is akin to the aggregation of the preference problem in social choice theory. 1 Indeed, List and Pettit prove a new general impossibility theorem for the aggregation of judgements, and provide a propositional interpretation of the social choice problem that suggests it is a special case of their impossibility r…
Immigrant Qualifications
Australian society is most unusual in that it is characterized by relatively large numbers of immigrants, many of whom are ostensibly skilled workers. This empirical exercise used a data set compiled under the auspices of the Commonwealth Government. The data revealed that around 39 percent of skilled immigrants chose to subject their overseas qualifications to local assessment and, of these, 42 percent were recognized as being equivalent to thei…
Immigrant Qualifications
One aim of this study is to examine the labor market outcomes of immigrants relative to the Australian born.... In particular, this article examines both the extent of formal nonrecognition of overseas qualifications and the indirect implications for wage outcomes of a lack of full recognition of qualifications. Immigrant relative wage analysis...is the subject of the second part of this article
What’s love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability
Between State and Market
The first section of the book contains an overview of the charitable sector in Canada, a sociological review of altruism in different societies, a discussion of altruism in various philosophical and religious traditions, an economic analysis of "rational voluntarism," and an assessment of the relationship between the charitable sector and the welfare state. The second section contains five papers on the legal definition of charity, both general (…
Using the tax system to collect fines
In this article we consider the possibility that fines could be collected through the tax and social welfare systems in the same way as higher education contributions and child support payments are currently administered. We argue that the existing system of fine collection and enforcement leads to high default rates and reduces the usefulness of fines as a sanction. We consider a range of models for the implementation of an income‐related fine c…
An income‐related loans proposal for drought relief for farm businesses
In 2004 the Commonwealth government is undertaking a review of its drought policy. This follows expenditure in excess of $1 billion on drought relief during 2002 and 2003 and comes only a decade after similarly large expenditure on support for farmers during the drought of the 1990s. Drought support for farm businesses has been provided within the framework of the National Drought Policy (NDP) agreed by Commonwealth and state governments in 1992 …
Law, Morality, and the Logic of Choice
Tragic Choices
Specific Training and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in U.S. Manufacturing
H UMAN capital theory posits that individuals invest in the acquisition of productive skills in order to derive higher future earnings. While the dichotomy between investments in and skills has long been recognised,t empirical tests of the theory do not usually distinguish between the two earnings components.2 In this paper the conventional earnings model is expanded to incorporate worker-financed specific training. The inclusion of tenure allows…
Individual Rights, Good Consequences, and the Theory of Social Choice
In a series of recent papers a number of economists and philosophers have been wrestling with the age-old problem of reconciling the value we place on the exercise of individual liberty with the value we also seem to accord to economic efficiency. Amartya Sen put the problem in its starkest form when he showed that for some configurations of individual preferences the two following principles are not consistent with one another: (i) The Pareto Pr…
Tyranny and Legitimacy
Raising Johnny to Be Good
Sex differences in earnings
The conventional human capital earnings function is applied to a rich set of Malaysian wage data in an attempt to determine the origins of sex differences in average earnings. Several findings are of interest, the first being that the relationships estimated from the earnings function are similar to those typically reported for non‐LDCs. Second, less than a third of the average monthly wage difference between the sexes of about 34 per cent appear…
Labor Turnover Bias in Estimating Wages
Agency and Contingency
Immigrant Qualifications
Australian society is most unusual in that it is characterized by relatively large numbers of immigrants, many of whom are ostensibly skilled workers. This empirical exercise used a data set compiled under the auspices of the Commonwealth Government. The data revealed that around 39 percent of skilled immigrants chose to subject their overseas qualifications to local assessment and, of these, 42 percent were recognized as being equivalent to thei…
Immigrant Qualifications
One aim of this study is to examine the labor market outcomes of immigrants relative to the Australian born.... In particular, this article examines both the extent of formal nonrecognition of overseas qualifications and the indirect implications for wage outcomes of a lack of full recognition of qualifications. Immigrant relative wage analysis...is the subject of the second part of this article
Trust, Economic Rationality, and the Corporate Fiduciary Obligation
Bruce Chapman, Trust, Economic Rationality, and the Corporate Fiduciary Obligation, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3, Special Issue on Corporate Stakeholder Debate: The Classical Theory and Its Critics (Summer, 1993), pp. 547-588
Conceptual Issues and the Australian Experience With Income Contingent Charges for Higher Education
Journal Article Conceptual Issues and the Australian Experience With Income Contingent Charges for Higher Education Get access Bruce Chapman Bruce Chapman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 442, May 1997, Pages 738–751, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.1997.tb00039.x Published: 30 January 2012
Chance, Reason, and the Rule of Law
Between State and Market
The first section of the book contains an overview of the charitable sector in Canada, a sociological review of altruism in different societies, a discussion of altruism in various philosophical and religious traditions, an economic analysis of "rational voluntarism," and an assessment of the relationship between the charitable sector and the welfare state. The second section contains five papers on the legal definition of charity, both general (…
Rational Aggregation
In two recent papers, Christian List and Philip Pettit have argued that there is a problem in the aggregation of reasoned judgements that is akin to the aggregation of the preference problem in social choice theory. 1 Indeed, List and Pettit prove a new general impossibility theorem for the aggregation of judgements, and provide a propositional interpretation of the social choice problem that suggests it is a special case of their impossibility r…
Using the tax system to collect fines
In this article we consider the possibility that fines could be collected through the tax and social welfare systems in the same way as higher education contributions and child support payments are currently administered. We argue that the existing system of fine collection and enforcement leads to high default rates and reduces the usefulness of fines as a sanction. We consider a range of models for the implementation of an income‐related fine c…
An income‐related loans proposal for drought relief for farm businesses
In 2004 the Commonwealth government is undertaking a review of its drought policy. This follows expenditure in excess of $1 billion on drought relief during 2002 and 2003 and comes only a decade after similarly large expenditure on support for farmers during the drought of the 1990s. Drought support for farm businesses has been provided within the framework of the National Drought Policy (NDP) agreed by Commonwealth and state governments in 1992 …
Births, debts and mirages
Preference, Pluralism, and Proportionality
Inspired by Michael Trebilcock's commitment to pluralism, this essay analyses the balancing and accommodating of competing values, often a central task in the making of legal judgments. Part i shows why it is so difficult to resist being utilitarian in one's approach to this problem. Using the methods of social choice theory, the author shows that some seemingly reasonable conditions ineluctably lead to the utilitarian result where the different …
Discovering ancient Maya settlements using airborne radar elevation data
Ernie's Three Worlds
This article is the text of an introductory address presented at the Faculty of Law on 23 October 2009 in celebration of Professor Ernest Weinrib's receiving the 2009 Killam Prize, Canada's most distinguished annual award for outstanding scholarly achievement. It offers a very personal interpretation of the contributions that Weinrib has made to private-law scholarship over the last thirty years and is organized around three closely related quest…
What’s love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability
The Measurement by Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) of Disturbance Within the Nasca World Heritage Site
In this paper we report on our use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) as a means of monitoring the Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana World Heritage Site in Peru, where the colossal ground drawings, popularly known as the Nasca Lines, are found. Our research to date indicates that the environment in which the Nasca geoglyphs are found, and the nature of the geoglyphs themselves, are suited perfectly for investigation by SAR. SAR als…
Conceptual and Empirical Issues for Alternative Student Loan Designs
In this article, we compare the two main types of student loans used to finance postsecondary education: mortgage-type loans, which are repaid over a set period of time and mainly used in the United States; and income-contingent loans, which are repaid depending on students' future income and used in Australia and England. We argue that the major concern with mortgage-type loans is the repayment burden that falls on students. Repayment burden-the…
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