Family Responses to Economic Shocks and Policy Reforms over the Life Cycle

澳大利亚的社会和经济政策要求对公共政策与最近的人口趋势，包括脆弱家庭和老龄人口的增长之间的相互作用有深刻的理解。该项目旨在开发创新的家庭决策动态模型，以产生澳大利亚重大公共政策改革对劳动力供应、生育率、家庭组成和退休决定的影响的新估计。结构经济计量模型将用于模拟育儿付款单一，养老金和其他方案的设计变化的影响。预计项目结果将产生经济和社会政策建议。

Australian social and economic policy requires a sophisticated understanding of the interaction of public policy with recent demographic trends, including the growth in fragile families and the ageing population. This project aims to develop innovative dynamic models of family decision-making to produce new estimates of the impact of significant Australian public policy reforms on labour supply, fertility, family formation, and retirement decisions. Structural econometric models will be used to simulate the effects of variation in the design of the Parenting Payment Single, Age Pension and other programs. The project findings are expected to generate economic and social policy recommendations.