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Michael A. Shields

Michael A. Shields

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
47
Citations
13802
World Ranking
1561
National Ranking
37

Overview

Michael A. Shields is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and works primarily within the Health Professions field. Their research spans several key areas including health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, global health care issues, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, resilience and mental health, retirement, disability, and employment, as well as air quality and health impacts.

The scientist has contributed notably to the following research topics:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

Subfields covered in their publications include general health professions, health, social psychology, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and clinical psychology.

Research output includes papers published mainly in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, SSRN Electronic Journal, Health Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and Social Science & Medicine. The volume of work is concentrated with 13 publications in Harvard Dataverse and 6 in SSRN Electronic Journal among others.

Recent publications by the scientist include:

  • Economic Aspects of Loneliness in Australia, 2021, Australian Economic Review
  • Measuring resilience to major life events, 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • COVID-19 lockdowns and changes in loneliness among young people in the U.K., 2023, Social Science & Medicine
  • Macroeconomic Conditions and Health in Britain: Aggregation, Dynamics and Local Area Heterogeneity, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Are neighbourhood characteristics important in predicting the post-school destinations of young Australians?, 2021, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Frequent collaborators include a consistent group of co-authors with whom they have multiple joint publications. These co-authors are:

  • Saina Sheini
  • Alina Ristea
  • Daniel T. O'Brien
  • David Johnston
  • Johannes Kunz

The focus of the scientist's work reflects an intersection of health-related issues with economic and social factors, contributing to understanding complex interactions in public health and social welfare domains. Their research methodology often includes analysis of resilience, psychological well-being, and the socioeconomic determinants of health outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Relative income, happiness, and utility : an explanation for the Easterlin paradox and other puzzles

    Andrew E. Clark;Paul Frijters;Michael A. Shields

  • Money does matter! Evidence from increasing real income and life satisfaction in East Germany following reunification

    Paul Frijters;John P Haisken-DeNew;Michael A Shields

  • Improving nurse retention in the National Health Service in England: the impact of job satisfaction on intentions to quit.

    Michael A. Shields;Melanie Ward

  • The causal effect of income on health: Evidence from German reunification

    Paul Frijters;John P. Haisken-DeNew;Michael A. Shields

  • Exploring the economic and social determinants of psychological well‐being and perceived social support in England

    Michael A. Shields;Stephen Wheatley Price

  • Comparing subjective and objective measures of health: Evidence from hypertension for the income/health gradient.

    David W Johnston;Carol Propper;Michael A Shields

  • Life satisfaction and the economic and social characteristics of neighbourhoods

    Michael A. Shields;Stephen Wheatley Price;Mark Wooden

  • Investigating the Patterns and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Germany Following Reunification

    Paul Frijters;John P. Haisken-DeNew;Michael A. Shields

  • The child health/family income gradient: Evidence from England.

    Alison Currie;Michael A Shields;Stephen Wheatley Price

  • Investigating the economic and demographic determinants of sporting participation in England

    Lisa Farrell;Michael A. Shields

  • Quantifying the costs of drought: New evidence from life satisfaction data

    Nicholas Carroll;Paul Frijters;Michael A Shields

  • Life satisfaction dynamics with quarterly life event data

    Paul Frijters;David W. Johnston;Michael A. Shields

  • The English language fluency and occupational success of ethnic minority immigrant men living in English metropolitan areas

    Michael A. Shields;Stephen Wheatley Price

  • Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications

    Andrew E. Clark;Paul Frijters;Michael A. Shields

  • THE EFFECT OF MENTAL HEALTH ON EMPLOYMENT: EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRALIAN PANEL DATA

    Paul Frijters;David William Johnston;Michael A Shields

  • Nature's Experiment?: Handedness and Early Childhood Development

    David W. Johnston;Michael E. R. Nicholls;Manisha Shah;Michael A. Shields

  • Gender, race, pay and promotion in the British nursing profession: estimation of a generalized ordered probit model

    Stephen Pudney;Michael Shields

  • Can the Large Swings in Russian Life Satisfaction be Explained by Ups and Downs in Real Incomes

    Paul Frijters;Ingo Geishecker;John P. Haisken-DeNew;Michael A. Shields

  • Does problem drinking affect employment? Evidence from England

    Ziggy MacDonald;Michael A. Shields

  • Addressing Nurse Shortages: What can Policy Makers Learn from the Econometric Evidence on Nurse Labour Supply?

    Michael A. Shields

  • Quantifying the costs of drought: new evidence from life

    N. Carroll;P. Frijters;M. A. Shields

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Frijters
Paul Frijters London School of Economics and Political Science
Carol Propper
Carol Propper Imperial College London
Stephen Pudney
Stephen Pudney University of Sheffield
Michael E. R. Nicholls
Michael E. R. Nicholls Flinders University
Timothy J. Hatton
Timothy J. Hatton University of Essex
Andrew E. Clark
Andrew E. Clark Paris School of Economics
Anthony Scott
Anthony Scott University of Melbourne
Owen O'Donnell
Owen O'Donnell Erasmus University Rotterdam
Mark Wooden
Mark Wooden University of Melbourne

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