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Rebecca Kippen

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What's love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability

This paper investigates individual and couple characteristics associated with marital instability and finds that characteristics of men and women can have quite different impacts on marital stability

Generational differences in parity progression in Australia: the role of sex composition in children

This paper investigates generational differences in Australian parents' desire for both a son and a daughter

Reform of income tax in Australia: a long-term agenda

This paper demonstrates how benefits from continued increases in productivity can be distributed between the government and taxpayers in a way that promotes work incentives, achieves a gain in vertical equity, and allows the government’s revenue to continue to grow in real terms

Parental desire for sons and daughters in a western industrial setting: evidence and implications

Using census data Rebecca Kippen, Ann Evans and Edith Gray find that parents are much more likely to have a third or fourth birth if existing children are all of the same sex

Reform of income tax in Australia: a long-term agenda

Peter McDonald and Rebecca Kippen demonstrate how the tax-free threshold could be increased over a decade to well above the single adult rate of the Newstart Allowance and the gap between the company tax rate and average personal income tax rates reduced to less than five percentage points over a wide range of incomes

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Rethinking the Rules Governing Australia
16 March 2010

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Secrecy law reforms strike a blow to old culture of government secrecy
12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

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