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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Default Superannuation Funds in Modern Awards: new inquiry
07 February 2012
The Productivity Commission has been asked to report within 8 months on Default Superannuation Funds in Modern Awards. The inquiry covers the design of criteria for the selection and ongoing assessment of superannuation funds for nomination as default funds in modern awards.
Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access released
13 January 2012

The Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access examines the recent East Asia Summit, bilateral alliances in the Asia Pacific, the future of Timor-Leste, women's participation in peace processes and more.

Read QA online: http://www.aiia.asn.au/qa/qa-vol4-issue1

Review of the Australia Council for the Arts
20 December 2011

Arts Minister Simon Crean has announced an independent review of the Australia Council for the Arts ahead of the development of the nation's first National Cultural Policy in almost 20 years.

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