Dr Tony Beatton

Honorary Research Fellow

Institute for Social Science Research

+61 7 334 67475

d.beatton@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

After a 30-year career in the Information Technology industry in service engineering and sales & marketing, Tony retired in 2003 and went back to school (for fun!). Tony completed a degree in Finance and Management, Masters by Research in Management (Trust development in newly forming teams) and a PhD (Economics of happiness).

Publications

Journal Articles (5)

Working Papers (4)

Journal Articles

Beatton, Tony, Kidd, Michael P. and Machin, Stephen (2018) Gender crime convergence over twenty years: evidence from Australia. European Economic Review, 109 275-288. doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.01.001

Beatton, Tony, Kidd, Michael P., Machin, Stephen and Sarkar, Dipanwita (2017) Larrikin youth: Crime and Queensland's Earning or Learning reform. Labour Economics, 52 149-159. doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2017.11.003

Beatton, Tony and Torgler, Benno (2017) Volunteering and life or financial shocks: does income and wealth matter?. Applied Economics, 50 19: 2190-2209. doi:10.1080/00036846.2017.1392003

Beatton, Tony, Dulleck, Uwe, Fooken, Jonas and Schaffner, Markus (2017) Wages, promises and effort in an intercultural labour market: experimental evidence from Australia. Australian Economic Review, 50 3: 257-277. doi:10.1111/1467-8462.12222

Frijters, Paul and Beatton, Tony (2012) The mystery of the U-shaped relationship between happiness and age. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 82 2-3: 525-542. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2012.03.008

Working Papers

Beatton, Tony and Frijters, Paul (2018). Do changes in the lives of our peers make us happy?. LCC Working Paper Series 2018-14, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.

Beatton, Tony, Kidd, Michael P. and Sandi, Matteo (2018). Age in cohort, school indiscipline and crime: regression-discontinuity estimates for Queensland. LCC Working Paper Series 2018-13, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.

Beatton, Tony, Kidd, Michael P. and Machin, Stephen (2017). Gender crime convergence over twenty years. LCC Working Paper Series 2017-26, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.

Beatton, Tony and Frijters, Paul (2017). Determinants of adolescent happiness in Australia. LCC Working Paper Series 2017-18, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.