Dr Tony Beatton
Honorary Research Fellow
Institute for Social Science Research
+61 7 334 67475
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).
Journal Articles
Thorpe, Karen, Rankin, Peter, Beatton, Tony, Houen, Sandy, Sandi, Matteo, Siraj, Iram and Staton, Sally (2020). The when and what of measuring ECE quality: Analysis of variation in the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) across the ECE day. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 53, 274-286. doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.05.003
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
Beatton, Tony (2014). Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness, Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer (Eds.). Cheltenham, UK (2013) (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 271). 524 and xxiii pp., $280.25 (sc), ISBN: 978-1-78195-382-2 (hc). Journal of Economic Psychology, 42, 189-191. doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2013.12.002
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
Conference Paper
Thorpe, K., Smith, S., Mamun, A., Staton, S., Beatton, T., Heussler, H., LeBourgeois, M., Blair, P., Coles, L., Oaks, C. and Sinclair, G. (2019). Many naps, one nap, none: tracking the developmental significance of sleep transition in early childhood. 15th World Sleep Congress, Vancouver, Canada, 20-25 September 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.11.1071
Working Papers
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 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 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.