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 (6)

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

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

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.