Bruce Chapman, AO
Professor Bruce Chapman, AO
Bruce Chapman is a professor of economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU. He has a PhD from Yale University and has published around 200 articles and several books including in the areas of: higher education financing and student loans; wage and unemployment determination; government as risk manager; income contingent loans; and the economics of crime, happiness, cricket and marital separation. He has extensive experience in public policy having helped design the HECS policy, as a senior economic adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating, and as an adviser to the World bank, the OECD and the governments of a large number of countries. He received an Order of Australia in 2001 and the Distinguished Fellow Award of the Economics Society of Australia in 2015.
Subject Area Expertise
- Labour Economics
- The Economics of Education (higher education student financing)
- Economics Policy
- Applied Econometrics
- The Economics of Crime
- The Economics of Sport
Website
https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/bruce-chapman
