Creina Day was awarded a PhD in Economics in July 2008. Her thesis, “Essays in Population, R&D and Economic Growth” was nominated for a prize by examiners Paul Romer (Stanford), Alan Taylor (University of California (Davis) and Ngo Van Long (McGill University).

Prior to joining the Department, Creina was a Lecturer in postgraduate Macroeconomics Analysis at the University of Sydney. She received 3 awards: Excellence in Online Teaching (Sem 1, 2008); Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (Sem 2, 2008 and Sem 1, 2009). As a first time lecturer in Macroeconomics 2, she was also nominated for the ANU’s highest award for teaching, the 2006 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Research interests

• economic demography
• R&D-based growth
• macroeconomics

Key publications

• "Will Fertility Rebound in Japan?" (forthcoming Asia Pacific Economic Papers)
• “Economic Growth, Gender Wage Gap and Fertility Rebound” (forthcoming Economic Record, June 2012)
• “China's Fiscal Stimulus and the Recession Australia Never Had” 2011, Agenda, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 23 -34
• “What Entices the Stork? Fertility, Education and Family Payments”, (with S. Dowrick) The Economic Record, 2010, Vol. 86, September, pp. 69-79
• “Taxes, Growth and the Current Account ‘Tick-Curve’ Effect”, Australian Economic Papers, 2010, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp.13-27
• “The Dynamics of Fertility and Growth: Baby Boom, Bust and Bounce-Back”, The Berkeley Electronic Journals of Macroeconomics, 2004, Vol. 4, No. 1, Article 14
• “Ageing Economics: Human Capital, Productivity and Fertility”, (with S. Dowrick) Agenda, Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, 2004, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 3-20

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