Jeff Borland is a Professor in the Department of
Economics at the University of Melbourne. He has
a B.A. (Hons) in Economics and History from
the University of Melbourne, and a Ph.D in
Economics from Yale University. He
has held a full-time teaching position in the
Department of Economics at University of Melbourne
since 1988. He was also Head
of the Department between 2003-2006. He was
a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Economic
Policy Research at the Australian National
University between 1996-98, and has had visiting teaching positions
at the University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin-Madison. His
main research interests are program and policy
evaluation and design, applications of microeconomic
theory, and analysis of the operation of labour
markets in Australia. In
1997 he was awarded the Australian Academy
of Social Sciences Medal for Excellence in
Scholarship in the Social Sciences, and in
2002 was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social
Sciences. His
current teaching is in the areas of microeconomics
and Australian economic history. At University
of Melbourne he has been a recipient of the
Ed Brown University Teaching Prize and the
Dean’s Award for
Individual Teaching, and at Yale University
he was awarded the Raymond Powell Prize for
Excellence in Teaching in the Department of
Economics. In
2007 he was awarded a Carrick Citation for
Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. He is currently
Editor of the ‘For
the Student’ section of the Australian Economic Review and
on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Sports Economics,
and between 1998 and mid-2002 was Co-Editor
and Editor of the Economic
Record. He has acted as a consultant on labour market
and microeconomics issues to organisations
such as the OECD, IMF, ACCC, New Zealand Treasury,
and Productivity Commission, and is currently
a member of the Commonwealth Treasury’s
Academic Reference Panel.
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