Michelle Rendall is a Professor at the Department of Economics, a CEPR research fellow, and a research affiliate at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute.  Her research in macroeconomics focuses on human capital, labour and gender issues. Her research in labour economics focuses on early childhood education, peer effects, and gender inequities.  She has published in the Econometrica, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics and World Development. Her research has been cited in Business Insider and Bloomberg. In July 2014 she received the ZUNIV “Fonds zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses” research grant.  In 2020 she received an ARC Discovery Grant to study talent mismatch using Australian administrative tax records.

Michelle has taught courses both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.  More specifically, she has taught the PhD core Macroeconomics course and Undergraduate Labour Economics at Monash University; the PhD core Macroeconomics course, a PhD Math course, and a Masters course on Economics Growth at the University of Zurich; and a PhD Macroeconomics Labour course and Undergraduate Economic Growth at the University of Oslo.

Prior to joining Monash University, Michelle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich and the University of Oslo. She obtained her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

• Macroeconomics (Human Capital, Family, Inequality, and Growth)
• Labour Economics (Education and Peer Effects)