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Biography
Nicole Black (née Au) is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School. She currently holds an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) to investigate children's time investments, cognitive development and health. From 2013-2018 she was funded by an Australian National Preventive Health Agency Research Fellowship to investigate the economic consequences of childhood and adolescent obesity over the life-course. Her research has contributed to understanding the causal relationship between childhood obesity and human capital development (including academic achievement and socio-emotional skill development). She has demonstrated that the prevention of childhood obesity is likely to have substantial economic benefits over a child’s life-course, over and above those related to health. Nicole received her PhD in Health Economics from Monash University in 2012. She was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher in 2016.
Nicole's research interests include child health, economics of obesity, health care utilisation, measurement issues in health and wellbeing, behavioural economic strategies for health promotion and gambling behaviours and harms.
New paper: “The health care costs of childhood obesity in Australia: An instrumental variables approach” Economics and Human Biology, 2018.
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Projects 2013 2022
The impacts of increased gambling opportunities on gambling behaviour and related harms among older Victorians
23/02/18 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Farm to Families Research Evaluation
Palermo, C. E., Lombard, C. B., Black, N. & Barbour, L. R.
15/07/16 → 1/08/17
Project: Research
Health Facilities Costing Study of the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services
Lorgelly, P. K., Black, N., Gillespie, S., Irava, W., Mahal, A. S., Mortimer, D. S. & Spinks, J.
27/02/13 → 31/08/15
Project: Research
Research Output 2011 2018
For richer, for poorer: the relationship between adolescent obesity and future household economic prosperity
Black, N., Kung, C. S. J. & Peeters, A. 1 Jun 2018 In : Preventive Medicine. 111, p. 142-150 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
The health care costs of childhood obesity in Australia: an instrumental variables approach
Black, N., Hughes, R. & Jones, A. M. 1 Sep 2018 In : Economics and Human Biology. 31, p. 1-13 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Differential item functioning in quality of life measurement: An analysis using anchoring vignettes
Knott, R., Lorgelly, P. K., Black, N. & Hollingsworth, B. P. 1 Oct 2017 In : Social Science and Medicine. 190, p. 247-255 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Getting weighed down: the effect of childhood obesity on the development of socioemotional skills
Black, N. & Kassenboehmer, S. C. 1 Jun 2017 In : Journal of Human Capital. 11, 2, p. 263-295 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Justification bias in self-reported disability: new evidence from panel data
Black, N., Johnston, D. W. & Suziedelyte, A. 1 Jul 2017 In : Journal of Health Economics. 54, p. 124-134 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
Australian Health Economics Society Early Career Researcher Prize
Nicole Black (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher
Nicole Black (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence
Nicole Black (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)