Rate My Professor Garry Barrett

Professor Garry Barrett is Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney's School of Economics within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He currently holds the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Curriculum Futures) in the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) portfolio, having previously served as Head of the School of Economics. Barrett earned his BEc (Hons) from the University of Sydney and his MA and PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on labour economics, public economics, inequality and poverty measurement, econometrics, and public policy. He has made significant contributions to understanding labour supply responses, retirement decisions, welfare dominance testing, and the impacts of housing prices and pensions on household behaviour.

Barrett's scholarly output includes over 60 publications, with key works appearing in top-tier journals. Notable papers are 'Labor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using More Accurate Hours Data' (Journal of Human Resources, 2019, with Daniel S. Hamermesh), 'The Impact of Age Pension Eligibility Age on Retirement and Program Dependence: Evidence from an Australian Experiment' (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, with Kadir Atalay), 'Consistent Tests for Poverty Dominance Relations' (Journal of Econometrics, 2016, with Stephen G. Donald and Yu-Chin Hsu), 'Consistent Nonparametric Tests for Lorenz Dominance' (Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2014, with Stephen G. Donald), 'Consumption and Income Inequality in Australia' (Economic Record, 2000, with Thomas F. Crossley), 'Retirement Routes and the Well-Being of Retirees' (Empirical Economics, 2022, with Kadir Atalay), and 'House Price Shocks, Credit Constraints and Household Indebtedness' (2020). In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Barrett serves as Editor of The Economic Record, Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Chair of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey Advisory Panel, and has consulted for the Australian Department of Social Services and other government agencies.