ProfessorGarry Barrett

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Curriculum Futures

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

BIO

BEc (Hons) Sydney, MA UBC, PhD, UBC

Garry Barrett completed his BEc (Hons) at the University of Sydney, and his MA and PhD at the University of British Columbia. Garry's main areas of research are labour economics, public economics and microeconometrics. Garry's research has focused on measuring economic inequality and poverty; applying consumption based measures of wellbeing; examining participation in income support programs and, more recently, analyzing the determinants of retirement behaviour and household saving. His work has been published in journals such as Econometrica,Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Econometrics Journal, Review of Income and Wealth, Canadian Journal of Economics and The Economic Record.

SCHOOL

  • School of Economics

AVAILABILITY

  • Research supervision

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)