Matt Woolf is a final year PhD student at the Australian National University, currently based in Santa Cruz, California.
Background
I’m an economist and farmer. My research interests are economic growth, population economics, macroeconomics, inequality, fiscal policy, political economy.
Education
PhD, Economics → Australian National University, 2018–2023
Master’s in International and Development Economics→ Australian National University, 2015–2017
Bachelor’s in Economics and Politics → The University of Western Australia, 2012–2015
Work
Research Assistant → Development Policy Centre, 2020-2022
Tutor and Lecturer→ Australian National University, 2020-2022
Head Farmer→ Hungry Wolf Farms, 2017-2018
Works in Progress
“Automation, intergenerational mobility and inequality: the role for basic income and robot taxation” with Creina Day (under review)
“Gender inequality, fertility rebound, and human capital in a bequest economy” with Creina Day
“Endogenous borrowing constraints, the intergenerational welfare state, and wealth inequality”
“Endogenous fertility and the intergenerational welfare state”