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Duncan Ironmonger is Director of the Households Research Unit which in 1991 he established in the Department of Economics where he is Honorary Principal Fellow and Associate Professor. He has a Master of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
His economic and statistical career began more than 50 years ago in the Bureau of Statistics in Canberra. In 1966 he left the Bureau to join Ronald Henderson at the University of Melbourne as Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. Subsequently he was appointed Reader in Applied Economic Research. He became Deputy Director of the Institute in 1972 and ran it for five years after Henderson retired in 1979.
Since 1986 his major research has been in household economics, specialising on household input-output tables and household satellite national accounts, estimates of Gross Household Product (GHP), and modelling the household economy. In time use statistics his interests cover national time accounts, volunteering time and travel time. In household demography his research relates to household size, household age structure, and projections of numbers of households.
In macroeconomics he has been engaged econometric modelling and forecasting as Australian representative in World Project LINK for 30 years and in business expectations as economic consultant to Dun & Bradstreet Australia for 20 years. He has been a consultant to many government departments including official statistical agencies in the USA, UK, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand and Australia.
He has also been a consultant to UNDP, the United Nations Development Program, to ESCAP the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, to ECA, the Economic Commission for Africa and to AusAID, the Australian Agency for International Development.
Duncan Ironmonger’s publications include: Australian Economic Review (Foundation editor) 1967-1975, New Commodities and Consumer Behaviour 1972, National Income and Economic Progress (editor jointly) 1988, Households Work (editor) 1989, ‘Counting outputs, capital inputs and caring labor: estimating Gross Household Product’ Feminist Economics 1996, ‘Household production’ International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2001, A System of Time Accounts for Melbourne 2006 and ‘Time Use’ The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2008.
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