Researcher

Dr Timothy Neal

My Expertise

Climate Change Economics

Panic Buying During COVID

Data Modelling/Analysis

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Econometrics, Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation, Panel data analysis, Machine learning, Consumer behaviour

Biography

Tim is a Scientia Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics and also the Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR). His main research interests are panel data econometrics, machine learning, and climate change / environmental economics. His research has involved developing and applying large data to a diverse range of topics including the effects of climate change on crop yield, the impact of child labour on child development, and panic...view more

Tim is a Scientia Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics and also the Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR). His main research interests are panel data econometrics, machine learning, and climate change / environmental economics. His research has involved developing and applying large data to a diverse range of topics including the effects of climate change on crop yield, the impact of child labour on child development, and panic buying during the COVID pandemic. His future research agenda includes modelling the economic implications of climate change and exploring the synergies that exist between machine learning and econometric approaches to prediction and causal inference.

Alongside academic research, he has worked as an economic consultant on a full time and casual basis for prominent firms in Australia including Ernst & Young and Deloitte Access Economics.

Recipient of the prestigious Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research in 2021 by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

You can find his personal website here.


My Awards

ASSA 2021 Recipient of the Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research


My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

Environmental Economics

Panel Data Econometrics

IV Methods in Econometrics

Machine Learning


My Engagement

Notable Mentions of Research in the Media:

Shane Wright, "'Panic index' shows Australians were the world's best panic buyers", The Sydney Morning Herald / The Age, June 2 2020 [link]

Naaman Zhou, "Off the chart: Australians were world leaders in panic buying, beating UK and Italy", The Guardian, June 3 2020 [link]

 

Media Articles:

“Labor’s ‘sensible’ budget leaves Australians short-changed on climate action. Here’s where it went wrong”, The Conversation / ABC News, Available online: The Conversation Article & ABC News Article

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Videos

Given the warnings from scientists of potentially catastrophic changes to our climate from greenhouse gas emissions, it might surprise you to learn that we know very little about the potential economic implications of these unprecedented changes to the Earth’s climate. This lecture, directed at a general audience, will explore the potential channels through which climate change will impact our economy, and the unrealistic assumptions that underlie current models used to predict economic impacts. Insights from current research will be presented, as well as directions of future research into this extremely important subject.