Jaslin Kalsi

Research Associate
Qualifications

PhD Economics (Curtin)
BCom (Hon) Economics (Curtin)
BCom Finance and Strategic Economic Analysis (Curtin)

Telephone+61 8 9266 1744
Research Fields

Economic and social wellbeing, gender equality, economic policy, behavioural economics, political economy, ecological economics

Biography

Jaslin is a research affiliate at the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre. She has previously worked as a researcher at Insight Energy, The Red Elephant Foundation, and UNDP (Kenya). She was also involved as a researcher on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP170103297), ‘Inside the black box: Intra-household resource allocations of older couples’. Her research interests include economic and social wellbeing, gender equity, and social exclusion. She is proficient in the use of panel datasets including the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey and has experience with data collection and designing interview surveys.

Jaslin graduated from Curtin University with first class honours in Economics and was awarded as the Best Economics Honours Graduate by the Economics Society of Australia, WA Branch. She recently completed her PhD on gender inequality and the distribution of intra-household wellbeing at key stages of the life course and received a Chancellor’s commendation for her work.

Find out more about Jaslin’s research and what she enjoys about studying at BCEC.

Projects

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Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Landmark Study Alan Duncan, Jaslin Kalsi, Astghik Mavisakalyan The Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Landmark Study was commissioned by the Western Australian Government to design and implement a research and evaluation project focused on the mining industry, regarding three focus areas: Mental health Sexual harassment/assault, and Emerging... Read article ProjectApril 2022 - November 2022WA Economy  |  Business and Industry  |  Policy Evaluation  |  Health, Wellbeing and Disadvantage Read More
Indigenous Employment Index Rebecca Cassells, Michael Dockery, Alan Duncan, Jaslin Kalsi, Lili Loan Vu, Astghik Mavisakalyan, Silvia Salazar The Minderoo Foundation’s Generation One initiative pursues a goal to achieve employment parity with and for Indigenous Australians within one generation. This means engaging and retaining 250,000 Indigenous people in employment in the next two decades. Noting that the lack... Read article ProjectJune 2021Participation and Employment  |  Business and Industry  |  Indigenous Wellbeing Read More

Publications

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Climate Change and Gender Equality Abebe Hailemariam, Jaslin Kalsi, Astghik Mavisakalyan Climate change is having a significant negative impact on the lives of individuals around the globe. But this impact is not distributed equally. A growing body of research suggests that women are more vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate... Read article Publication25 May 2023Books and Book Chapters Read More
Parenthood and the distribution of intra-household inequalities in wellbeing Siobhan Austen, Jaslin Kalsi, Astghik Mavisakalyan While there is a large body of literature on the effects of parenthood on wellbeing, an intra-household perspective has, thus far, been limited. This is an important research gap given that the experience of raising children is typically associated with... Read article Publication7 March 2023Journal Articles Read More
Towards a healthy and safe workforce in the mining industry: A review and mapping of current practice Alan Duncan, Jaslin Kalsi, Astghik Mavisakalyan The Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Landmark Study is a four-year research and evaluation project led by ARC Laureate Professor Sharon Parker at the Centre for Transformative Work Design at Curtin University. The Landmark Study was commissioned by the... Read article Publication26 November 2022Research Reports Read More
Retirement and the distribution of intra-household wellbeing Siobhan Austen, Jaslin Kalsi, Astghik Mavisakalyan This study analyses the links between retirement and the distribution of intra-household wellbeing among Australian mixed-sex couples. We study the implications of own and partner’s retirement on measures of life satisfaction, financial satisfaction, and free time satisfaction using household panel... Read article Publication29 July 2022Journal Articles Read More
Woort Koorliny: Australian Indigenous Employment Index 2022 Rebecca Cassells, Alan Duncan, Michael Dockery, Jaslin Kalsi, Lili Loan Vu, Astghik Mavisakalyan, Silvia Salazar The Indigenous Employment Index was commissioned by Minderoo’s Generation One initiative, partnering with Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and Murawin Consulting, as an Australian first to identify and measure practices within large organisations that increase and improve Indigenous employment. The goal... Read article Publication24 May 2022Research Reports Read More
Employment and the distribution of intra-household financial satisfaction Jaslin Kalsi, Siobhan Austen, Astghik Mavisakalyan This study applies a methodology used by De Henau and Himmelweit (2013) to study resource allocation in Australian mixed-sex couple households. Using 18 waves of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey and by means of... Read article Publication30 November 2021Journal Articles Read More