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Julie Smith was formerly a senior economist in Australian and New Zealand treasuries. She has a PhD in Economics (ANU) and, prior to joining ACERH, was a Visiting Fellow in the Economics Program at the Research School of Social Sciences and a postdoctoral fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. She has published on public finance and health issues in journals across several disciplines, with a strong interest in public policy. She has published two books on tax policy (Taxing Popularity and Gambling Taxation in Australia), and is currently researching a book on the economics of mothers’ milk.

Her main research interests are in health economics and public finance including;

• Time use survey of new mothers
• Economic aspects of breastfeeding and maternity care;
• Burden of illness;
• National accounting treatment of non-market economic production;
• Health care financing;
• Cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis;
• Federalism and health policy; and
• Economics of work and breastfeeding.

Smith JP and Ellwood M, "Feeding patterns and emotional care in breastfed infants", Social Indicators Research (in press)

Smith J, Dunstone M and Elliott-Rudder M, "Health professional knowledge of breastfeeding: Are the health risks of infant formula feeding accurately conveyed by the titles and abstracts of journal articles?", Journal of Human Lactation, Vol.25 No.3, August 2009, pp.350-58. (Abstract)

Baxter J, Cooklin AR and Smith J, "Which mothers wean their babies prematurely from full breastfeeding? An Australian cohort study", Acta Paediatrica, Vol.98 No.8, August 2009, pp.1274-77. (Abstract)

Smith JP, "Time Use among New Mothers, the Economic Value of Unpaid Work and Gender Aspects of Superannuation Tax Concessions", Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol.10 No.2, June 2007, pp.99-114.

Smith JP, "The Contribution of Infant Food Marketing to the Obesogenic Environment in Australia", Breastfeeding Review, Vol.15 No.1, March 2007, pp.23-35.

Smith JP, “Formula for fatness: infant food marketing in Australia”, in D Broom and J Dixon (eds) The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity, UNSW Press, February 2007.

Smith JP and Ingham LH, “Mothers’ milk and measures of economic output”, Feminist Economics, Vol.11 No.1, March 2005, pp.43-64.

Smith JP, “Mothers’ milk and markets”, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol.19 No.45, November 2004, pp. 369-79.

Smith JP, Taxing popularity: The story of taxation in Australia, 2nd edn, Australian Tax Research Centre, Sydney, 2004.

Smith JP, “Tax expenditures: The $30 billion twilight zone of government spending”, Research Paper No.8, Information and Research Services, Department of the Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2003.

Smith JP, Thompson JF and Ellwood DA, “Hospital system costs of artificial infant feeding: Estimates for the Australian Capital Territory”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol.26 No.6, December 2002, pp.543-51.

Smith JP, “Tax expenditures and public health financing in Australia”, Economic and Labour Relations Review, Vol.12 No.2, December 2001, pp.239-62.

Smith JP, “Progressivity of the Commonwealth personal income tax, 1917–1997”, Australian Economic Review, Vol.34 No.3, September 2001, pp. 263–78.

Smith JP, “Gambling taxation — public equity in the gambling industry?”, Australian Economic Review, Vol.33 No.2, June 2000, pp.120–44.

Smith JP, “Human milk supply in Australia”, Food Policy, Vol.24 No.1, May 1999, pp.71–91.