Dr Gary Marks is a Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Council for
Educational Research in the Transitions and Post-School Education and Training research
program. 

He was trained as a Sociologist with a PhD from the University of Queensland and did his
post-doctoral work at the Research School of the Social Sciences at the Australian
National University and the University of California (Los Angeles). 

His research has extensively involved analysis of longitudinal and cross-national
studies, the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth (LSAY) the Household, Income and
Labour Market Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) study, the OECD's international
Programme for International Student Assessment(PISA) study and most national Australian
Social Science Surveys. 

Dr Marks has written numerous research reports on major policy and research questions
using LSAY data. These include reports focusing on educational outcomes such as early
school leaving, attitudes toward school, school completion and tertiary entrance
performance and reports that focus on initial labour market outcomes.In addition he has
authored reports on well-being and young people's transition to adulthood. 

He has published in major Australian and international journals such as the Journal of
Sociology, the Australian Journal of Education , the British Journal of Sociology,
Quality and Quantity, Social Indicators and Social Forces. 

Gary Marks is experienced with a variety of complex statistical procedures including
structural equation modelling, event-history analysis and multi-level analysis, and the
analysis of data from cross-national and over-time surveys. He teaches analysis of
Longitudinal Data at the ACSPRI summer and winter schools. 

His main interest is on cross-national differences and over-time changes in the
relationship between social background and educational and occupational outcomes.

Articles (Refereed)

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Issues in the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Socioeconomic background: Do Different Measures Generate Different Conclusions?, Social Indicators Research (2011)
 

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Improvements over the educational career of immigrant students, Australian Journal of Education (2010)
 

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Meritocracy, modernization and students’ occupational expectations: Cross National evidence, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (2010)
 

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Socioeconomic and School Sector Inequalities in University Entrance in Australia: The Role of the Stratified Curriculum, Educational Research and Evaluation (2010)
 

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What Aspects of Schooling are Important? School Effects on Tertiary Entrance Performance, School Effectiveness and School Improvement (2010)
 

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Books

The On Track Survey 2008: the destinations of school leavers in Victoria (with Sheldon Rothman, Kylie Hillman, and Phil McKenzie), Dr. Philip McKenzie (2009)
 

Contributions to Books

The Influence of Cultural Capital on Educational and Early Labour Market Outcomes of Young People in Australia, Quantifying Theory: Pierre Bourdieu (2009)
 
Explaining Socioeconomic Inequalities in Student Achievement (with John Cresswell and John Ainley), Quantitative Research in Education (2008)
 
Australia : changes in socioeconomic inequalities in university participation (with J McMillan), Stratification in higher education : a comparative study (2007)
 

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Transitions to adulthood: Leaving home and partnering, Families, Incomes and Jobs, Volume 2:A Statistical Report on Waves 1 to 4 of the HILDA Survey (2007)
 

Articles

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Missing Out on a University Place, Research Developments (2006)
 
Aussies schools are not so 'undemocratic' (with John Ainley, Adrian Beavis, and Ken Rowe), Educare News (2003)
 

Unpublished Papers

Initiatives to improve youth pathways and transitions (with Justin Brown, Philip McKenzie, and Mike Long), An unpublished report to the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Canberra (2009)
 
Electoral Choice and Electoral Change in Australia, PhD - University of Queensland (1991)
 
The New Classes: An Empirical Investigation of Contemporary Approaches to Class, Masters - University of Queensland (1985)
 

Reports

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Career Moves : Expectations and Destinations of New South Wales Senior Secondary Students (with Catherine Underwood, Sheldon Rothman, Justin Brown, and ACER), Transition and Post-School Education and Training (2011)
 

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Education and training and the avoidance of financial disadvantage, Transition and Post-School Education and Training (2011)
 

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The On Track Survey 2010 : The Destinations of School Leavers in Victoria : statewide report (with Sheldon Rothman, Justin Brown, Kylie Hillman, Phil McKenzie, and Catherine Underwood), Transition and Post-School Education and Training (2011)
 

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Annual Transitions Between Labour Market States for Young Australians (with Hielke Buddelmeyer) (2010)
 

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On Track Survey 2009 : The Destinations of School Leavers in Victoria (with Sheldon Rothman, Justin Brown, Kylie Hillman, and Phil McKenzie), Transition and Post-School Education and Training (2010)
 

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Conference Papers & Presentations

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Early School Leavers: Who Are They, Why Do They Leave, and What Are the Consequences? (with Julie McMillan), 2001 - Understanding Youth Pathways (2001)
 

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School achievement and labour market outcomes (with John Ainley), Paper presented to the Centre for Economic Research, ANU Conference, Labour Market Trends and Family Policies : Implications for Children, 14-15 July 1999 (1999)