Browsing Multidisciplinary Initiatives by subject "1402 Applied Economics"
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The Bilingual Gap in Children’s Language, Emotional and Pro-social Development
Published 2021In this paper we examine whether – conditional on other family inputs – bilingual children achieve different outcomes in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which ...Article -
Childhood homelessness and adult employment: the role of education, incarceration, and welfare receipt
Published 2017This paper examines the long-run employment consequences of experiencing homelessness in childhood rather than later in life. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of disadvantaged ...Open AccessArticle -
Do personality traits affect productivity? Evidence from the lab
Published 2016While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labour market outcomes, the exact mechanisms behind this association remain unexplored. We take advantage of a controlled laboratory set‐up to explore ...Open AccessArticle -
The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Published 2021We identify the causal impact of quarantining welfare payments on Aboriginal children’s school attendance by exploiting exogenous variation in its rollout across communities. We find that income quarantining reduced ...Article -
The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Fertility Intentions
Published 2020Paid parental leave is an important part of family policy in OECD countries. Australia's Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme was introduced in 2011 and provides 18 weeks of leave paid at the full time minimum wage for the ...Open AccessArticle -
Lives saved during economic downturns: Evidence from Australia
Published 2021Worldwide, countries have been restricting work and social activities to counter the emerging public health crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. These measures have caused dramatic increases in unemployment. Some ...Article -
Locus of control and internal migration
Published 2019We model migration across domestic labor markets (internal migration) as the outcome of a job search process in which job seekers form subjective beliefs about the return search effort that are related to their locus of ...Open AccessArticle -
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19
Published 2021This paper identifies and examines a range of policy reform opportunities in Australia arising from COVID-19. The authors demonstrate how COVID-19 presents unique opportunities for rethinking and redesigning long-standing ...Open AccessArticle -
Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development
Published 2019We propose a household production function approach to human development that explicitly considers the role of parenting style in child rearing. Specifically, parenting style is modelled as an investment that depends not ...Open AccessArticle -
Parents’ Responses to Teacher Qualifications
Published 2022We identify the causal effect of children being assigned to more highly qualified teachers on their parents’ investments. Exploiting a unique setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents ...Open AccessArticle -
Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare
Published 2021Our goal is to investigate the pathways that link welfare receipt across generations. We undertake a mediation analysis in which we not only calculate the intergenerational correlation in welfare, but also quantify the ...Open AccessArticle -
Present bias for monetary and dietary rewards
Published 2022Economists model self-control problems through time-inconsistent preferences. Empirical tests of these preferences largely rely on experimental elicitation using monetary rewards, with several recent studies failing to ...Article -
The reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status
Published 2019This paper analyzes the reciprocal lagged relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status. We find that severe depressive symptoms contribute to a 25.6% increase in subsequent non-employment rates, a 20.7% ...Open AccessArticle -
Risk preference dynamics around life events
Published 2019Using a panel of Australians I estimate the dynamic relationship between common life events and risk preferences. Changes in financial circumstances, parenthood and family loss predict changes in risk preferences. Importantly ...Open AccessArticle