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Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development
Published 2019
We 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 ...
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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Published 2021
We 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 ...
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Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19
Published 2021
This 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 ...
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Do personality traits affect productivity? Evidence from the lab
Published 2016
While 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 ...
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Risk preference dynamics around life events
Published 2019
Using 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 ...
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The reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status
Published 2019
This 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% ...
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Locus of control and internal migration
Published 2019
We 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 ...
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Lives saved during economic downturns: Evidence from Australia
Published 2021
Worldwide, 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 ...
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The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Fertility Intentions
Published 2020
Paid 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 ...
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Childhood homelessness and adult employment: the role of education, incarceration, and welfare receipt
Published 2017
This 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 ...
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