Multidisciplinary Initiatives: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The effects of COVID-19 on Chinese stock markets: an EGARCH approach
Published 2021Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has greatly affected financial markets, economies and societies worldwide. This study focusses on the Chinese stock markets. Based ...Article