Life Course Centre: Recent submissions
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What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?
Published 2022Two years ago, in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were widespread and grim predictions of an ensuing suicide epidemic. Not only has this not happened but also by the end of 2021 in the majority of countries ...Article -
Disentangling what works best for whom in comorbidity
Published 2022This short commentary article reviews Mason EC, Grierson AB, Sie A, et al. Co-occurring insomnia and anxiety: A randomized controlled trial of internet CBT for insomnia vs. internet CBT for anxiety. Sleep. 2022Article -
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 -
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 -
The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey
Published 2021This article describes the Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey (ATEPS). The data set comprises a wide variety of preference and behavioral measures (risk aversion, impatience, ambiguity aversion, trust, confidence) ...Open AccessArticle