Life Course Centre: Recent submissions
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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 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 -
The stability of personality traits in adolescence and young adulthood
Published 2017Models of economic decision-making usually assume that personality is stable over time. We assess the validity of this assumption over an eight-year time frame in adolescence and young adulthood using nationally representative ...Open AccessArticle -
Understanding the mechanisms through which adverse childhood experiences affect lifetime economic outcomes
Published 2019Over the past two decades, researchers have shown a growing interest in the role of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) – children's confrontation with maltreatment and household dysfunction – in shaping health outcomes. ...Open AccessArticle -
Does education strengthen the life skills of adolescents?
Published 2017Life skills, sometimes referred to as noncognitive skills or personality traits (e.g. conscientiousness or locus of control—the belief to influence events and their outcomes), affect labor market productivity. Policy makers ...Article