• Do personality traits affect productivity? Evidence from the lab 

      Cubel, Maria; Nuevo‐Chiquero, Ana; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian
      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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    • Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19 

      Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Baxter, Janeen; Cornish, Alexander; Ho, Tiffany; Kalb, Guyonne; Mazerolle, Lorraine; Parsell, Cameron; Pawson, Hal; De Silva, Lihini; Zubrick, Stephen
      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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    • The Bilingual Gap in Children’s Language, Emotional and Pro-social Development 

      Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Harmon, Colm; Staneva, Anita
      Published 2021
      In 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 ...
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    • Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare 

      Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
      Published 2021
      Our 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 ...
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