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• Parents’ Responses to Teacher Qualifications 

  Chang, Stephen; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolas

  Published 2022

  We 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 ...

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• Present bias for monetary and dietary rewards 

  Cheung, Stephen L.; Tymula, Agnieszka; Wang, Xueting

  Published 2022

  Economists 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 ...

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• The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey 

  Kettlewell, Nathan; Tymula, Agnieszka

  Published 2021

  This 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) ...

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• Exploring the role of parental engagement in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse 

  Elkins, Rosemary; Schurer, Stefanie

  Published 2020

  We examine the role that parental engagement with child’s education plays in the lifecourse dynamics of locus of control (LOC), one of the most widely studied non-cognitive skills related to economic decision-making. We ...

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• The stability of personality traits in adolescence and young adulthood 

  Elkins, Rosemary K; Kassenboehmer, Sonja C; Schurer, Stefanie

  Published 2017

  Models 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 ...

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