Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by publication year
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The relationship of shift work disorder with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress
Published 202Shift workers commonly suffer from disturbed sleep, which is known to affect mental health in other populations. Shift work disorder (SWD) is characterized by complaints of insomnia and/or excessive daytime sleepiness ...Open AccessArticle -
Lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of risk preferences
Published 2015We investigate which socioeconomic groups are most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse using data from a nationally representative German survey and methods to separate age from cohort and period ...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 -
Context-dependency in valuation
Published 2016In the last few years, work in the nascent field of neuroeconomics has advanced understanding of the brain systems involved in value-based decision making. An important modulator of valuation processes is the specific ...Open AccessArticle -
Mental health and productivity at work: Does what you do matter?
Published 2017Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers’ reduced productivity. Using nationally representative panel data we analyze the links between mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures ...Open AccessArticle -
Childhood homelessness and adult employment: the role of education, incarceration, and welfare receipt
Published 2017This paper examines the long-run employment consequences of experiencing homelessness in childhood rather than later in life. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of disadvantaged ...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 -
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 -
Young adults gamble less when observed by peers
Published 2018The impact of peer presence on the choices made by young people is yet to be fully understood. Using an incentive compatible experiment, we investigate whether: (1) young people’s willingness to accept known and unknown ...Open AccessArticle -
University education and non-cognitive skill development
Published 2018We examine the effect of university education on students’ non-cognitive skills (NCS) using high-quality Australian longitudinal data. To isolate the skill-building effects of tertiary education, we follow the education ...Open AccessArticle -
An experimental study of adolescent behavior under peer observation: Adolescents are more impatient and inconsistent, not more risk-taking, when observed by peers
Published 2019The majority of deaths in adolescence have been attributed to “risky” behaviors (Eaton et al., 2012) and therefore could be avoided had the adolescent made a different decision. In this paper, using two laboratory experiments ...Open AccessArticle -
Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development
Published 2019We propose a household production function approach to human development that explicitly considers the role of parenting style in child rearing. Specifically, parenting style is modelled as an investment that depends not ...Open AccessArticle -
The reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status
Published 2019This paper analyzes the reciprocal lagged relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status. We find that severe depressive symptoms contribute to a 25.6% increase in subsequent non-employment rates, a 20.7% ...Open AccessArticle -
Locus of control and internal migration
Published 2019We model migration across domestic labor markets (internal migration) as the outcome of a job search process in which job seekers form subjective beliefs about the return search effort that are related to their locus of ...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 -
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 -
Exploring the role of parental engagement in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse
Published 2020We 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 ...Open AccessArticle -
The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Fertility Intentions
Published 2020Paid parental leave is an important part of family policy in OECD countries. Australia's Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme was introduced in 2011 and provides 18 weeks of leave paid at the full time minimum wage for the ...Open AccessArticle -
Economic Rationality in Youth With Emerging Mood Disorders
Published 2020Cognitive difficulties are common in persons experiencing anxiety or mood disorders. In this article, we explore the economic concept of rational decision-making in young people with emerging mood disorders by using ...Open AccessArticle -
Reducing Internet Gambling Harms Using Behavioral Science: A Stakeholder Framework
Published 2020Internet gambling provides a unique environment with design mechanics and data-driven opportunities that can impact gambling-related harms. Some elements of Internet gambling including isolation, lack of interruption, and ...Article