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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 Bilingual Gap in Children’s Language, Emotional and Pro-social Development
Published 2021In 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 ...Article -
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 -
Choosers Adapt Value Coding to the Environment, But Do Not Attain Efficiency
Published 2023We investigate how human choosers adapt their value encoding strategy to the statistics of the choice environment. Specifically, we ask whether the human value encoding mechanism exhibits divisive normalization only in the ...Open AccessConference paper -
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 -
Continuity of mental health care during the transition from prison to the community following brief periods of imprisonment
Published 2022Purpose: The prison-to-community transition period is one of high risk and need, particularly for those with mental illness. Some individuals cycle in and out of prison for short periods with little opportunity for mental ...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 -
Distress and career regret in doctors: are we really that different to other professions?
Published 2023Health departments should support the professional training they require and show that their employees are valuedOpen 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 -
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 -
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 -
The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Published 2021We identify the causal impact of quarantining welfare payments on Aboriginal children’s school attendance by exploiting exogenous variation in its rollout across communities. We find that income quarantining reduced ...Article -
Expected subjective value theory (ESVT): A representation of decision under risk and certainty.
Published 2023We present a descriptive model of choice derived from neuroscientific models of efficient value representation in the brain. Our basic model, a special case of Expected Utility Theory, can capture a number of behaviors ...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 -
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 -
Factors influencing the adoption of pre-commitment devices for online gambling
Published 2024Deposit limits are a voluntary pre-commitment device that allow gambling customers to pre-select the amount of money they want to be able to deposit into their gambling accounts, representing an external aid to self-control. ...EmbargoedArticle -
Gender differences in the lifecycle benefits of compulsory schooling policies
Published 2021We estimate the lifecycle benefits of policies that raise the minimum school leaving age (MSLA). Using a difference-in-differences method, we estimate the causal impact of two adjacent Australian state reforms that extended ...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 -
Inequality in personality over the life cycle
Published 2021We document gender and socioeconomic inequalities in personality over the life cycle (age 18–75), using the Big Five 2 (BFI-2) inventory linked to administrative data on a large Danish population. We estimate life-cycle ...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