Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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