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The Medical Care Costs of Mood Disorders : A Coarsened Exact Matching Approach

Schurer, Stefanie - 2015

This paper is the first to use the method of coarsened exact matching (CEM) to estimate the impact of mood disorders on medical care costs in order to address the endogeneity of mood disorders. Models are estimated using restricted-use, general practice patient records data from New Zealand for...

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians

Doyle, Mary-Alice - 2020

Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers …

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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2018

We analyze the impact of a recent initiative by the Australian Government to reduce disadvantage and improve children's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management – quarantines 50 percent of welfare payments to be spent on priority goods (e.g., food, housing,...

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Two Economists' Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, i.e. locus of control, in order to directly assess the...

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Getting Stuck in the Blues : Persistence of Mental Health Problems in Australia

Roy, John Christopher - 2013

Australia and system GMM-IV and correlated random effects approaches are applied to separate true from spurious state dependence …

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Healthy Habits : The Connection between Diet, Exercise, and Locus of Control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their decisions to exercise regularly, eat well, drink moderately, and avoid tobacco. Our primary goal is to assess the relative importance of the alternative pathways that potentially link locus of control to healthy...

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Lives Saved During Economic Downturns : Evidence from Australia

Atalay, Kadir; Edwards, Rebecca; Schurer, Stefanie; … - 2021

.We estimate the relationship between unemployment, a widely accepted proxy for economic climate, and mortality in Australia, a … vehicle transport accidents.Our estimates imply 425 fewer deaths if Reserve Bank of Australia expectations of a doubling of … universal health care in Australia in 1984. Our results suggest that universal health care may insulate individuals from the …

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One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors

Schurer, Stefanie - 2012

Using data from a new longitudinal survey of doctors from Australia, the authors test whether observed large gender …

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Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health Across Three Generations

Johnston, David W. - 2011

Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in nature, and have an established hereditary component. The extent to which mental illness runs in...

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Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters

Johnston, David W. - 2012

Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children's later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that...

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