Chinese households have enjoyed a rapidly developing financial market offering a wider range of investment choices than bank deposits – the traditional form of investment. Using panel data from the 2013 and 2015 China Household Finance Survey, we examine the relationship between financial...

This paper investigates the role of monetary and non-monetary incentives in choosing a teachingcareer versus the alternative of working in other jobs, using the Household Income and LabourDynamics in Australia. We find that monetary incentives and opportunity costs matter and vary bygender:...

This paper investigates the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in choosing a teaching career using data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia. We find that the opportunity costs of becoming a teacher vary by gender: women enjoy a small wage premium, whilst males...

Over the past thirty years Chinese households have enjoyed substantive increases in income and savings and witnessed a rapidly developing financial market offering investment choices and risks away from bank deposits – the traditional form of financial investment. We explore whether this...