In this paper we report on the trade-offs that 1,068 Australian university students make between absolute income and … the rank of that income in hypothetical income distributions. We find that income rank matters independently of absolute … income, with greater weight given to rank by males, migrants, and individuals from wealthy families. Rank …

Great Recession, on children's mental well-being. The Australian experience of the Great Recession represents a unique case … draw on and link data from multiple sources, including a longitudinal cohort study of children, a consumer sentiment survey …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …