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homeless as a child. For women, this relationship is largely explained by the lower educational attainment and higher welfare …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their savings behavior, i.e. wealth accumulation, savings rates, and portfolio choices. Locus of control is a psychological concept that captures individuals' beliefs about the controllability of life events and is a...
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We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child … rearing is explicitly considered. Specifically, we model parenting style as an investment in human development that depends … linked to parenting style and human development through the constraints that it places on cognitive capacity. Our model finds …
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This paper analyzes the effects of 'shocks' to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the Great Recession, on children's mental well-being. The Australian experience of the Great Recession represents a unique case study as despite little change in actual unemployment...
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This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives' job...
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external locus of control. In particular, we find no significant relationship between family welfare history and young people …
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Our goal is to investigate the pathways that link welfare receipt across generations. We undertake a mediation analysis … in which we not only calculate the intergenerational correlation in welfare, but also quantify the portion of that … correlation that operates through key mechanisms. Our data come from administrative welfare records for young people (aged 23 …
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We use variation in the extent of generational persistence across social assistance payments to shed light on the factors leading to intergenerational disadvantage. Our administrative data come from the Australian social security system and provide us with detailed social assistance trajectories...
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's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management – quarantines 50 percent of welfare payments to be …
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This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual … responsibility to explain the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt. Specifically, we investigate whether 18-year olds …' views about social benefits and the drivers of social inequality depend on their families' welfare histories. We begin by …
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