Publications in Economics 

Note: * with Honours/Master/PhD student

[33] de Gendre, A. Lynch, J., Meunier, A., Pilkington, R., Schurer, S. (2026).  Child Health and Parental Responses to an Unconditional Cash Transfer at Birth. 🏋️ Requested revision resubmitted. The Review  of Economics & Statistics. 

[32] Schurer, S., Tymula, A., Wang, W., Fuller, N.,  Caterson, I. (2026). Impatience and present bias do not predict weight loss in obesity: Evidence from lab-in-field and nationally representative data. 🏋️  Requested revision resubmitted.  Health Economics.

[31] *Doyle, M.A., Guthridge, S., Schurer, S. (2026). Income and immunity: The consequences of social security administration reform on childhood infection risk. Journal of Health Economics. Volume 108, July 2026, 103153 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2026.103153 

[30] Cobb-Clark, D., Kettlewell, N., Schurer, S., Silburn, S. (2023). The effect of quarantining welfare on school attendance in Indigenous communities. Journal of Human Resources 58 (6) 2072-2110.

[29] Schurer, S., Atalay, K., Glozier, N., Vera-Toscano, E., Wooden, M. (2023). Quantifying the human impact of Melbourne's 111-day hard lockdown experiment on the adult population. Nature Human Behaviour 7, 1652-1666. 

[28] De New,  S. C., Schurer, S. (2023). Survey item-response behavior as an imperfect proxy for unobserved ability: Theory and application. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 41(1), 197–212.

[27] *Pastore, C., Schurer, S., Tymula, A., Fuller, N., Caterson, I. (2023). Economic preferences and obesity: Evidence from a clinical lab-in-field study. Health Economics  32(9): 2147-2167. doi: 10.1002/hec.4721

[26] *Doyle, M.A., Schurer, S., Silburn, S. (2022). Unintended consequences of welfare reform: evidence from birth outcomes of Aboriginal Australians. Journal of Health Economics 84, 102618. EALE 2019 Best Poster Award (September 2019, Uppsala).

[25] *Edwards, R., Gibson, R., Harmon, C., Schurer, S. (2022). First in their families at university: Can non-cognitive skills compensate for social origin?  Economics of Education Review 91, 102318.

[24] Nejad, M., Schurer, S. (2022). Cognitive and non-cognitive abilities of immigrants: New perspectives on migrant quality from a selective immigration country. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 203, 107-124.

[23] *De New , S. C., Schurer, S., Sulzmaier, D. (2021). Gender differences in the lifecycle benefits of compulsory schooling policies. European Economic Review 140: 103910.

[22] Gensowski, M., Gørtz, M., Schurer, S. (2021). Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 184, 46-77.

[21] Atalay, K., Edwards, R., Schurer, S., Ubilava, D. (2021). Lives saved from economic downturn: Evidence from Australia. Health Economics. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.4394

[20] *Elkins, R., Schurer, S. (2020). Exploring the role of parental engagement in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse. Journal of Population Economics 33(3), 957-1004.

[19] *Schurer, S., Trajkovski, K., Hariharan, T. (2019). Understanding the mechanisms through which adverse childhood experiences affect lifetime economic outcomes. Labour Economics 61, December, 101743. 

[18] *Kassenboehmer, S., Leung, F. Schurer, S. (2018). University education and non-cognitive skill development. Oxford Economic Papers, 70(2), 538–562.  

[17] Schurer, S., Nutton, G., McKenzie, J., Su, J., Silburn, S. (2018). Preschool participation, school attendance and academic achievement. Early Pathways to School Learning Lessons from the NT data linkage study, (pp. 111-128).

[16] Fletcher, J., Schurer, S. (2017). Origins of adulthood personality: The role of adverse childhood experiences. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 17(2).    

[15] *Elkins, R., Kassenboehmer, Schurer, S. (2017). The stability of personality traits during adolescence and young adulthood. Journal of Economic Psychology 60, 37-52. 

[14] Schurer, S. (2017). Bouncing back from health shocks: Locus of control and labour supply. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 133, 1-20. [PhD Chapter #2]

[13] *Schurer, S., Kuehnle, D., Scott, A., Cheng, T.  (2016). A man's blessing or a woman's curse? The family-earnings gap of doctors. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 55(3), 385-414.

[12] *Schurer, S., Alspach, M., MacRae, J., Martin, G. (2016). The medical cost of mood disorders: A coarsened exact matching approach. The Economic Record 92(296), 81-93.

[11] Schurer, S. (2015). Lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of risk preferences. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 119, 482-495.

[10] Cobb-Clark, D., Kassenboehmer, S., Schurer, S. (2014). Healthy habits: What explains the connection between diet, exercise, and locus of control? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 98, 1-28. 

[9] Johnston, D., Schurer, S., Shields, M. (2014). Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters. Oxford Economic Papers 66(3), 631-659.

[8] Schurer, S., Shields, M., Jones, A.M. (2014).  Socioeconomic inequalities in bodily pain over the lifecycle: Longitudinal evidence from Australia, Britain and Germany. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 177(4), 783-806.

[7] Cobb-Clark, D., Schurer, S. (2013). Two economists' musings on the stability of locus of control. The Economic Journal 123(570), F358-F400.

[6] Johnston, D., Schurer, S., Shields, M. (2013). Exploring the intergenerational persistence of mental health: Evidence from three generations. Journal of Health Economics 32(6), 1077–1089. 

[5] *Roy, J., Schurer, S. (2013). Getting stuck in the blues: The persistence of depression in Australia. Health Economics 22(9), 1139-1157. 

[4] Cobb-Clark, D., Schurer, S. (2012). The stability of the Big-Five personality traits. Economics Letters 115(1), 11-15.

[3] Jones, A.M., Schurer, S. (2011). How does heterogeneity shape the socioeconomic gradient in health satisfaction. Journal of Applied Econometrics 26(4), 549 – 714. [PhD Chapter #1]

[2] Scott, A., Schurer, S., Jensen, P., Sivey, P. (2009). The effects of an incentive program on quality of care in diabetes management. Health Economics 18(9), 1091-1108.

[1] Karanasos, M., Schurer, S. (2008). Is the relationship between inflation and its uncertainty linear? German Economic Review 9, 265-286. [Published during PhD training]