David Ribar

For worse? Financial hardships and intra-household resource allocation among Australian couples

F Botha, DC Ribar

Journal article  |  2023  |  Economic Modelling

This article investigates differences in husbands' and wives' experiences of financial hardships. It develops and estimates a stru..

Emerging Adulthood in Australia: How is this Stage Lived?

DC Ribar, C Wong

Book Chapter  |  2022

The period during which young people are financially and residentially dependent on their parents is lengthening and extending int..

Measuring Financial Wellbeing with Self-Reported and Bank Record Data

Carole Comerton-Forde, John De New, Nicolas Salamanca, David C Ribar, Andrea Nicastro, James Ross

Journal article  |  2022  |  ECONOMIC RECORD

We develop scales of the financial well-being of customers of a major Australian bank using self-reported survey data matched to c..

Child Abuse and Neglect

Alexa Prettyman, David C Ribar

Book Chapter  |  2022

DAUGHTERS AND DIVORCE

Jan Kabatek, David C Ribar

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECONOMIC JOURNAL

Are couples with daughters more likely to divorce than couples with sons? Using Dutch registry and US survey data, we show that co..

Implications of COVID-19 labour market shocks for inequality in financial wellbeing

Ferdi Botha, John P de New, Sonja C de New, David C Ribar, Nicolas Salamanca

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS

Australia's economy abruptly entered into a recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Related labour market shocks on Austra..

Under pressure? Assessing the roles of skills and other personal resources for work-life strains

Niels-Hugo Blunch, David C Ribar, Mark Western

Journal article  |  2020  |  Review of Economics of the Household

Many working parents struggle to balance the demands of their jobs and family roles. Although we might expect that additional reso..

Four Dimensions of Quality in Australian Jobs

David C Ribar, Mark Wooden

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Economic Record

We develop and analyse comprehensive, multi‐item scales of the quality of Australian jobs, using the rich measures of job characte..

Financial Outcomes in Adolescence and Early Adulthood in Australian Longitudinal Data

John de New, David Ribar, Christopher Ryan, Clement Wong

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Australian Economic Review

This article describes and catalogues person‐specific measures of financial outcomes that are available for adolescents and young ..

The reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah A Cobb-Clark, David C Ribar

Journal article  |  2019  |  ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY

This paper analyzes the reciprocal lagged relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status. We find that severe depr..