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Dr

Nicolas Salamanca Acosta

Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute Of Applied Economic And Social Research
Discrimination
Stability of preferences
Measurement error
Trust
Child development
Personality
Non-classical measurement error
Parenting Style
economics
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Dr

Nicolas Salamanca Acosta

 
Division
Business And Economics
 
Primary Interest
Family Economics
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Dr

Nicolas Salamanca Acosta

 

I am working as a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (MIAESR) as part of the Social and Economic Disadvantage group. My position is funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (LCC).

I am also a Research Affiliate at IZA. I got my PhD in Economics at Maastricht University in 2015, focusing on the measurement of economic preferences and their impact on household portfolio choice.My research revolves around applied microeconomics. My primary research interest is on household economics, human capital development, and the transmission of economic disadvantage. I am also interested in the behavioral drivers of household portfolio decisions, the stability of economic preferences, discrimination and favoritism, the effect of background risk on decision-making, and non-classical measurement error.

Projects

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The Dynamics And Effects Of Parenting Style

2017 - 2018
Completed

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Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Correction to: Parenting style as an investment in human development

Deborah A Cobb-Clark, Nicolas Salamanca, Anna Zhu

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Population Economics

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Parents’ Response to Teacher Qualifications

Deborah COBB-CLARK, Nicolas Salamanca Acosta, Simon Chang

Report  |  2020

We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents’ investments in their children. Exploiting a unique, high-stake..

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Are Professors Worth It? The Value-added and Costs of Tutorial Instructors

N Salamanca Acosta, Ulf Zölitz, Jan Feld

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Human Resources

A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions— small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In..

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Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets

Nicolas Salamanca Acosta, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Raymond Montizaan

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Internal locus of control is an important personality trait strongly related to many economic outcomes. We show that the probabili..

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How People React to Pension Risk

Nicolas Salamanca Acosta, Andries de Grip, Olaf Sleijpen

Report  |  2020

We show that people exposed to greater pension risk are less likely to invest in risky assets. We exploit a reform that links peop..

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Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching

J Feld, N Salamanca, U Zölitz

Journal article  |  2019  |  Economics of Education Review

In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we f..

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Parenting style as an investment in human development

DA Cobb-Clark, N Salamanca, A Zhu

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Population Economics

We propose a household production function approach to human development that explicitly considers the role of parenting style in ..

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The Dynamic Properties of Economic Preferences

Nicolas Salamanca Acosta

Report  |  2018

The time-stability of preferences is a crucial and ubiquitous assumption in economics, yet to date there is no method to test its ..

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Intergenerational Disadvantage: Learning about Equal Opportunity from Social Assistance Receipt

Deborah COBB-CLARK, Sarah Dahmann, Nicolas Salamanca Acosta, Anna Zhu

Report  |  2017

We use variation in the extent of generational persistence across social assistance payments to shed light on the factors leading ..

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Introduction

Nicolas Salamanca, Anna Zhu

Book Chapter  |  2017  |  The Australian Economic Review

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A Short Note on Discrimination and Favoritism in the Labor Market

N SALAMANCA ACOSTA, J Feld

Journal article  |  2017  |  The B.E Journal of Theoretical Economics

We extend Becker’s model of discrimination by allowing firms to have discriminatory and favoring preferences simultaneously. We dr..

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Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination

J Feld, N Salamanca, DS Hamermesh

Journal article  |  2016  |  Economic Journal

The discrimination literature treats outcomes as relative. But does a differential arise because agents discriminate against other..

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Applied Economics
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2013

Maastricht GSBE Visiting Scholar grant

Maastricht University (Netherlands)
2013

Rotman ICPM Research grant

Rotman ICPM (Canada)
2010

METEOR PhD grant

METEOR (Netherlands)
2009

KNAW Research Assistantship grant

KNAW (Netherlands)
2008

Colfuturo Scholarship Program for Graduate Studies

Colfuturo (Colombia)

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Research Fellow

Melbourne Institute Of Applied Economic And Social Research

Research Affiliate

Institute of labor Economics (IZA)

Research Fellow

ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (LCC)

Education

PhD in Economics

Maastricht University

MSc in Econometrics

Maastricht University

MSc in Financial Economics

Maastricht University

BSc in Economics

University of the Andes

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