Nicolas Salamanca Acosta

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..

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..

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

Parents’ Response to Teacher Qualifications

Simon Chang, Deborah COBB-CLARK, Nicolas Salamanca Acosta

Report  |  2020

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

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

N Salamanca Acosta, Ulf Zölitz, Jan Feld

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Human Resources

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

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..

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..

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 ..

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 ..

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 ..