Stefanie Schurer

Biographic Data

ID916385
NAMEStefanie Schurer
GIVEN NAMESStefanie
FAMILY NAMESchurer
SIGNATURESCHURER S
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-1103-5239
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS68
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Survey Response Behavior as a Proxy for Unobserved Ability

    Sonja C De New, Stefanie SchurerARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…2023

    An emerging literature is experimenting with using survey response behavior as a proxy for hard-to-measure abilities. We contribute to this literature by formalizing this idea and evaluating its benefits and risks. Using a standard and nationally representative survey from Australia, we demonstrate that the survey item-response rate (SIRR), a straightforward summary measure of response behavior, varies more with cognitive than with noncognitive a…

  • Quantifying the human impact of Melbourne's 111-day hard lockdown experiment on the adult population

    Open AccessStefanie Schurer, Kadir Atalay et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023References: 52

    Lockdown was used worldwide to mitigate the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and was the cornerstone non-pharmaceutical intervention of zero-COVID strategies. Many previous impact evaluations of lockdowns are unreliable because lockdowns co-occurred with severe coronavirus disease related health and financial insecurities. This was not the case in Melbourne's 111-day lockdown, which left other Australian jurisdictions una…

  • First-in-their-family students at university

    Open AccessRebecca Edwards, Rachael Gibson et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2022

  • Exploring the role of parental engagement in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse

    Open AccessRosemary Elkins, Stefanie SchurerARTICLEJournal of Population Economics2020Cited by: 6References: 17

  • The stability of personality traits in adolescence and young adulthood

    Open AccessRosemary K Elkins, Rosemary Elkins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Psychology2017Cited by: 10References: 80

  • Healthy habits

    Open AccessDeborah A Cobb-Clark, Deborah A Cobb‐clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Behavior &…2014

  • Two Economists’ Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control

    Open AccessDeborah A Cobb‐clark, Stefanie SchurerARTICLEThe Economic Journal2013Cited by: 52References: 48

    The authors are grateful for helpful comments from Angela Duckworth, Shelly Lundberg, Steven Stillman, and participants of the 2010 IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting, of the 2011 Labour Econometrics Workshop, of the 2012 Society of Labor Economists' meeting, and of a brown-bag seminar at the Positive Psychology Centre, University of Pennsylvania (2012), as well as for financial support from an Australian Research Council Discovery Programme Grant (D…

  • The stability of big-five personality traits

    Open AccessDeborah A Cobb-Clark, Deborah A Cobb‐clark et al.ARTICLEEconomics Letters2012