Good day!

I am a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne, working on the topics of labor, family, gender and ageing.

My background is in economics and applied econometrics, and most of the time I do empirical research leveraging big administrative datasets. I also lead the Melbourne Institute’s AI Group.

Occasionally, I post tips and tricks for researchers using Stata, and write for the Conversation.

 

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Recent publications

• Are shorter temporary contracts worse stepping stones? (Labour Economics)

• Are sibship characteristics predictive of same sex marriage? (Journal of Sex Research)

• The impacts of a large-scale financial education intervention on retirement saving behaviors and portfolio allocation (Journal of Banking and Finance)

• Daughters and Divorce (the Economic Journal)

• Academic achievement of children in same- and different-sex-parented families (Demography)

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Recent blog posts & media pieces

• Only 1.5% of students responded to the JRG tuition fee changes (The Conversation)

• Fading signs of son preference (Oxford University Press Blog)

• Children with same-sex parents do better at school than their peers (The Conversation)

• Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons (The Economist)

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Are Australian students responsive to large changes of field-specific tuition fees? The data says "Not really!" Read more 👇

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— Jan Kabatek (@jankabatek.com) Nov 10, 2023 at 10:40 AM