Deborah Cobb-Clark is Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney. She is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course; and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Professor Cobb-Clark earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan (1990). Prior to joining the University of Sydney, she was the Ronald Henderson Professor and Director of the Melbourne Institute at the University of Melbourne. She has also held positions at the US Labor Department, Illinois State University, and the Australian National University where she was the founding director of The Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research (SPEAR) Centre.

Her research agenda centres on the effect of social policy on labour market outcomes including immigration, sexual and racial harassment, health, old-age support, education and youth transitions. She has published more than four dozen academic articles in leading international journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Labour Economics. She is a former co-editor of the Journal of Population Economics.

Professor Cobb-Clark joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2000 and served as Program Coordinator of IZA’s research area on "Gender and Family Economics".

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3309
published in: Australian Economic Review, 2008, 41 (2), 160-176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3304
published in: Economic Record, 2009, 85(268), 46-59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2772
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 11 (4), 989-1007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2647
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (5), 782-792
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2449
published in: Economic Record, 2009, 85(269), 146-163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1948
published in: Social Science Quarterly, 2006, 87 (5), 1344-1363
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1773
published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84(267), 466-485
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1636
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (3), 713-738
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1624
published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (1), 59-82
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