Life Course Centre Chief Investigator Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark has been honoured with the Distinguished Fellow Award by the Economic Society of Australia.
Deborah, a Professor of Economics at The University of Sydney, was presented with the award at the 2018 Australian Conference of Economists Gala Dinner in Canberra.
“I am thrilled to be made a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society. It is a great honour,” Deborah said.
According to the award citation, Deborah is among the top 25 Australian academic economists, the second highest ranked female economist working in Australia, and has made a substantial contribution to understanding how social policy affects 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 and is a former co-editor of the Journal of Population Economics.
In addition to her academic work, Deborah has also made a significant contribution to the Australian economics community. She has been a mentor at the Women in Economics Retreat and had provided substantial support to the Women in Economics Network.
Also honoured at the Economic Society of Australia 2018 awards were Life Course Centre Associate Investigator Chris Ryan and Life Course Centre Research Fellow Cain Polidano from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
Cain and Chris were the inaugural joint winners of the Trevor Swan Prize for the most important contribution to Australian economic policy published in The Economic Record in 2016-2017 for their 2017 paper: “What Happens to Students with Low Reading Proficiency at 15? Evidence from Australia.”
You can view their paper here.