We are pleased to announce that Professor Stefanie Schurer will be visiting DIPA this January.
Stefanie is a Professor of Economics at the School of Economics, University of Sydney, Australia. Stefanie’s research interests are the economics of human development, lifecycle analysis, and econometric methods. Stefanie’s recent research examines how public policy affects people’s preferences, health, and well-being, focusing on the lens of inequality and paternalistic government policy.
Stefanie’s publications are as follows:
- Farmer, A., and Schurer, S. (2025). Human Capital, Labor Market Outcomes and Forced Separation of Indigenous People. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Editor: Klaus Zimmermann. Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6.
- Luu, B., Amy Conley Wright, Stefanie Schurer, Susan Collings, Laura Metcalfe, Susan Heward-Belle, Emma L Barrett (2025). Understanding families with multiple and complex needs in the child protection system through the lens of linked administrative data in New South Wales, Australia. Child Protection and Practice 6, 100224.
- Cobb-Clark, D., Kettlewell, N., Schurer, S., Silburn, S. (2023). The effect of quarantining welfare on school attendance in Indigenous communities. Journal of Human Resources 58 (6) 2072-2110.
- De New, S. C., Schurer, S. (2023). Survey item-response behavior as an imperfect proxy for unobserved ability: Theory and application. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 41(1), 197–212.
- Elkins, R., Schurer, S. (2017). Introducing a GP copayment in Australia: Who would carry the cost burden? Health Policy. 121(5), 543-552.
More on Stefanie’s profile and publications can be seen on her webpage: https://www.stefanie-schurer.com/
Professor Stefanie Schurer is visiting the Centre from 19 January to 30 January, 2026 nd will be sitting at Christies gate 17. She will also be presenting in the “Rett, Politikk og Velfard (RPV)” seminar series on Thursday, 22 January 2026, on “Youth who go missing from care: characteristics and risk profiles”. At the same time, she will also be a guest researcher at the NHH School of Economics.