Health:
Collaborations with Headspace, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the LHD Ketamine Clinic, the Australian Twin Registry, and the International Centre for Responsible Gambling have enabled me to make significant contributions to research on mental health, gambling addiction, obesity, and the genetic determinants of decision-making.
Mental health
Weinrabe A., Chung H., Tymula A., Tranand J., Hickie I. (2020) Economic Rationality in Young People with Emerging Mood Disorder, Journal of Neuroscience, Economics, and Psychology
Responsible gambling
Heirene R., Cobb-Clark D., Tymula A., Santos T., and Gainsbury S. (2025) Non Response Bias in Gambling Survey, International Gambling Studies
Santos T., Heirene R., Cobb-Clark D., Tymula A., Gainsbury S. (2025) Electronic Gaming Machine Consumers’ Understanding of Past & Future Spending: Associations with Risk, Impulsivity, Self-Control, & Problematic Gambling, Journal of Gambling Studies
Obesity
Pastore C., Schurer S., Tymula A., Fuller N, Caterson I. (2023) Economic Preferences and Obesity: Evidence from a Clinical Lab-in-Field Experiment, Health Economics, 32:2147-2167
Genetic determinants of decision making
Kettlewell N., Tymula, A. and Yoo H. (2023) The heritability of economic preferences, revision requested from Management Science
Kettlewell N. and Tymula A. (2025) Heritability of different types of overconfidence, Journal of the Economic Science Association
Kettlewell N. and Tymula A. (2024) Heritability across different domains of trust, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 219:549-563
Education:
Thanks to a very talented PhD student Xueting Wang, we collaborated with four high schools in China to better understand impatience and risk taking in adolescence:
Cheung S. L., Tymula A., Wang X. (2022) Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards: Evidence from Chinese Teenagers, Experimental Economics, 25: 1202–1233
I wrote a collection of papers on risk-taking and impatience in adolescence, some of the findings are summarised in these non-academic publications.
I am particularly fond of our publication in the Frontiers for Young Minds, a journal where children are the reviewers. We wrote this paper for the inaugural issue promoted at the the 2014 USA Science and Engineering Festival. It was featured on the Scientific American Blog Network.
Arts:
I collaborated with two iconic arts institutions to better understand motives for giving and educate visitors about their risk-taking.
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
The Marian Koshland Science Museum of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
created the Life Lab exhibit on decision-making and ageing that was on display May 2012 – September 2018