Life Course Centre: Recent submissions
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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Published 2021We identify the causal impact of quarantining welfare payments on Aboriginal children’s school attendance by exploiting exogenous variation in its rollout across communities. We find that income quarantining reduced ...Article -
Recurring pain, mental health problems and sick leave in Australia
Published 2021A substantial proportion of Australians report recurring pain and mental health problems, but their separate and joint contributions to sick leave use has not been examined. This study examines the interaction of pain and ...Article -
The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Fertility Intentions
Published 2020Paid parental leave is an important part of family policy in OECD countries. Australia's Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme was introduced in 2011 and provides 18 weeks of leave paid at the full time minimum wage for the ...Open AccessArticle -
Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development
Published 2019We propose a household production function approach to human development that explicitly considers the role of parenting style in child rearing. Specifically, parenting style is modelled as an investment that depends not ...Open AccessArticle -
Mental health and productivity at work: Does what you do matter?
Published 2017Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers’ reduced productivity. Using nationally representative panel data we analyze the links between mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures ...Open AccessArticle