School attendance should therefore be a priority for all schools, and not just those with high rates of absence or low average achievement. ...

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• 2017
• March 2017

Francis Ha Steve Mitrou Nguyen Zubrick FG HN SR BEc PhD FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development ...

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Children and adolescents spend more than one-third of their time sleeping. Yet, we know little about the causal impact of sleeping on their development. This paper is the first to exploit variation in local daily daylight duration measured on pre-determined diary dates across the same individuals through time as an instrument in an individual fixed effects regression model to draw causal estimates of sleep duration on a comprehensive set of child development indicators.  ...

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• 2024
• May 2024

This document describes the calibration of the parent/carer reported impact items developed for use in the Second Australian Child & Adolescent Survey of... ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2015
• March 2015

This report presents the evaluation findings of headspace, a service to improve the mental health and social and emotional wellbeing of young people ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

The dramatic rise in early childhood allergic diseases indicates the specific vulnerability of the immune system to early life environmental changes. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2015
• January 2015

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual characteristics. The results show that retirement leads to a statistically significant and sizable increase in the probability of making a residential move or the likelihood of becoming outright homeowners. ...

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• 2024
• March 2024

Hayley Francis Rosemary Karen Natasha Kevin Andrea Sarah Ha Helen Jon Phoebe Christian Mitrou Cahill Lombardi Pearce Runions Nathan Johnson Nguyen ...

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• Brain and Behaviour
• Life Course Centre

The burden of mental health problems among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is a major public health problem in Australia. ...

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• 2012
• September 2012

Understanding variations in risk profiles among persistently non-attending children will inform the development of absence interventions. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• February 2018