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 and Community Wellbeing Senior Research Fellow Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow 08 6319 1499 08 ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• The ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course

To estimate the prevalence, distribution, and co-occurrence of mental ill-health and substance use among gender and sexuality diverse young people relative to their cisgender and heterosexual peers in Australia using population-level, nationally representative data. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2024
• July 2024

A national collaboration was formed to provide longitudinal collection of T1D patient characteristics and outcomes, the Australasian Diabetes Data Network ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• August 2016

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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• Reports and Findings
• 2024
• March 2024

While the CFS findings suggest the combined whole-school response to the mediators was somewhat effective, the study wasn't able to determine the relative... ...

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• 2015
• May 2015

Studies on health insurance coverage often rely on measures self-reported by respondents, but the accuracy of such measures has not been thoroughly validated. This paper is the first to use linked Australian National Health Survey and administrative population tax data to explore the accuracy of self-reported private health insurance (PHI) coverage in survey data. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• August 2023

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 and Community Wellbeing Senior Research Fellow Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow 08 6319 1499 08 ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Projects
• The ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course

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

With adequate support, children newly diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes can be safely managed at home following practical skills training ...

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• 2017
• November 2017

The reciprocal relationship between psychiatric and substance use disorders is well-known, yet it remains largely unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying sources of plausibly exogenous variations in mental health, and a nationally representative panel dataset from Australia to present robust evidence on the causal impact of mental distress on cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking behaviours. ...

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• 2023
• August 2023

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very young ages and widen overtime. ...

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• 2022
• August 2022

This study explores the differential impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep by children and their parents. We use nationally representative data with time use indicators objectively measured on multiple occasions for more than 1,100 child-parent pairs, coupled with daily meteorological data. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2021
• July 2021