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        The effects of sleep duration on child health and development

        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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        Measuring Severity of Mental Disorders with the Young Minds Matter: Parent/Carer-Reported Impact Items

        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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        Is headspace making a difference to young people’s lives?

        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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        Nutritional approaches for the primary prevention of allergic disease: An update

        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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        Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality - A causal investigation

        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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        LCC Flagship in Educational Equity. Using integrated administrative data to improve educational equity over the life course. UWA component - Evaluation of the Adult Migrant English Program

        Francis Ha Mitrou Nguyen FG HN BEc PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development and Community Wellbeing Senior Research Fellow 08 6319 1499 francis.mitrou@telethonkids.org.au Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, ...

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        Trends in sugar supply and consumption in Australia: is there an Australian Paradox?

        High consumption of refined carbohydrate, in particular sugar, has been identified as a possible contributory factor in greater risk of excess weight gain. ...

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        Multigenerational disadvantage in Australia

        Francis Steve Mitrou Zubrick FG SR BEc FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development and Community Wellbeing Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow 08 6319 1499 08 6319 1409 francis.mitrou@telethonkids.org.au ...

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        Socioeconomic disparities in the mental health of Indigenous children in Western Australia

        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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        Associations Between Developmental Risk Profiles, Mental Disorders, and Student Absences Among Primary and Secondary Students in Australia

        This study assessed if the association between mental disorders and higher student absences varies across different profiles of risk factors, and estimated the proportion of student absences associated with mental disorders. Data included responses from a nationally representative Australian survey of child and adolescent mental health. ...

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        Not in employment, education or training (NEET); more than a youth policy issue

        Australians who are Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and receive income support span a wide spectrum of working ages. Australian research has concentrated on NEETs aged 15-29 years, in line with international standards. This paper investigates extending the NEET concept to include all working age persons 15-64 years and the value added to welfare policy through analysis of a new linked dataset. ...

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        Sugar sweetened beverage consumption by Australian children: Implications for public health strategy

        High consumption of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been linked to unhealthy weight gain and nutrition related chronic disease. ...

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