Select Publications
Books
, 2002, Women`s Financial Independence: Australia in the 1980s and 1990s, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney
, 1998, Income, incentives and the growth of means testing in Hungary, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney
, 1998, The arithmetic of tax and social security reform: a user`s guide to microsimulation methods and analysis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Book Chapters
, 2009, 'Family income as a protective factor for child outcomes?', in Rummery K; Greener I; Holden C (ed.), Social Policy Review 21, The Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 167 - 198, http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847423733
, 2006, 'Poverty reduction strategies and wellbeing in Albania and Former Yugoslavia', in Poverty and Social Deprivation in the Mediterranean Trends, Policies and Welfare Prospects in the New Millennium, Zed Books, London, pp. 166 - 187
, 2000, 'Poverty in transition economies: an introduction to the issues', in Hutton S; Redmond G (ed.), Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition: Poverty in Transition Economies, Routledge Press, London, pp. 1 - 13
, 1999, 'Income sharing and income distribution', in ABS (ed.), Australian Social Trends, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, pp. 129 - 133
Journal articles
, 2024, 'Who excludes? Young People's Experience of Social Exclusion', Journal of Social Policy, 53, pp. 236 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000046
, 2024, 'Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development', Social Science and Medicine, 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116430
, 2023, 'The Relationship Between Financial Hardships and the Development of Risk-Taking Behaviors: The Protective Role of Extracurricular Activities', Youth and Society, 55, pp. 895 - 923, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X221127724
, 2022, 'The Association between Parental Educational Expectations and School Functioning among Young People with Disabilities: A Longitudinal Investigation', Exceptional Children, 89, pp. 60 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00144029221087392
, 2020, 'Are Young Carers Less Engaged in School than Non-Carers? Evidence from a Representative Australian Study', Child Indicators Research, 13, pp. 33 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-019-09647-1
, 2019, 'Material deprivation and capability deprivation in the midst of affluence: The case of young people in Australia', Children and Youth Services Review, 97, pp. 36 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.06.067
, 2019, 'Troubled kids? Locational disadvantage, opportunity structures and social exclusion', Children's Geographies, 17, pp. 76 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2018.1487031
, 2019, 'Driving Precision Policy Responses to Child Health and Developmental Inequities', Health Equity, 3, pp. 489 - 494, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2019.0045
, 2018, 'The impact of multidimensional disadvantage over childhood on developmental outcomes in Australia', International Journal of Epidemiology, 47, pp. 1485 - 1496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyy087
, 2018, 'More than a snapshot in time: Pathways of disadvantage over childhood', International Journal of Epidemiology, 47, pp. 1307 - 1316, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyy086
, 2018, 'Understanding child disadvantage from a social determinants perspective', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 72, pp. 223 - 229, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-209036
, 2017, 'Expanding Children's Agency: Cases of Young People Experiencing Economic Adversity', Children and Society, 31, pp. 315 - 329, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/chso.12224
, 2014, 'Filling in the details – significant events and economic disadvantage among young people in Australia.', Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 60, pp. 552 - 567
, 2013, 'How has the relationship between parental education and child outcomes changed in Australia since the 1980s?', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 48, pp. 395 - 413, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1839-4655.2013.tb00290.x
, 2011, 'Making Prevention Work in Human Services for Children and Youth', Drawing Board-An Australian Review of Public Affairs, 10, pp. article 2, http://www.australianreview.net/
, 2011, 'Middle Class Welfare in Australia: How has the Distribution of Cash Benefits changed since the 1980s?', Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 14, pp. 81 - 102, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=556711210676386;res=IELBUS
, 2010, 'Children's agency and the welfare state: Policy priorities and contradictions in Australia and the UK', Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research, 17, pp. 470 - 484, http://chd.sagepub.com/content/17/4/470.full.pdf+html
, 2009, 'Review of the Circumstances Among Children in Immigrant Families in Australia', , http://dx.doi.org/10.18356/bea97a51-en
, 2009, 'Alcohol and other drug related deaths among young people in CIS countries: Proximal and distal causes and implications for policy', International Journal of Drug Policy, 20, pp. 38 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2007.10.005
, 2009, 'Children as actors: how does the child perspectives literature treat agency in the context of poverty', Social Policy and Society, 8, pp. 541 - 550, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S147474640999011X
, 2009, 'Investment in early childhood in Australia: International comparisons and recent trends', Health Sociology Review, 18, pp. 94 - 107
, 2009, 'Poverty and deprivation among children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia', International Journal of Social Welfare, 18, pp. 225 - 236
, 2009, 'What can data on educational outcomes reveal regarding Australian childrens right to develop to their fullest potential', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 20, pp. 35 - 58, http://www.orgmanagement.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=_ResearchCentre_EconomicLabourRelationsReview
, 2008, 'Child poverty and child rights: edging towards a definition', Journal of children and poverty, 14, pp. 63 - 82
, 2008, 'Women`s incomes', Australian Social Trends, pp. 153 - 157
, 2007, 'Infant mortality in Armenia 1992-2003: a comment', Economics and Human Biology, 5, pp. 350 - 354
, 2005, 'How high is infant mortality in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States?', Population Studies - a Journal of Demography, 59, pp. 39 - 54
, 2001, 'Employment Polarisation and Inequality in the UK and Hungary', Cambridge Journal of Economics, pp. 467 - 480
, 2001, 'Income Inequality in Early Transition: The Case of Hungary 1987 - 1996', Journal of Comparative Economics, pp. 40 - 65
, 2000, 'The Hand of History and the Equity-Legitimacy Nexus', Review of Income and Wealth, 2, pp. 249 - 257
, 1999, 'Income, incentives and the growth of means-testing in Hungary', Fiscal Studies, 20, pp. 77 - 99
Conference Papers
, 2014, 'Intergenerational mobility: new evidence from LSAY data', in 22nd National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference ‘No Frills’: refereed papers, NCVER, Mooloolaba, Queensland, pp. 68 - 75, presented at
, 2007, 'Children¿s agency and the welfare state policy priorities and contradictions in Australia and the UK', in 6th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, University of New South Wales, presented at
, 2006, 'Child poverty and child rights: edging towards a definition', in 5th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, University of New South Wales, presented at
Conference Presentations
, 2008, 'Migrant Children in Australia', presented at ACWA conference, 18 August 2008
, 2007, 'Wealth as a protective factor for child outcomes', presented at Longitudinal Study of Australian Children conference, Melbourne, 03 December 2007 - 04 December 2007
, 2007, 'Brain Malleability and public investment in the early years', presented at Australian Social Policy Conference 2007, UNSW, Sydney
Reports
, 2012, Making a difference: building on young people’s experiences of economic adversity (final report), 6/2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28132
, 2010, Conceptualisation of social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people, and policy implications, Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra, http://www.aracy.org.au/index.cfm?pageName=Social_and_emotional_wellbeing_indi
, 2008, Maternity Leave and Child Outcomes, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
, 2008, Service Needs of Residents in Private Residential Services in Queensland Summary report, Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney, 19/08, http://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/media/File/Report19_08_Service_Needs_Private_Residents.pdf
, 2007, Wealth as a Protective Factor for Child Outcomes, Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Final Report