Although better income, wealth and health outcomes have been predicted by human capital theory for better educated people, increasingly international and Australian empirical evidence has found a negative relationship between higher education and subjective wellbeing instead, particularly for...

The paper is a collection of three reports on the costs of children in Australian families: 'The estimated costs of children in Australian families in 2005-06'; 'Updated costs of children using Australian budget standards; and 'Costs of children and equivalence scales: a review of methodological...