We estimate the impact on child health of the unanticipated introduction of the Australian Baby Bonus, a $3,000 one …

Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers … on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on birth outcomes by exploiting its staggered … rollout. By changing parents' consumption patterns, the policy aims to improve child outcomes. We find no evidence of this …

We test whether adverse childhood experiences - exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health … estimated associations are significantly reduced in magnitude when controlling for physical or mental health, suggesting that … adolescent health could be one important pathway via which maltreatment affects adulthood personality. Maltreatment experiences …

suggest that households spent the windfall income on electricity and private health insurance. There is no robust evidence …We use administrative data from South Australia to study the impact of an unconditional cash transfer on child health …

the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

Worldwide, single mothers are profoundly time and income constrained, making them heavily reliant on government … and the development of their children over the past two decades in Australia. Using nationally representative longitudinal … family payments for single mothers, who compensated income loss by increasing reliance on disability pension payments, work …

physical health outcomes of the average pre-school child. This finding is strengthened by the observation that the Baby Bonus … children's skills. …

) - children's confrontation with maltreatment and household dysfunction - in shaping lifetime opportunities. However, this is the … differences in later-life earnings between children with and without neglect exposure can be fully explained by observable … protect their children is likely to be high. Our findings contribute to a wider discussion on the multidimensionality and …