This report investigates the effects of family background on men’s and women’s labour force participation and on the number of hours that they work. It uses the largest dataset ever brought to bear on this topic in Australia, the combined set of 13 IsssA surveys conducted between 1984-2001...

This paper examines the sources of parental divorce in Australia using respondents' retrospective reports of their parents' behavior, which allows us to look back as far as the early years of the 20th century. The data are from a pooled series of representative national samples of Australia...

Do conceptions of just rewards vary with economic development? To investigate this question we use the 1999-2000 "Inequality-III" round of the International Social Science Project together with other data in the World Inequality Study. There are 30 countries and 19 568 individual respondents in...

Parental divorce imposes a small but significant educational disadvantage on American children. Does this generalize across nations and over time? We analyze representative national samples from Australia (n=29,443) and Canada (n=28,266), together with US General Social Survey data (n=32,380)....