Publications and presentations
Government reports
Australian Communications and Media Authority 2009, Use of electronic media and communications: early childhood to teenage years—findings from Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (3 to 4 and 7 to 8 years), and media and communications in Australian families (8 to 17 year olds), 2007, Australian Media and Communications Authority, Canberra.
Australian Institute of Family Studies 2010, The best start: supporting happy, healthy childhoods, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2009, A picture of Australia’s children 2009, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra.
Publications
Baxter, J 2009a, Parental time with children: do job characteristics make a difference?, Research Policy Paper no. 44, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne.
Baxter, J 2009b, ‘Mother’s timing of return to work by leave use and pre-birth job characteristic’, Journal of Family Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 153-66.
Baxter, J 2010, An exploration of the timing and nature of parental time with 4-5 year olds using Australian children’s time use data, Research Paper no. 45, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne.
Baxter, J, Cooklin, AR & Smith, J 2009, ‘Which mothers wean their babies prematurely from full breastfeeding?: An Australian cohort study’, Acta Paediatrica, vol. 98, no. 8, pp. 1274-77.
Brennan, D 2009, ‘Australia: the difficult birth of paid maternity leave’, in S Kamerman & P Moss (eds), The politics of parental leave policies: children, parenting, gender and the labour market, The Policy Press, Bristol, p. 15.
Blakemore, T, Strazdins, L & Gibbings, J 2009, ‘Measuring family socioeconomic position’, Australian Social Policy, vol. 8, pp.121-68.
Bowes, J & Race, R (eds) 2009, Research on children, families and communities, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne.
Brown, JE, Broom, DH, Nicholson, JM & Bittman, M 2010, ‘Do working mothers raise couch potato kids? Maternal employment and children’s lifestyle behaviours and weight in early childhood’, Social Science & Medicine, vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 1816-24.
Davis, E, Sawyer, MG, Lo, SK, Priest, N & Wake, M 2010, ‘Socioeconomic risk factors for mental health problems in 4-5-year-old children: Australian population study’, Academic Pediatrics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 41-47.
Edwards, B & Bromfield, LM 2010 ‘Neighbourhood influences on young children’s emotional and behavioural problems’, Family Matters, vol. 84, pp. 7-19.
Edwards, B, Baxter, J, Smart, D, Sanson, A & Hayes, A 2009, ‘Financial disadvantage and children’s school readiness’, Family Matters, vol. 83, pp. 23-31.
Emerson, E & Einfield, S 2010, ‘Emotional and behavioural difficulties in young children with and without development delay: a bi-national perspective’, Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, vol. 51, pp. 583-93.
Emerson, E & Robertson, J 2010, ‘Obesity in young children with intellectual disabilities or borderline intellectual functioning’, International Journal of Paediatric Obesity, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 320-26.
Emerson, E, Einfield, S & Stancliffe, RJ 2010, ‘The mental health of young children with intellectual disabilities or borderline intellectual functioning’, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 579-87.
Gray, M & Smart, D 2009, ‘Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children: a valuable new data source for economists’, Australian Economic Review, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 367-76.
Harrison, LJ & McLeod, S 2010, ‘Risk and protective factors associated with speech and language impairment in a nationally representative sample of 4- to 5-year-old children’, Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 508-29.
Harrison, LJ, McLeod, S, Berthelsen, D & Walker, S 2009, ‘Literacy, numeracy, and learning in school-aged children identified as having speech and language impairment in early childhood’, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 329-403.
Harrison, L, Ungerer, J, Smith, G, Zubrick, S & Wise, S with Press, F, Waniganayake, M & The LSAC Research Consortium 2010, Child care and early education in Australia, Social Policy Research Paper no. 40, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Australia.
Khanam, R, Hong Son, N & Connelly, LB 2009, ‘Child health and the income gradient: evidence from Australia’, The Journal of Health Economics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 805-17.
McLeod, S & Harrison, LJ 2009, ‘Epidemiolology of speech and language impairment in a nationally representative sample of 4- to 5 year-old children’, Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 1213-29.
Ou, L, Chen, J & Hillman, K 2010, ‘Health service utilisation disparities between English speaking and non-English speaking background Australian infants’, BMC Public Health, vol. 10, p. 182.
Ou, L, Chen, J, Hillman, K & Eastwood, J 2010, ‘The comparison of health status and health services utilisation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous infants in Australia’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 50-56.
Renda, J, Baxter, J & Alexander, M 2009, ‘Exploring the work-family policies mothers say would help after the birth of a child’, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 65-87.
Rutherford, L, Bittman, M & Biron, D 2010, Young children and the media: a discussion paper, Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth, Melbourne.
Sanson, A, Hawkins, MT, Mission, S & The LSAC Consortium 2010, ‘The development and validation of Australian indices of child development—Part I: Conceptualisation and development’, Child Indicators Research, vol. 3, pp. 293-312.
Sanson, A, Hawkins, MT, Mission, S & The LSAC Consortium 2010, ‘The development and validation of Australian indices of child development—Part II: Validity support’, Child Indicators Research, vol. 3, pp. 293-312.
Strazdins, L, Shipley, M, Clements, M, Obrien, LV & Broom, DH 2010, ‘Job quality and equality: parents’ jobs and children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties’, Social Science and Medicine, vol. 70, no. 12, pp. 2052-60.
Walker, S & Berthelsen, D 2010, ‘Social inequalities and parent involvement in children’s education in the early years of school’, in V Green & S Charrington (eds), Developing diversity: an international exploration of issues in diversity in education, Nova Science Publishers, pp. 139-49.
Yamachi, C 2010, ‘Parental investment in children: differential pathways of parental education and mental health’, The Economic Record, vol. 86, no. 273, pp. 210-26.
Yu, M, Ziviani, J, Baxter, J & Hyanes, M (in press), ‘Time use, parenting practice and conduct problems in four- to five-year-old Australian children’, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal.
Yu, M 2010, Physical, structural, and social aspects of activity engagement and conduct disorders in young Australian children, PhD Thesis, School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland.
Conference presentations
Baxter, J & Smith, J 2009, Breastfeeding and infant time use, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Bayer, JK, Ukoumunne, OC, Scalzo, K, Wake, M, Lucas, N & Nicholson, J 2009, Early childhood aetiology of mental health problems: a national longitudinal study, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Berthelsen, D, Walker, S & Nicholson, J 2009, How well are Australian children doing in their first year of school?, paper presented at the 14th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18-22 August.
Bittman, M & Chalmers, J 2009, Investing in working families: which policies promote the best balance of time and money for parents and children?, paper presented at the 11th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 8-10 July.
Bittman, M, Rutherford, L & Unsworth, L 2009, Digital natives, issues and evidence about children’s use of new and old media, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Blakemore, T & Shipley, M 2009, Whom do we reach? Exploring health and community service use by Australian families with young children, paper presented at the 11th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 8-10 July.
Blakemore, T, Shipley, M, Waters, S & Zubrick, S 2009, Measuring family disadvantage in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Brown, J 2009, The impact of socio-economic background on the association between television viewing and developmental outcomes among young Australian children, paper presented at the 11th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 8-10 July.
Burke, KJ 2009, The role of dietary habits in the psychosocial health of Australian children, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Claessens, A 2009, School readiness and achievement in middle childhood, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Edwards, B, Fiorini, M & Taylor, M 2009, Does it matter at what age children start school in Australia? Investigating the effects of school starting age on six-year old children’s outcomes, paper presented at the 11th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 8-10 July.
Emerson, E, Einfeld, S & Stancliffe, R 2009 Persistence and emergence of conduct difficulties in children with intellectual limitations, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Fenech, M, Sweller, N & Harrison, L 2009, Identifying high quality centre-based childcare using quantitative data sets: what numbers do and don’t tell us, paper presented at the 11th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 8-10 July.
Fiorini, M & Keane, M 2009, How the allocation of children's time affects cognitive and non-cognitive development, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Grahman, B & Losoncz, I 2009, The effect of mothers’ experience of extended work-life tension on child outcomes, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Hand, K, Berthelsen, D, Walker, S & Nicholson, J 2009, The quality of teacher-child relationships for young children with parent reported language concerns, paper presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Human Development Association, Adelaide, 6-8 July.
Harrison, LJ, McLeod, S, Berthelson, D & Walker, S 2009, Impact of speech and language impairment at 4- to 5-years on literacy, numeracy, and learning at 6- to 7-years, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Hillman, K, Khoo, ST & Ozolins, C 2009, Growth in receptive vocabulary among four to eight year olds: using growth modelling with the LSAC K cohort, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Hiscock, H, Scalzo, K, Canterford, L & Wake, M 2009, Does sleep duration predict increasing BMI in children aged 0-7 years?: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Kalil, A, Ryan, RM, Claessens, A & Corey, M 2009, Maternal education and the developmental gradient in time with children: evidence from Australia, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Kanjanapan, W 2009, Early maternal employment and children’s development in Australia, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Katz, I, Redmond, G & Smart, D 2009, Inter-generational mobility in Australia, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Khanam, R, Ngheim, HS & Connelly, LB 2009, Child health and income gradient in Australia: the role of chronic condition, paper presented at iHEA 7th World Congress on Health Economics International Health Economic Association, Beijing, 12-15 July.
Khanam, R, Ngheim, HS & Connelly, LB 2009, Child health and chronic conditions: does income mediate?, paper presented at the 38th Australian Conference of Economists, Adelaide, 28-30 September.
Khanam, R, Ngheim, HS & Connelly, LB 2009, Does maternity leave effect child health? Evidence form Parental Leave in Australia Survey, paper presented at the 31st Australian Conference of Health Economists, Tasmania, 1-2 October.
Lee, JS 2009, The negative effects of persistent poverty on children's physical, socio-emotional, and learning development, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Leigh, A & Yamauchi, C 2009, Which children benefit from non-parental care?, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Lucas, N, Kilpatrick, N, Neumann, A, Chapman, J & Nicholson, J 2009, Inequalities in reported oral health and dental service utilization of Australian children aged 2-3 and 6-7 years, paper presented at the Public Health Association of Australia Conference, Canberra, 28-30 September and at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
McLeod, S, Harrison, L, McAllister, L & McCormack, J 2009, Prevalence of communication impairment in 4-to 5-year-old Australian children, paper presented at the HCSNet Event: The Australian Language and Speech Conference, Sydney, 3-4 December.
McLeod, S, McCormack, J, McAllister, L & Harrison, LJ 2010, Severity and nature of speech impairment in a community sample of 4- to 5-year-old children, paper presented at the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA), Oslo, Norway, 23-26 June.
Nicholson, J, Bethelsen, D, Lucas, N & Wake, M 2009, Socio-economic inequalities in physical, behavioural and cognitive outcomes for Australian children, birth to 6 years, paper presented at the 14th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18-22 August & the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Nicholson, J, Bethelsen, D, Lucas, N & Wake, M 2010, Early impacts of socio-economic inequalities vary by age and physical/developmental outcome: National Australian Study, paper presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1-4 May.
Nicol, A 2009, What event matters? Exploring the relationship between stressful events and psychological distress in mothers of infants, paper presented at the 11th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 8-10 July.
Ou, L & Chen, J 2009, The gaps in health outcome and health services utilization between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian infants and attributable causal effects: where to intervene and how big impact are they?, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Redmond, G 2009, Using LSAC to examine the adequacy of Australia children’s living standards, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Rothman, S 2009, The development and use of educational measures in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Sanson, A, Smart, D & Misson, S 2009, Children’s physical, cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes: do they share the same drivers?, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Sanson, A, Smart, D, Baxter, J, Edwards, B & Hayes, A 2009, Home to school transitions for financially disadvantaged children: findings from LSAC Waves 1 and 2, paper presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Human Development Association, Adelaide, 6-8 July.
Shin, H 2009, Talking to children early but respectfully: the effect of inductive reasoning and hostile parenting at age 4-5 on child’s conduct problems at age 6-7 using LSAC Waves 1 and 2, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Shipley, M & Blakemore, T 2009, Parenting in place: exploring parenting behaviours and socioeconomic position in the context of neighbourhoods, paper presented at the 11th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 8-10 July & at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Silburn, SR & Brinkman, SA 2009, The Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) and other measures of early child development as predictors of children’s school learning and behaviour, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Smart, D, Sanson, A, Baxter, J, Edwards, B & Hayes, A 2009, Home to school transitions for financially disadvantaged children: findings from Growing Up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, paper presented at the 11th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 8-10 July.
Smart, D, Sanson, A, Baxter, J, Edwards, B & Hayes, A 2009, The school progress of children from financially disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged families, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Soloff, C 2009, Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children: study overview, paper presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Human Development Association, Adelaide, 6-8 July.
Soloff, C 2009, Data linkage: benefits and pitfalls, paper presented at the Maximising the value of longitudinal studies for policy and science: methodological and analysis issues workshop Canberra, 12-13 November.
Taylor, M, Fiorini, M & Edwards, B 2009, Does it matter at what age children start school in Australia? Investigating school starting age and six-year old children’s outcomes, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Taylor, M & Gray, M 2009, The impact of child support payments on the labour supply decisions of resident mothers, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Taylor, N & Thapa, P 2009, The production of cognitive and non-cognitive gaps in children: the contribution of family income, resources and parenting, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Wake, M & Smith, K 2009, Changes in preschooler obesity between 2004 and 2008: is there hope after the hype?, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Walker, S & Berthelsen, D 2009, Quality of the home learning environment and the transition to school, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Walker, S & Berthelsen, D 2009, Gender difference in children’s classroom behaviour and teacher-child relationships in early childhood: an Australian study, paper presented at the 14th European Conference for Developmental Psychology, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18-22 August.
Waters, A, Poulos, LM, Ampon, RD, Zinoviev, A, Xuan, W, Reddel, HK & Marks, GB 2009, Prognostic significance of parental reports of ‘asthma’ and ‘wheeze’ in kindergarten children, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Whitehouse, G, Romaniuk, H, Lucas, N & Nicholson, J 2009, Parental leave, maternal mental wellbeing, couple relationship and quality of parenting: evidence from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, paper presented at the Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, 2nd Research Conference, Melbourne, 3-4 December.
Technical papers
Misson, S 2009, Wave 3 weighting and non-response, Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne.