There is plenty of evidence for intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. However, mortality, as the most significant adverse outcome of children, is not well explored, especially in Australia. Lack of appropriate data is one of the main reasons. To tackle this issue, this paper uses a unique administrative dataset of the Department of Families, Community Services...

Peng Yu analyses the results of a study of the effect of the education on people’s fertility expectation in Australia, using the first wave of the HILDA Survey conducted in 2001.