Youth mental health has been on the decline since the early 2010s. Is social media to blame? The e61 Institute sheds new light on this question by analysing drivers of mental health in this submission to the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society.

This research note quantifies the effect of stamp duty on the number of housing purchases in Australia and people moving homes.

Stamp duty penalises homeowners that move. This note – the first in a two part series – illustrates its costs on people using data from the 2023 McKinnon Poll 'Understanding attitudes towards housing in Australia'.

Company-level investment is very sensitive to changes in the new sentiment indicator, even controlling for fundamentals, such as current and expected profits, as well as measures of company-level uncertainty. This paper explores the mechanisms that link investment to sentiment.

This paper explores the determinants of liquidity across households and over time, using a range of household surveys for Australia. The authors find that household liquidity is strongly associated with life cycle factors, such as age and housing tenure.