This report presents brief statistical analyses of the first 23 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally representative longitudinal study of Australian households. The latest findings reveal that economic pressures and social shifts are changing how Australians approach key life decisions.

This report presents brief statistical analyses of the first 22 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally representative longitudinal study of Australian households. An important theme of the report is how Australians are faring in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis and the sharp rise in the cost...

Efforts to enforce compulsory schooling by linking welfare assistance to school attendance are rarely successful in themselves, according to this report. Abstract Efforts to enforce compulsory schooling by linking welfare assistance to school attendance are rarely successful in themselves. One reason is a lack of credibility: targeted families may anticipate that welfare administrators will be...

This paper examines the relationship between these financial windfalls and spending at electronic gaming machines (EGMs) using data from 62 local government areas in Victoria, Australia.