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Retirement and Health

Recruiting a panel of retirees: 
methodological issues
Work stress and retirement
Stress following retirement: changes in
 stress and well being in the 2 years 
following retirement
Impact of caregiving on work stress 
among older workers

 

Funded by VicHealth

 

Mental Health and family variables

Impact of marriage on mental wellbeing 
of men and women
Impact of children on mental wellbeing 
of mothers and fathers
cohabitation and mental health: does union type make a difference
 Project enabled by agreement of Australian Vice Chancellors Committee and Australian Bureau of Statistics to provide access to Confidentialised Unit Record Files (CURFS)

 

The ‘invisible’ post-modern family:  Investigating the interface between the private and public worlds of lesbian families

 

Funded by Australian Research Council Discovery Grants Scheme

 

Diversity and Change in Australian Families: A statistical portrait

In collaboration with the Australian Institute of Family Studies.  Research made possible by agreement of Australian Vice Chancellors Committee and Australian Bureau of Statistics to provide access to Confidentialised Unit Record Files (CURFS)

 

Sole mothers and workforce participation

Explaining the employment gap between sole mothers and couple mothers
Understanding changes in full time and part time employment of lone and couple mothers, 1986-96
In collaboration with the Australian Institute of Family Studies.  Research made possible by agreement of Australian Vice Chancellors Committee and Australian Bureau of Statistics to provide access to Confidentialised Unit Record Files (CURFS)

 

Internet based survey methodologies

 

Cohabitation:

impact of premarital cohabitation 
on relationship duration and stability
Differences and similarities between 
cohabiting relatationships and relation
ships in which partners are legally married
the changing relationship between premarital  cohabitation and marital
 stability
(1) In collaboration with the Australian Institute of Family Studies.  Research made possible by agreement of Australian Vice Chancellors Committee and Australian Bureau of Statistics to provide access to Confidentialised Unit Record Files (CURFS)

(2) With Ken Dempsey

Fertility Decision Making

Exploring the factors that affect the decisions of women and their partners to have or not have children.  Based on a sample survey of approximately 3000 adults aged 20-39

With Australian Insititute of Family Studies and the Commonwealth Office of the Status of Women
 

Site last updated 2 Decmeber 2003