Staff Papers and presentations

Recent presentations by AIFS staff are listed below with links to abstracts, the complete paper, or slides from PowerPoint presentations. (Before reading see Disclaimer.)

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2008

Smart, A, Sanson A, Baxter, J, Edwards B & Hayes A.(2008, 20 November). Home to school transitions for financially disadvantaged children. Paper presented at the launch of the Home to School Transitions Report. PDF 1.2MB
Hand, K. & Moloney, L. (2008, 7 November). Evaluation of the family law reforms: Overview & update of activities. Paper presented to the Family Relationship Services Australia Conference, Cairns. PDF 694KB
Hayes, A. (2008, 17 October). Divided Nation? Why Educational Opportunity is an Engine of Social Inclusion. Paper presented at the Sir Harold Wyndham Memorial Lecture, NSW Institute for Educational Research Inc., Sydney. PDF 3.2MB
Hayes, A. (2008, 3 October). Why Early Childhood is Important for Social Inclusion and Mobility. Paper presented at the 3 Dimensions of Social Inclusion seminar, ACOSS, Sydney. PDF 2.1MB
Hayes, A. (2008, 3 September). Social Inclusion: From a View of the Past to a Glimpse of Australia’s Future. Paper presented at Opportunities not Vulnerabilities: An Australian Agenda for Social Inclusion, Anglicare National Conference 2008, Sydney. PDF 1.9MB
Smart, D. & Vassallo, S. (2008, August 10-12). Pathways to social and emotional wellbeing: Lessons from a 24-year longitudinal study. Invited paper presented at the Australian Council for Educational Research Conference: Touching the future: Building skills for life and work, Brisbane. PDF 10.5MB
Gray, M. & Hayes, A. (2008, July). Childcare, outcomes for children and socio-economic disadvantage. Paper presented at the Melbourne Institute Public Economics Forum, Canberra. PDF 663KB
Baxter, J. (2008, 30 June - 3 July). Is money the main reason mothers return to work after childbearing? A quantitative analysis of reasons for return to work. Paper presented at the 14th biennial conference of the Australian Population Association, Alice Springs. PDF 1.4MB
Baxter, J. & Gray, M. (2008, June 19-21). Parents who don’t use childcare: who provides the care in working couple families with infants? Paper presented at the 17th annual conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics, Torino, Italy. PDF 2.1MB
Hayes, A. (2008, 11 April). Not such splendid isolation: Developmental implications of limited opportunities for intimacy. Paper presented at Families: broken blended mended, 13th National Family Law Conference, Adelaide. PDF 1.4MB