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View article: Understanding the effect of stay-at-home orders on psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study in Australia
Understanding the effect of stay-at-home orders on psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study in Australia Open
The extraordinary public policy response to COVID-19 in Australia saw extended lockdowns in some Australian states and territories, some of the longest in the world. This paper seeks to understand the effect these periods of lockdown had o…
View article: Understanding the effect of stay-at-home orders on psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study in Australia
Understanding the effect of stay-at-home orders on psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study in Australia Open
The extraordinary public policy response to COVID-19 in Australia saw extended lockdowns in some Australian states and territories, some of the longest in the world. This paper seeks to understand the effect these periods of lockdown had o…
View article: Household Financial Stress and Relationships During the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 Pandemic: Findings From Australian Survey Data
Household Financial Stress and Relationships During the <span>COVID</span>‐19 Pandemic: Findings From Australian Survey Data Open
During the COVID‐19 pandemic, disruptions to finances and relationships were significant. Analysing Australian longitudinal survey data from May 2020 and August 2021, this study examines the Family Stress Model, which posits that financial…
View article: Understanding the effect of stay-at-home orders on psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study in Australia
Understanding the effect of stay-at-home orders on psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study in Australia Open
The extraordinary public policy response to COVID-19 in Australia saw extended lockdowns in some Australian states and territories, some of the longest in the world. This paper seeks to understand the effect these periods of lockdown had o…
View article: Generational change and democratic transitions in 14 Asian countries
Generational change and democratic transitions in 14 Asian countries Open
Generations are the engine of political change. This is especially relevant in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, which have had a variety of postwar democratic experiences while also encompassing over 60 percent of the world's yout…
View article: Policy Learning for Many Outcomes of Interest: Combining Optimal Policy Trees with Multi-objective Bayesian Optimisation
Policy Learning for Many Outcomes of Interest: Combining Optimal Policy Trees with Multi-objective Bayesian Optimisation Open
Methods for learning optimal policies use causal machine learning models to create human-interpretable rules for making choices around the allocation of different policy interventions. However, in realistic policy-making contexts, decision…
View article: Understanding the fatal burden of COVID-19 in residential aged care homes in Australia: Using linked data to generate evidence
Understanding the fatal burden of COVID-19 in residential aged care homes in Australia: Using linked data to generate evidence Open
AimTo quantify the impact of the pandemic on fatal burden of disease among those living in residential aged care homes (RACH) in Australia. MethodsUsing Residential Aged Care data linked to Death Registrations (Jan 2016 to 11 Aug 2022), we…
View article: Measuring Wellbeing Across Culture and Context – are we Getting it Right? Evaluating the Variation in Wellbeing Conceptualisations Throughout the World
Measuring Wellbeing Across Culture and Context – are we Getting it Right? Evaluating the Variation in Wellbeing Conceptualisations Throughout the World Open
Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers have been increasingly interested in measuring wellbeing over the last two decades. However, with many measurement tools and frameworks being replicated in contexts distinct from where they wer…
View article: Gambling participation and risk after COVID‐19: Analysis of a population representative longitudinal panel of Australians
Gambling participation and risk after COVID‐19: Analysis of a population representative longitudinal panel of Australians Open
Background and aims The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on gambling participation and levels of gambling harm across populations during the pandemic is now addressed in a well‐established body of empirical literature. This study aimed to m…
View article: Safety or change? The 2023 Australian voice referendum
Safety or change? The 2023 Australian voice referendum Open
The 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum joined the 37 other referendums which have been defeated since federation, out of a total of 45 referendums. In contrast to the 1967 referendum on Indigenous Australians, which …
View article: Heterogeneous treatment effect estimation with high-dimensional data in public policy evaluation -- an application to the conditioning of cash transfers in Morocco using causal machine learning
Heterogeneous treatment effect estimation with high-dimensional data in public policy evaluation -- an application to the conditioning of cash transfers in Morocco using causal machine learning Open
Causal machine learning methods can be used to search for treatment effect heterogeneity in high-dimensional datasets even where we lack a strong enough theoretical framework to select variables or make parametric assumptions about data. T…
View article: Transparency challenges in policy evaluation with causal machine learning: improving usability and accountability
Transparency challenges in policy evaluation with causal machine learning: improving usability and accountability Open
Causal machine learning tools are beginning to see use in real-world policy evaluation tasks to flexibly estimate treatment effects. One issue with these methods is that the machine learning models used are generally black boxes, that is, …
View article: Distributive politics and electoral advantage in the 2022 Australian election
Distributive politics and electoral advantage in the 2022 Australian election Open
Distributive politics—or pork barreling—is prevalent across many political systems. It aims to influence the vote by directing discretionary spending to constituencies and/or groups of voters that are important for their re‐election. We te…
View article: The Impact of the Pandemic on Opinion toward the Role of Government in Australia
The Impact of the Pandemic on Opinion toward the Role of Government in Australia Open
The 2020-23 COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a level of government-imposed restrictions on personal freedom unknown outside of wartime. How did these restrictions affect citizens’ views about the appropriate role of government? To answer this…
View article: Transparency challenges in policy evaluation with causal machine learning -- improving usability and accountability
Transparency challenges in policy evaluation with causal machine learning -- improving usability and accountability Open
Causal machine learning tools are beginning to see use in real-world policy evaluation tasks to flexibly estimate treatment effects. One issue with these methods is that the machine learning models used are generally black boxes, i.e., the…
View article: Discretion in decision to receive COVID-19 vaccines and associated socio-economic inequalities in rates of uptake: a whole-of-population data linkage study from Australia
Discretion in decision to receive COVID-19 vaccines and associated socio-economic inequalities in rates of uptake: a whole-of-population data linkage study from Australia Open
Education-related inequalities in uptake were larger where discretion in decisions was larger. Policies that limited discretion in decisions to receive vaccines may have contributed to achieving the dual aims of maximising uptake and minim…
View article: Nuclear speckles regulate HIF-2α programs and correlate with patient survival in kidney cancer
Nuclear speckles regulate HIF-2α programs and correlate with patient survival in kidney cancer Open
SUMMARY Nuclear speckles are membrane-less bodies within the cell nucleus enriched in RNA biogenesis, processing, and export factors. In this study we investigated speckle phenotype variation in human cancer, finding a reproducible speckle…
View article: Fairness Implications of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation with Machine Learning Methods in Policy-making
Fairness Implications of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation with Machine Learning Methods in Policy-making Open
Causal machine learning methods which flexibly generate heterogeneous treatment effect estimates could be very useful tools for governments trying to make and implement policy. However, as the critical artificial intelligence literature ha…
View article: Federalism and Confidence in Australian Governments During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Federalism and Confidence in Australian Governments During the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic was the most severe global health crisis for a century. Most advanced democracies introduced restrictions on social interaction to reduce community infection. This article examines how public confidence in Australia’s…
View article: Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs for Medicare-subsidised services and medicines in Australia.
Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs for Medicare-subsidised services and medicines in Australia. Open
ObjectivesIn line with affordability and equity principles, Medicare—Australia’s universal public health insurance system—has measures to limit out-of-pocket costs (OOPC), especially among lower income households. We examined the distribut…
View article: Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs under Australia’s universal health care system: a national linked data study
Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs under Australia’s universal health care system: a national linked data study Open
Background In line with affordability and equity principles, Medicare—Australia’s universal health care program—has measures to contain out-of-pocket costs (OOPC), particularly for lower income households. This study examined the distribut…
View article: The power of online panel paradata to predict unit nonresponse and voluntary attrition in a longitudinal design
The power of online panel paradata to predict unit nonresponse and voluntary attrition in a longitudinal design Open
The objective of this study is to identify factors affecting participation rates, i.e., nonresponse and voluntary attrition rates, and their predictive power in a probability-based online panel. Participation for this panel had already bee…
View article: Data trust and data privacy in the COVID-19 period
Data trust and data privacy in the COVID-19 period Open
In this article, we focus on data trust and data privacy, and how attitudes may be changing during the COVID-19 period. On balance, it appears that Australians are more trusting of organizations with regards to data privacy and less concer…
View article: Data trust and data privacy in the COVID-19 period—ADDENDUM
Data trust and data privacy in the COVID-19 period—ADDENDUM Open
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