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School-based intervention to address self-regulation and executive functioning in children attending primary schools in remote Australian Aboriginal communitiesExecutive functioning and self-regulation influence a range of outcomes across the life course including physical and mental health, educational success, and employment
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Implementing and Evaluating Interventions to Improve School Readiness and Early LiteracyThe implementation of the Pacific early age readiness and learning program has generated significant data, evidence, operational experience, and knowledge
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Investing in school readiness: A comparison of different early childhood education pathways in rural IndonesiaThis paper documents that children in rural Indonesia participate in a great variety of early childhood education pathways
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Latent profiles of early developmental vulnerabilities in a New South Wales child population at age 5 yearsPatterns of early childhood developmental vulnerabilities may provide useful indicators for particular mental disorder outcomes in later life
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Birth outcomes and academic achievement in childhood: A population record linkage studyThis study used population-based record linkage to examine the association between early life risk factors and academic achievement.
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The 2015 Middle Childhood Survey (MCS) of mental health and well-being at age 11 years in an Australian population cohortmost children report mental health and well-being, but the population distribution spanned the full range of possible scores on every construct.
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The role of preschool quality in promoting child development: evidence from rural IndonesiaThis article examines the relationship between preschool quality and children’s early development in a sample of over 7900 children enrolled in 578 preschools in rural Indonesia.
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The early Human Capability Index (eHCI)The Early Human Capability Index is a holistic measure intended to capture early child development across diverse cultures and contexts.
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Social support helps protects against depressed mood in adolescenceThe goals of the current study were to identify different trajectories of sadness from Grade 6 to 9 in Australian school students, and to explore the role that social support from school, teachers, friends and families play in supporting students’ mental health.
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescentsUsing over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very young ages and widen overtime.