Roger Wilkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 120351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Wilkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkins |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8548-757X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The effects of commuting and working from home arrangements on mental health
In this study, we quantify the effects of commuting time and working from home (WFH) arrangements on the mental health of Australian men and women. Leveraging rich panel-data models together with home-job-spell fixed effects, we first show that adverse effects of commuting time are modest in magnitude and manifest only among men with poor levels of mental health (0.01 SD decrease per 10-minute increase of commuting time). Second, we show that WFH…
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Family Welfare Receipt
Many countries impose job search requirements on unemployment benefit recipients. Existing studies have mainly focused on the impact of incremental changes to requirements on the recipients. Australian reforms in 1995 saw groups of partnered welfare recipients newly subjected to job search requirements, allowing us to produce causal estimates of the effects on family welfare receipt of introducing such requirements. Using a quasi-experimental des…
Distributional national accounts for Australia, 1991–2018
Evaluating How Mental Health Changed in Australia through the Covid-19 Pandemic: Findings from the ‘Taking the Pulse of the Nation’ (TTPN) Survey
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on mental health at the level of the population. The current study adds to the evidence base by examining how the prevalence of psychological distress changed in Australia during the pandemic. The study also assesses the psychometric properties of a new single-item measure of mental distress included in a survey program conducted regularly throughout the pandemic. Data are from 1158 respondents i…
Protecting mental health during periods of financial stress: Evidence from the Australian Coronavirus Supplement income support payment
Does early-life income inequality predict self-reported health in later life? Evidence from the United States
Design Matters: The Impact of Capi on Interview Length
Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) offers many attractive benefits over paper-and-pencil interviewing. There is, however, mixed evidence on the impact of CAPI on interview length, an important survey outcome in the context of length limits imposed by survey budgets and concerns over respondent burden. In this article, recent experimental and quasi-experimental evidence derived from a large, nationally representative household panel st…
Measuring top incomes using tax record data: A cautionary tale from Australia
Intensity and persistence of individuals' social exclusion in Australia
We construct a measure of social exclusion that recognises its multidimensionality at the individual level, including its potential variability in intensity at a point in time and in persistence over time. We distinguish seven dimensions or domains of social exclusion: material resources; employment; education and skills; health and disability; social; community; and personal safety. For each of these seven domains, several indicators of social e…
Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 Year Follow-Up Study
OBJECTIVE: To examine mortality in a representative nationwide sample of homeless and marginally housed people living in shelters, rooming houses, and hotels. DESIGN: Follow-up study. SETTING: Canada 1991-2001. PARTICIPANTS: 15 100 homeless and marginally housed people enumerated in 1991 census. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Age specific and age standardised mortality rates, remaining life expectancies at age 25, and probabilities of survival from age 2…
The Changing Socio‐Demographic Composition of Poverty in Australia: 1982 To 2004
The extent of income poverty and its socio‐demographic composition are examined using all ABS income surveys conducted over the period 1982 to 2004. There has been some increase in the proportion of the population in poverty, particularly since 1997, but of more note are the substantial changes in the socio‐demographic composition of those in poverty. Compared with the start of the sample period, persons in poverty at the end of the period were m…
The Promise of Equality
Jefferson's Pillow is a highly personal and deeply poignant meditation on America's founding generation by a respected leader in the modern Civil Rights movement. The title derives from Thomas Jefferson's recollection of his first conscious memory, being carried on a pillow from his family's Shadwell plantation by a black slave. The pillow motif could be pushed even further, since one of Jefferson's last conscious utterances-a mumbled request to …
Rethinking Caretaker Conventions for Australian Governments
Australia has well‐established conventions for caretaker governments. These conventions regulate how a government should operate once an election is called, and have been documented for some decades. Yet the current conventions date from an era when elections usually produced clear and immediate results. Can our caretaker conventions cope with the emerging reality of indecisive elections and long delays before a new government is confirmed? This …
Racism
Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States
Plain Talk About Education: Conversations with Myself
The Inner-City Child: Black America's Next Challenge
Dr. Miller, Dean Howard, ladies and gentlemen: You have done me a great honor to ask me here to participate in the Charles Thompson Lecture Series, thereby adding my name to a list of lecturers far more distinguished than I. You have done me a great honor simply to invite me to this great university, which though I am not an alumnus, has nevertheless nurtured me in many ways. The first lawyer who ever paid me to do legal work is a distinguished g…
Health expectancy in Canada, late 1970s: Demographic, regional, and social dimensions
Based on estimates of activity restriction from the Canada Health Survey, institutional data on long-term care, and survival data from vital statistics, we have calculated an index of health expectancy (life expectancy in each state of health), and a summary of these indices which we have called quality-adjusted life expectancy. At birth, expected years of long-term institutionalization were 0.8 for men and 1.5 for women. Expected years of activi…
What Africa Means to Blacks
Does early-life income inequality predict self-reported health in later life? Evidence from the United States
Health expectancy in Canada, late 1970s: Demographic, regional, and social dimensions
Based on estimates of activity restriction from the Canada Health Survey, institutional data on long-term care, and survival data from vital statistics, we have calculated an index of health expectancy (life expectancy in each state of health), and a summary of these indices which we have called quality-adjusted life expectancy. At birth, expected years of long-term institutionalization were 0.8 for men and 1.5 for women. Expected years of activi…
Intensity and persistence of individuals' social exclusion in Australia
We construct a measure of social exclusion that recognises its multidimensionality at the individual level, including its potential variability in intensity at a point in time and in persistence over time. We distinguish seven dimensions or domains of social exclusion: material resources; employment; education and skills; health and disability; social; community; and personal safety. For each of these seven domains, several indicators of social e…
The Changing Socio‐Demographic Composition of Poverty in Australia: 1982 To 2004
The extent of income poverty and its socio‐demographic composition are examined using all ABS income surveys conducted over the period 1982 to 2004. There has been some increase in the proportion of the population in poverty, particularly since 1997, but of more note are the substantial changes in the socio‐demographic composition of those in poverty. Compared with the start of the sample period, persons in poverty at the end of the period were m…
Protecting mental health during periods of financial stress: Evidence from the Australian Coronavirus Supplement income support payment
Design Matters: The Impact of Capi on Interview Length
Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) offers many attractive benefits over paper-and-pencil interviewing. There is, however, mixed evidence on the impact of CAPI on interview length, an important survey outcome in the context of length limits imposed by survey budgets and concerns over respondent burden. In this article, recent experimental and quasi-experimental evidence derived from a large, nationally representative household panel st…
Rethinking Caretaker Conventions for Australian Governments
Australia has well‐established conventions for caretaker governments. These conventions regulate how a government should operate once an election is called, and have been documented for some decades. Yet the current conventions date from an era when elections usually produced clear and immediate results. Can our caretaker conventions cope with the emerging reality of indecisive elections and long delays before a new government is confirmed? This …
Measuring top incomes using tax record data: A cautionary tale from Australia
What Africa Means to Blacks
Health expectancy in Canada, late 1970s: Demographic, regional, and social dimensions
Based on estimates of activity restriction from the Canada Health Survey, institutional data on long-term care, and survival data from vital statistics, we have calculated an index of health expectancy (life expectancy in each state of health), and a summary of these indices which we have called quality-adjusted life expectancy. At birth, expected years of long-term institutionalization were 0.8 for men and 1.5 for women. Expected years of activi…
Plain Talk About Education: Conversations with Myself
The Inner-City Child: Black America's Next Challenge
Dr. Miller, Dean Howard, ladies and gentlemen: You have done me a great honor to ask me here to participate in the Charles Thompson Lecture Series, thereby adding my name to a list of lecturers far more distinguished than I. You have done me a great honor simply to invite me to this great university, which though I am not an alumnus, has nevertheless nurtured me in many ways. The first lawyer who ever paid me to do legal work is a distinguished g…
Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States
Racism
Rethinking Caretaker Conventions for Australian Governments
Australia has well‐established conventions for caretaker governments. These conventions regulate how a government should operate once an election is called, and have been documented for some decades. Yet the current conventions date from an era when elections usually produced clear and immediate results. Can our caretaker conventions cope with the emerging reality of indecisive elections and long delays before a new government is confirmed? This …
The Promise of Equality
Jefferson's Pillow is a highly personal and deeply poignant meditation on America's founding generation by a respected leader in the modern Civil Rights movement. The title derives from Thomas Jefferson's recollection of his first conscious memory, being carried on a pillow from his family's Shadwell plantation by a black slave. The pillow motif could be pushed even further, since one of Jefferson's last conscious utterances-a mumbled request to …
The Changing Socio‐Demographic Composition of Poverty in Australia: 1982 To 2004
The extent of income poverty and its socio‐demographic composition are examined using all ABS income surveys conducted over the period 1982 to 2004. There has been some increase in the proportion of the population in poverty, particularly since 1997, but of more note are the substantial changes in the socio‐demographic composition of those in poverty. Compared with the start of the sample period, persons in poverty at the end of the period were m…
Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 Year Follow-Up Study
OBJECTIVE: To examine mortality in a representative nationwide sample of homeless and marginally housed people living in shelters, rooming houses, and hotels. DESIGN: Follow-up study. SETTING: Canada 1991-2001. PARTICIPANTS: 15 100 homeless and marginally housed people enumerated in 1991 census. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Age specific and age standardised mortality rates, remaining life expectancies at age 25, and probabilities of survival from age 2…
Intensity and persistence of individuals' social exclusion in Australia
We construct a measure of social exclusion that recognises its multidimensionality at the individual level, including its potential variability in intensity at a point in time and in persistence over time. We distinguish seven dimensions or domains of social exclusion: material resources; employment; education and skills; health and disability; social; community; and personal safety. For each of these seven domains, several indicators of social e…
Measuring top incomes using tax record data: A cautionary tale from Australia
Does early-life income inequality predict self-reported health in later life? Evidence from the United States
Design Matters: The Impact of Capi on Interview Length
Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) offers many attractive benefits over paper-and-pencil interviewing. There is, however, mixed evidence on the impact of CAPI on interview length, an important survey outcome in the context of length limits imposed by survey budgets and concerns over respondent burden. In this article, recent experimental and quasi-experimental evidence derived from a large, nationally representative household panel st…
Evaluating How Mental Health Changed in Australia through the Covid-19 Pandemic: Findings from the ‘Taking the Pulse of the Nation’ (TTPN) Survey
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on mental health at the level of the population. The current study adds to the evidence base by examining how the prevalence of psychological distress changed in Australia during the pandemic. The study also assesses the psychometric properties of a new single-item measure of mental distress included in a survey program conducted regularly throughout the pandemic. Data are from 1158 respondents i…
Protecting mental health during periods of financial stress: Evidence from the Australian Coronavirus Supplement income support payment
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Family Welfare Receipt
Many countries impose job search requirements on unemployment benefit recipients. Existing studies have mainly focused on the impact of incremental changes to requirements on the recipients. Australian reforms in 1995 saw groups of partnered welfare recipients newly subjected to job search requirements, allowing us to produce causal estimates of the effects on family welfare receipt of introducing such requirements. Using a quasi-experimental des…
Distributional national accounts for Australia, 1991–2018
The effects of commuting and working from home arrangements on mental health
In this study, we quantify the effects of commuting time and working from home (WFH) arrangements on the mental health of Australian men and women. Leveraging rich panel-data models together with home-job-spell fixed effects, we first show that adverse effects of commuting time are modest in magnitude and manifest only among men with poor levels of mental health (0.01 SD decrease per 10-minute increase of commuting time). Second, we show that WFH…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (4 works)