Nicholas Biddle
Biographic Data
| ID | 153232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Biddle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Biddle |
| SIGNATURE | BIDDLE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4765-4445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 213 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Household Financial Stress and Relationships During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: Findings From Australian Survey Data
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 stress influences relational dynamics within households. Our analysis indicates a significant reduction in financial stress during the observed COVID‐19 periods, likely buffered by government support measures a…
Measuring Wellbeing Across Culture and Context – are we Getting it Right? Evaluating the Variation in Wellbeing Conceptualisations Throughout the World
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 were developed, it raises the question as to whether we are measuring the right things. This study draws on data collected through a systematic review of participatory wellbeing frameworks to better understand how …
Generational change and democratic transitions in 14 Asian countries
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 youth. This article applies the four-fold democratic classification developed by Yun-han Chu and his colleagues to wave 5 of the Asian Barometer Survey to investigate how generational change is shaping democratic or…
Distributive politics and electoral advantage in the 2022 Australian election
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 term this the objective dimension to pork barreling. However, we argue that for pork barreling to deliver rewards, voters must also be aware that they are gaining a special benefit from government—the subjective d…
Federalism and Confidence in Australian Governments During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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 federal system of government was affected by these restrictions. We use a longitudinal dataset collected nationally between 2020 and 2022 to evaluate how public confidence in both federal and state governments …
Information and campaign effects in the 2023 Australian Voice referendum
Safety or change? The 2023 Australian voice referendum
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 attracted a record majority of 90.8 percent, the Voice referendum gained just 39.9 percent support. This paper uses a large, nationally representative survey to explain voting in the Voice referendum and to comp…
Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs under Australia's universal health care system: A national linked data study
BACKGROUND: In line with affordability and equity principles, Medicare-Australia's universal health care program-has measures to contain out-of-pocket (OOP) costs, particularly for lower income households. This study examined the distribution of OOP costs for Medicare-subsidised out-of-hospital services and prescription medicines in Australian households, according to their ability to pay. METHODS: OOP costs for out-of-hospital services and medic…
The power of online panel paradata to predict unit nonresponse and voluntary attrition in a longitudinal design
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 been investigated in the literature according to the socio-demographic and socio-psychological characteristics of respondents and different types of paradata, such as device type or questionnaire navigation, had al…
The Impact of the Pandemic on Opinion toward the Role of Government in Australia
The 2020-23 COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a level of governmentimposed restrictions on personal freedom unknown outside of wartime. How did these restrictions affect citizens' views about the appropriate role of government? To answer this question, we use a unique longitudinal dataset that matches the public's views about the role of government in Australia to local variations in restrictions on personal freedom aimed at reducing community infect…
Conceptualisations of wellbeing and quality of life: A systematic review of participatory studies
Observed effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the life satisfaction, psychological distress and loneliness of Australian carers and non-carers
Using six waves of longitudinal data, we investigate wellbeing, psychological distress and loneliness differences between informal carers and non-carers in the context of COVID-19-related policy changes in Australia. Wellbeing levels fluctuated along with the virus case numbers. Free childcare temporarily alleviated the disparity between carers and non-carers, but by its cessation, carers, in particular, reported lower wellbeing and higher psycho…
The role of human influences on adoption and rejection of energy technology: A systematised critical review of the literature on household energy transitions
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance: Correlates in a nationally representative longitudinal survey of the Australian population
Background High levels of vaccination coverage in populations will be required even with vaccines that have high levels of effectiveness to prevent and stop outbreaks of coronavirus. The World Health Organisation has suggested that governments take a proactive response to vaccine hesitancy ‘hotspots’ based on social and behavioural insights. Methods Representative longitudinal online survey of over 3000 adults from Australia that examines the dem…
Covid-19 Survey Participation and Wellbeing: A Survey Experiment
Individuals throughout the world are being recruited into studies to examine the social impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). While previous literature has illustrated how research participation can impact distress and wellbeing, to the authors' best knowledge no study has examined this in the COVID-19 context. Using an innovative approach, this study analyses the impacts of participation in a COVID-19 survey in Australia on subjective …
Preschool attendance and developmental outcomes at age five in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children: A population-based cohort study of 100 357 Australian children
Background Policies to increase Australian Indigenous children’s participation in preschool aim to reduce developmental inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. This study aims to understand the benefits of preschool participation by quantifying the association between preschool participation in the year before school and developmental outcomes at age five in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. Methods We used data from peri…
Candidate sex, partisanship and electoral context in Australia
Does descriptive representation increase perceptions of legitimacy? Evidence from Australia
How does the descriptive representation of ethnic minorities affect how voters feel about the responsiveness of government? While there are many theoretical arguments that descriptive representation increases perceptions of legitimacy, the empirical evidence of this link is limited. We use survey data from the Australian Election Study and a separate conjoint experiment to evaluate whether the presence of ethnic minority candidates changes voters…
Identification et changements d'identification des Autochtones en Australie: Nouveaux Résultats Issus De l'Appariement De Microdonnées
Les Australiens autochtones représentent une faible part de la population, mais leurs caractéristiques démographiques sont spécifiques. Pour cette raison, le Bureau australien de statistiques (ABS) et les chercheurs en calculent régulièrement des estimations de cette population. Les changements d'identification (d'autochtone à non autochtone, ou l'inverse) contribuent à la dynamique de cette population. Jusqu'à présent, on ne disposait pas de don…
Trends in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Multidomain Well-Being: Decomposing Persistent, Maturation, and Period Effects in Emerging Adulthood
We explore whether disadvantage exists in domain-specific happiness with Indigenous youth of Australia. Data were collected from 52,270 Australians aged 15–28 years, 4% of whom were Indigenous, and came from four birth cohorts with data collected between the years 1997 and 2013. Random and fixed effects decomposed differences in well-being into persistent (present at the earliest wave and consistent over time), maturation (changes over age), and …
Human Capital Development and Indigenous Peoples
In all countries for which data is available, Indigenous peoples have lower rates of formal educational participation and attainment than their non-Indigenous counterparts. There are many structural reasons for this, but it may in part be related to the perceived relationship between the costs and benefits of education. Human Capital Development and Indigenous Peoples systematically applies a human capital approach to educational policy, to help …
Class, capital, and identity in Australian society
Despite a comparatively ‘flat’ social structure and lack of obvious class-based cleavages, Australian society is stratified by objective, multidimensional measures of social class. Using data from a July 2015 survey of a random sample of Australian citizens, latent class analysis identifies six class types in Australian society, based on the distributions of cultural, social, and economic capital among respondents. The resulting classes are categ…
Insights for Indigenous Policy from the Applied Behavioural Sciences
People are neither completely rational, nor completely random in their decisions. Rather, they exhibit predictable biases that not only make it less likely that they will achieve their own stated desires, but also complicate the design and efficiency of public policy. These are some of the insights of the emerging applied behavioural sciences. With some notable exceptions, these insights have not always filtered through to policy formulation. Pol…
School (non-)attendance and ‘mobile cultures’: Theoretical and empirical insights from Indigenous Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians are significantly and substantially less likely to be attending school on a given day than their non-Indigenous counterparts. This has been shown to have long-term consequences for the development of the mainstream literacy and numeracy skills associated with formal schooling, as well as later school and employment outcomes. Reducing this gap is a key focus of government education pol…
How gendered is ambition? Educational and occupational plans of Indigenous youth in Australia
The Healthy Immigrant Effect: Patterns and Evidence from Four Countries
Measuring and Analysing the Wellbeing of Australia's Indigenous Population
Class, capital, and identity in Australian society
Despite a comparatively ‘flat’ social structure and lack of obvious class-based cleavages, Australian society is stratified by objective, multidimensional measures of social class. Using data from a July 2015 survey of a random sample of Australian citizens, latent class analysis identifies six class types in Australian society, based on the distributions of cultural, social, and economic capital among respondents. The resulting classes are categ…
The Relationship between Wellbeing and Indigenous Land, Language and Culture in Australia
A consistent finding in the literature on Indigenous peoples is the importance of the sustainability of land, language and culture. All three are related, with the maintenance of one helping to protect the others. This paper uses a nationally representative, cross-sectional survey of the Indigenous Australian population to look at the factors associated with individual measures of sustainability. Geography matters for those in remote areas who ar…
Safety or change? The 2023 Australian voice referendum
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 attracted a record majority of 90.8 percent, the Voice referendum gained just 39.9 percent support. This paper uses a large, nationally representative survey to explain voting in the Voice referendum and to comp…
The role of human influences on adoption and rejection of energy technology: A systematised critical review of the literature on household energy transitions
School (non-)attendance and ‘mobile cultures’: Theoretical and empirical insights from Indigenous Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians are significantly and substantially less likely to be attending school on a given day than their non-Indigenous counterparts. This has been shown to have long-term consequences for the development of the mainstream literacy and numeracy skills associated with formal schooling, as well as later school and employment outcomes. Reducing this gap is a key focus of government education pol…
How gendered is ambition? Educational and occupational plans of Indigenous youth in Australia
Does descriptive representation increase perceptions of legitimacy? Evidence from Australia
How does the descriptive representation of ethnic minorities affect how voters feel about the responsiveness of government? While there are many theoretical arguments that descriptive representation increases perceptions of legitimacy, the empirical evidence of this link is limited. We use survey data from the Australian Election Study and a separate conjoint experiment to evaluate whether the presence of ethnic minority candidates changes voters…
The geography and demography of Indigenous temporary mobility: An analysis of the 2006 census snapshot
Measuring Wellbeing Across Culture and Context – are we Getting it Right? Evaluating the Variation in Wellbeing Conceptualisations Throughout the World
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 were developed, it raises the question as to whether we are measuring the right things. This study draws on data collected through a systematic review of participatory wellbeing frameworks to better understand how …
Information and campaign effects in the 2023 Australian Voice referendum
Candidate sex, partisanship and electoral context in Australia
Indigenous Australian population projections: Problems and prospects
Distributive politics and electoral advantage in the 2022 Australian election
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 term this the objective dimension to pork barreling. However, we argue that for pork barreling to deliver rewards, voters must also be aware that they are gaining a special benefit from government—the subjective d…
The Relationship between Community and Individual Measures of Wellbeing: Comparisons by remoteness for Indigenous Australians
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians, the wellbeing of the community in which one lives and/or has an ongoing attachment to is an important aspect of individual health and wellbeing. In non-Indigenous policy discourse, the main way to summarise community-level wellbeing is through indices of socioeconomic outcomes that can be used to rank regions or areas within regions. While these have been produced for the Indigen…
Longitudinal determinants of mobility: New evidence for Indigenous children and their carers
Estimating the Accuracy of Geographic Variation in Indigenous Population Counts
The ABS 2006 Post-Enumeration Survey was extended to include a sample of localities from the whole of Australia, thereby providing an estimate of census net undercount reflective of the enumeration in remote Indigenous settlements for the first time. The
Federalism and Confidence in Australian Governments During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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 federal system of government was affected by these restrictions. We use a longitudinal dataset collected nationally between 2020 and 2022 to evaluate how public confidence in both federal and state governments …
The Impact of the Pandemic on Opinion toward the Role of Government in Australia
The 2020-23 COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a level of governmentimposed restrictions on personal freedom unknown outside of wartime. How did these restrictions affect citizens' views about the appropriate role of government? To answer this question, we use a unique longitudinal dataset that matches the public's views about the role of government in Australia to local variations in restrictions on personal freedom aimed at reducing community infect…
Covid-19 Survey Participation and Wellbeing: A Survey Experiment
Individuals throughout the world are being recruited into studies to examine the social impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). While previous literature has illustrated how research participation can impact distress and wellbeing, to the authors' best knowledge no study has examined this in the COVID-19 context. Using an innovative approach, this study analyses the impacts of participation in a COVID-19 survey in Australia on subjective …
Identification et changements d'identification des Autochtones en Australie: Nouveaux Résultats Issus De l'Appariement De Microdonnées
Les Australiens autochtones représentent une faible part de la population, mais leurs caractéristiques démographiques sont spécifiques. Pour cette raison, le Bureau australien de statistiques (ABS) et les chercheurs en calculent régulièrement des estimations de cette population. Les changements d'identification (d'autochtone à non autochtone, ou l'inverse) contribuent à la dynamique de cette population. Jusqu'à présent, on ne disposait pas de don…
Nicholas Biddle in Greece: The Journals and Letters of 1806
Nicholas Biddle in Greece: The Journals and Letters of 1806
A Historical Perspective on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes in Australia, 1971-2001
Current debate in Indigenous affairs in Australia often involves the assertion that the last 30 years has been a period of policy failure. This article examines trends across a number of socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians from the 1967 referendum to the present, using census data. Overall, there has been steady, although not spectacular improvement in outcomes over time. These improvements are especially marked for education, which…
Prospects for ‘Closing the Gap’ in Socioeconomic Outcomes for Indigenous Australians
Practical reconciliation’ and more recently ‘closing the gap’ have been put forward as frameworks on which to base and evaluate policies to address Indigenous disadvantage. This paper analyses national‐level census‐based data to examine trends in Indigenous wellbeing since 1971. There has been steady improvement in most socioeconomic outcomes in the last 35 years; a finding at odds with the current discourse of failure. Evidence of convergence be…
The geography and demography of Indigenous temporary mobility: An analysis of the 2006 census snapshot
Gender Gaps in Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: Australian Regional Comparisons and International Possibilities
International literature clearly demonstrates the potential for gender-based inequalities to constrain development processes. In the United Nations Development Programme Gender-related Development Index, Australia ranks in the top five across 177 countries, suggesting that the loss of human development due to gender inequality is minor. However, such analysis has not been systematically applied to the Indigenous Australian population, at least in…
Estimating the Accuracy of Geographic Variation in Indigenous Population Counts
The ABS 2006 Post-Enumeration Survey was extended to include a sample of localities from the whole of Australia, thereby providing an estimate of census net undercount reflective of the enumeration in remote Indigenous settlements for the first time. The
Demographic and Socioeconomic Outcomes Across the Indigenous Australian Lifecourse: Evidence from the 2006 Census
Across almost all standard indicators, the Indigenous population of Australia has worse outcomes than the non-Indigenous population. Despite the abundance of statistics and a plethora of government reports on Indigenous outcomes, there is very little information on how Indigenous disadvantage accumulates or is mitigated through time at the individual level. The research that
Longitudinal determinants of mobility: New evidence for Indigenous children and their carers
Demographic Consequences of the ‘Closing the Gap’ Indigenous Policy in Australia
The Relationship between Wellbeing and Indigenous Land, Language and Culture in Australia
A consistent finding in the literature on Indigenous peoples is the importance of the sustainability of land, language and culture. All three are related, with the maintenance of one helping to protect the others. This paper uses a nationally representative, cross-sectional survey of the Indigenous Australian population to look at the factors associated with individual measures of sustainability. Geography matters for those in remote areas who ar…
Indigenous Australian population projections: Problems and prospects
The Relationship between Community and Individual Measures of Wellbeing: Comparisons by remoteness for Indigenous Australians
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians, the wellbeing of the community in which one lives and/or has an ongoing attachment to is an important aspect of individual health and wellbeing. In non-Indigenous policy discourse, the main way to summarise community-level wellbeing is through indices of socioeconomic outcomes that can be used to rank regions or areas within regions. While these have been produced for the Indigen…
Recent Change in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Population and Housing Geographies
The intercensal period (2006-2011) was a time of significant policy and population change in Indigenous affairs. The aim of this paper is to document the changing distribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population and housing geographies over that period. We use the Indigenous Region structure developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to show that Indigenous Australians grew at a rate that significantly outstrips the non-Indi…
Measuring and Analysing the Wellbeing of Australia's Indigenous Population
How gendered is ambition? Educational and occupational plans of Indigenous youth in Australia
The Social Geographies of Indigenous Population and Housing in Australia's Regional Urban Centres
In recent years, social scientists have turned increasing scholarly focus to the ‘post-colonial city’, as it relates to the lived experiences and socio-cultural worlds of urban-dwelling Indigenous peoples. In Australia, this literature is concerned primarily with issues of identity, power and representation in big cities. More conventional geographic analyses regarding socio-spatial, economic and demographic aspects of urban Indigenous experience…
Estimating small-area Indigenous cultural participation from synthetic survey data
Lack of data on the spatial distribution of the social conditions of Australia's Indigenous peoples has created difficulties in the allocation of government and community programs. Small-area estimation methods can overcome this lack of data, but typically require access to a unit record file. However, strict confidentiality rules applied to these unit record files may hinder the development of these models. In Australia, unit record data for the…
The Healthy Immigrant Effect: Patterns and Evidence from Four Countries
Insights for Indigenous Policy from the Applied Behavioural Sciences
People are neither completely rational, nor completely random in their decisions. Rather, they exhibit predictable biases that not only make it less likely that they will achieve their own stated desires, but also complicate the design and efficiency of public policy. These are some of the insights of the emerging applied behavioural sciences. With some notable exceptions, these insights have not always filtered through to policy formulation. Pol…
School (non-)attendance and ‘mobile cultures’: Theoretical and empirical insights from Indigenous Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians are significantly and substantially less likely to be attending school on a given day than their non-Indigenous counterparts. This has been shown to have long-term consequences for the development of the mainstream literacy and numeracy skills associated with formal schooling, as well as later school and employment outcomes. Reducing this gap is a key focus of government education pol…
Class, capital, and identity in Australian society
Despite a comparatively ‘flat’ social structure and lack of obvious class-based cleavages, Australian society is stratified by objective, multidimensional measures of social class. Using data from a July 2015 survey of a random sample of Australian citizens, latent class analysis identifies six class types in Australian society, based on the distributions of cultural, social, and economic capital among respondents. The resulting classes are categ…
Trends in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Multidomain Well-Being: Decomposing Persistent, Maturation, and Period Effects in Emerging Adulthood
We explore whether disadvantage exists in domain-specific happiness with Indigenous youth of Australia. Data were collected from 52,270 Australians aged 15–28 years, 4% of whom were Indigenous, and came from four birth cohorts with data collected between the years 1997 and 2013. Random and fixed effects decomposed differences in well-being into persistent (present at the earliest wave and consistent over time), maturation (changes over age), and …
Human Capital Development and Indigenous Peoples
In all countries for which data is available, Indigenous peoples have lower rates of formal educational participation and attainment than their non-Indigenous counterparts. There are many structural reasons for this, but it may in part be related to the perceived relationship between the costs and benefits of education. Human Capital Development and Indigenous Peoples systematically applies a human capital approach to educational policy, to help …
Identification et changements d'identification des Autochtones en Australie: Nouveaux Résultats Issus De l'Appariement De Microdonnées
Les Australiens autochtones représentent une faible part de la population, mais leurs caractéristiques démographiques sont spécifiques. Pour cette raison, le Bureau australien de statistiques (ABS) et les chercheurs en calculent régulièrement des estimations de cette population. Les changements d'identification (d'autochtone à non autochtone, ou l'inverse) contribuent à la dynamique de cette population. Jusqu'à présent, on ne disposait pas de don…
Sociology (27 works) · Political science (25 works) · Geography (23 works) · Indigenous (21 works) · Population (21 works) · Demography (19 works) · Economics (19 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Demographic economics (12 works)