Alfred Michael Dockery
Biographic Data
| ID | 321783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfred Michael Dockery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfred Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Dockery |
| SIGNATURE | DOCKERY A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4517-2442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Youth, Social Media, and Mental Health: Evidence from Australian Panel Data
Social media use has become ubiquitous among young people, yet evidence on its association with mental health remains limited and mixed. In this study, we use rich longitudinal data from Australia and measure social media use based on the frequency of active posting or sharing on social networking sites. We find that heavy social media use and addiction are associated with increased psychological distress, with the association concentrated among …
Club Membership, Social Capital Formation, and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Australia
This paper looks at the role of Individuals’ membership in clubs and associations in promoting social connections and building social capital in Australia. Using panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, around one-third of working-age Australians are found to be club members, with membership rates declining over this century. A principal component analysis of a set of variables relating to people’s social int…
Remote housing for Indigenous children in the Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia: A case study
Poor‐quality and overcrowded housing in remote communities in Australia is widely seen to negatively impact Indigenous children's health and development. Despite widespread reports of, in some instances, quite appalling housing conditions, recent analyses of data from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) found little evidence of adverse housing effects for Indigenous children living in very remote Australia. Given the apparent inc…
Secondary students’ access to careers information: The role of socio-economic background
Capturing Household Structure and Mobility within and between Remote Aboriginal Communities in Northern Australia Using Longitudinal Data: A Pilot Study
The lack of data on mixing patterns in populations where households can be organized across dwellings may impact the accuracy of infectious disease models for these communities and the efficacy of public health actions they inform
Inequality and access to services for remote populations: An Australian case study
Parental expectations of children’s higher education participation in Australia
The role of parental expectations in determining children's higher education participation is important in understanding both participation and potential policy responses. Using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of Australian households, providing repeat observations on expectations for individual children, this study extends the literature in several respects. First, it examines the adaptation of parental expectations over a 4‐year…
Inter-generational transmission of Indigenous culture and children’s wellbeing: Evidence from Australia
Parental expectations for young people's participation in higher education in Australia
This paper examines factors affecting parental expectations of higher education prospects for their children using Australian household survey data. We find that a variety of factors influence parental expectations, of which parents’ assessment of their children’s academic performance is the strongest. Factors known to impact upon actual higher education participation, such as parental education and remoteness, are already evident in parental exp…
Remittances and Happiness of Migrants and Their Home Households: Evidence Using Matched Samples
This paper explores how remittances influence happiness among migrants and their households of origin. It is based on a novel data set of matched samples of Bangladeshi migrant households (living in the UK and Malaysia) and their origin families in Bangladesh. Empirical findings suggest that remittances play a significant role in stimulating migrants’ happiness. We also find that the households of origin’s life satisfaction not only depends on re…
Equity in higher education and graduate labour market outcomes in Australia
c) 2017 Association for Tertiary Education Management and the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management. The rate of higher education participation in Australia has increased over the past decade for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. This study contributes to the knowledge on the outcomes of disadvantaged individuals who complete higher education by looking at the labour market outcomes of university graduates…
Sole-parent work schedules and adolescent wellbeing: Evidence from Australia
Promoting low socio-economic participation in higher education: A Comparison of Area-Based and Individual Measures
As with other countries, Australia has been grappling with the identification, measurement and impact of disadvantage in higher education. In particular, the measurement of socio-economic status (SES) has been of central concern. The immediate solution in Australia has been the introduction of an ‘area’ measure in which students' SES is categorised on the basis of census data for their neighbourhoods rather than on individual or household data. T…
A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Culture and Wellbeing: The Case of Indigenous Australians
The Long-run Decline in Employment Participation for Australian Public Housing Tenants: An Investigation
In the 20 years from 1982 to 2002, the proportion of Australian public housing tenants in employment has fallen markedly relative to Australians living in other housing tenures. This paper explores the potential causes of this trend and their policy implications. For male public renters, the declining employment participation rate can be accounted for by closer targeting of public housing to the most disadvantaged in the labour market and blunter…
Parents' work patterns and adolescent mental health
An Evaluation of a Parenting Payment Intervention Program
This paper analyses the effect of a pilot program to assist single parent claimants to lessen their dependence on social security benefits. A sample of about 5000 persons was randomly assigned to one control and two treatment groups. Those in the treatment groups were asked to attend an initial interview to help them plan for the future and were then referred to other forms of assistance that might help them to realise their plans. Using differen…
Culture and Wellbeing: The Case of Indigenous Australians
Parents' work patterns and adolescent mental health
Parental expectations for young people's participation in higher education in Australia
This paper examines factors affecting parental expectations of higher education prospects for their children using Australian household survey data. We find that a variety of factors influence parental expectations, of which parents’ assessment of their children’s academic performance is the strongest. Factors known to impact upon actual higher education participation, such as parental education and remoteness, are already evident in parental exp…
Promoting low socio-economic participation in higher education: A Comparison of Area-Based and Individual Measures
As with other countries, Australia has been grappling with the identification, measurement and impact of disadvantage in higher education. In particular, the measurement of socio-economic status (SES) has been of central concern. The immediate solution in Australia has been the introduction of an ‘area’ measure in which students' SES is categorised on the basis of census data for their neighbourhoods rather than on individual or household data. T…
Inter-generational transmission of Indigenous culture and children’s wellbeing: Evidence from Australia
Equity in higher education and graduate labour market outcomes in Australia
c) 2017 Association for Tertiary Education Management and the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management. The rate of higher education participation in Australia has increased over the past decade for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. This study contributes to the knowledge on the outcomes of disadvantaged individuals who complete higher education by looking at the labour market outcomes of university graduates…
The Long-run Decline in Employment Participation for Australian Public Housing Tenants: An Investigation
In the 20 years from 1982 to 2002, the proportion of Australian public housing tenants in employment has fallen markedly relative to Australians living in other housing tenures. This paper explores the potential causes of this trend and their policy implications. For male public renters, the declining employment participation rate can be accounted for by closer targeting of public housing to the most disadvantaged in the labour market and blunter…
A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Parental expectations of children’s higher education participation in Australia
The role of parental expectations in determining children's higher education participation is important in understanding both participation and potential policy responses. Using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of Australian households, providing repeat observations on expectations for individual children, this study extends the literature in several respects. First, it examines the adaptation of parental expectations over a 4‐year…
Sole-parent work schedules and adolescent wellbeing: Evidence from Australia
An Evaluation of a Parenting Payment Intervention Program
This paper analyses the effect of a pilot program to assist single parent claimants to lessen their dependence on social security benefits. A sample of about 5000 persons was randomly assigned to one control and two treatment groups. Those in the treatment groups were asked to attend an initial interview to help them plan for the future and were then referred to other forms of assistance that might help them to realise their plans. Using differen…
The Long-run Decline in Employment Participation for Australian Public Housing Tenants: An Investigation
In the 20 years from 1982 to 2002, the proportion of Australian public housing tenants in employment has fallen markedly relative to Australians living in other housing tenures. This paper explores the potential causes of this trend and their policy implications. For male public renters, the declining employment participation rate can be accounted for by closer targeting of public housing to the most disadvantaged in the labour market and blunter…
Parents' work patterns and adolescent mental health
Culture and Wellbeing: The Case of Indigenous Australians
Sole-parent work schedules and adolescent wellbeing: Evidence from Australia
Promoting low socio-economic participation in higher education: A Comparison of Area-Based and Individual Measures
As with other countries, Australia has been grappling with the identification, measurement and impact of disadvantage in higher education. In particular, the measurement of socio-economic status (SES) has been of central concern. The immediate solution in Australia has been the introduction of an ‘area’ measure in which students' SES is categorised on the basis of census data for their neighbourhoods rather than on individual or household data. T…
A Wellbeing Approach to Mobility and its Application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Remittances and Happiness of Migrants and Their Home Households: Evidence Using Matched Samples
This paper explores how remittances influence happiness among migrants and their households of origin. It is based on a novel data set of matched samples of Bangladeshi migrant households (living in the UK and Malaysia) and their origin families in Bangladesh. Empirical findings suggest that remittances play a significant role in stimulating migrants’ happiness. We also find that the households of origin’s life satisfaction not only depends on re…
Equity in higher education and graduate labour market outcomes in Australia
c) 2017 Association for Tertiary Education Management and the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management. The rate of higher education participation in Australia has increased over the past decade for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. This study contributes to the knowledge on the outcomes of disadvantaged individuals who complete higher education by looking at the labour market outcomes of university graduates…
Parental expectations for young people's participation in higher education in Australia
This paper examines factors affecting parental expectations of higher education prospects for their children using Australian household survey data. We find that a variety of factors influence parental expectations, of which parents’ assessment of their children’s academic performance is the strongest. Factors known to impact upon actual higher education participation, such as parental education and remoteness, are already evident in parental exp…
Inter-generational transmission of Indigenous culture and children’s wellbeing: Evidence from Australia
Secondary students’ access to careers information: The role of socio-economic background
Capturing Household Structure and Mobility within and between Remote Aboriginal Communities in Northern Australia Using Longitudinal Data: A Pilot Study
The lack of data on mixing patterns in populations where households can be organized across dwellings may impact the accuracy of infectious disease models for these communities and the efficacy of public health actions they inform
Inequality and access to services for remote populations: An Australian case study
Parental expectations of children’s higher education participation in Australia
The role of parental expectations in determining children's higher education participation is important in understanding both participation and potential policy responses. Using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of Australian households, providing repeat observations on expectations for individual children, this study extends the literature in several respects. First, it examines the adaptation of parental expectations over a 4‐year…
Remote housing for Indigenous children in the Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia: A case study
Poor‐quality and overcrowded housing in remote communities in Australia is widely seen to negatively impact Indigenous children's health and development. Despite widespread reports of, in some instances, quite appalling housing conditions, recent analyses of data from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) found little evidence of adverse housing effects for Indigenous children living in very remote Australia. Given the apparent inc…
Youth, Social Media, and Mental Health: Evidence from Australian Panel Data
Social media use has become ubiquitous among young people, yet evidence on its association with mental health remains limited and mixed. In this study, we use rich longitudinal data from Australia and measure social media use based on the frequency of active posting or sharing on social networking sites. We find that heavy social media use and addiction are associated with increased psychological distress, with the association concentrated among …
Club Membership, Social Capital Formation, and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Australia
This paper looks at the role of Individuals’ membership in clubs and associations in promoting social connections and building social capital in Australia. Using panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, around one-third of working-age Australians are found to be club members, with membership rates declining over this century. A principal component analysis of a set of variables relating to people’s social int…
Economics (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works)