Barbara Broadway

PARENTS WITH CHILDREN AT HOME REACH BREAKING POINT

Barbara Broadway, Susan Mendez, Julie Moschion

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Parents are reporting high levels of mental stress amid the COVID-19 economic downturn, highlighting that we need new policies to ..

Help! High Levels of Parents’ Mental Distress

Barbara Broadway, Julie Moschion, Susan Mendez

Report  |  2020

Of the close to 5 million parents with children under 18 in Australia, 24 percent have reported high rates of mental distress sinc..

Childcare a Challenge For Poorer Single Parents

Barbara Broadway, Esperanza Vera-Toscano

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

The HILDA Survey suggests single-parent households in Australia are abandoning formal childcare as they face greater poverty rates..

Single parents are getting priced out of daycare, triggering a vicious cycle of entrenched poverty

Barbara Broadway, Esperanza Vera-Toscano

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Female workforce participation has risen for the past two decades in Australia, and in turn, more young kids have been attending f..

PARENTS OF SCHOOL-AGE KIDS DURING COVID-19? YES, YOU’RE STRESSED

Barbara Broadway, Julie Moschion, Susan Mendez

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Behind closed doors: the surge in mental distress of parents

Barbara Broadway, Susan Mendez, Julie Moschion

Report  |  2020

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent restrictions has had an alarming effect on Australians' m..

The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labor Supply and Employment Outcomes in Australia

B Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Duncan MCVICAR, Bill Martin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Feminist Economics

The introduction of the Australian Paid Parental Leave scheme in 2011 provides a rare opportunity to estimate the impacts of publi..

The Importance of Economic Expectations for Retirement Entry

Barbara Broadway, John P de New

Journal article  |  2019  |  Review of Income and Wealth

We estimate hazard rates of retirement entry as a function of the option value of work. Individuals’ economic expectations about t..

Employment effects of job counseling for disability insurance recipients

Barbara Broadway, Sonja KASSENBOEHMER

Report  |  2019

Many countries implement policies to promote labor market inclusion of disability support recipients. It is unclear whether such m..

Keep calm and consume? Subjective uncertainty and precautionary savings

Barbara Broadway, John P Haisken-DeNew

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Economics and Finance

This paper estimates the effect of income uncertainty on assets held in accounts and cash, and finds substantial empirical evidenc..