Curtin University Homepage
  • Library
  • Help
    • Admin

    espace - Curtin’s institutional repository

    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
    View Item 
    • espace Home
    • espace
    • Curtin Research Publications
    • View Item
    • espace Home
    • espace
    • Curtin Research Publications
    • View Item

    The Impact of Children on Australian Couples' Wealth Accumulation

    229688_229688.pdf (1.244Mb)
    Access Status
    Open access
    Authors
    Dockery, Alfred Michael
    Bawa, Sherry
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Citation
    Dockery, A.M. and Bawa, S. 2015. The Impact of Children on Australian Couples' Wealth Accumulation. Economic Record. 91 (S1): pp. 139-150.
    Source Title
    Economic Record
    DOI
    10.1111/1475-4932.12194
    ISSN
    0013-0249
    School
    John Curtin Institute of Public Policy (JCIPP)
    Remarks

    This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Dockery, A.M. and Bawa, S. 2015. The Impact of Children on Australian Couples' Wealth Accumulation. Economic Record. 91 (S1): pp. 139-150, which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12194. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving at http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms

    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16540
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Existing estimates of the cost of children focus on what parents spend on their children, which has limited relevance to parents’ financial capacity to meet those costs. An alternative indicator of the affordability of children, their impact upon couples’ wealth accumulation, is estimated using the lifecycle model and Australian household panel data. The results suggest children have a very small impact upon wealth accumulation, seemingly at odds with the large ‘costs’ implied from expenditure-based estimates. In reconciling these highly divergent estimates we argue that the net-wealth approach is an intuitively more appealing indicator of the financial impost of children.

    Related items

    Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

    • The relationship between intergenerational transfers, housing and economic outcomes
      Barrett, G.; Cigdem, M.; Whelan, S.; Wood, Gavin (2015)
      Home ownership represents an important social and economic cornerstone of Australian society. In addition to providing security of tenure, ownership has represented an important savings vehicle by which Australians can ...
    • The relationship between intergenerational transfers, housing and economic outcomes
      Barrett, G.; Cigdem, M.; Whelan, S.; Wood, Gavin (2015)
      As house prices in Australia have increased, concern has been expressed about the ability of young Australians to attain home ownership. In August 2014, for example, the proportion of all mortgage financed dwelling ...
    • A randomised comparison trial to evaluate an in-home parent-directed drug education intervention
      Beatty, Shelley Ellen (2003)
      The long-term regular use of tobacco and hazardous alcohol use are responsible for significant mortality and morbidity as well as social and economic harm in Australia each year. There is necessary the more cost-efficient ...
    Advanced search

    Browse

    Communities & CollectionsIssue DateAuthorTitleSubjectDocument TypeThis CollectionIssue DateAuthorTitleSubjectDocument Type

    My Account

    Admin

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    Follow Curtin

    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 

    CRICOS Provider Code: 00301JABN: 99 143 842 569TEQSA: PRV12158

    Copyright | Disclaimer | Privacy statement | Accessibility

    Curtin would like to pay respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of our community by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which the Perth campus is located, the Whadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation; and on our Kalgoorlie campus, the Wongutha people of the North-Eastern Goldfields.