Youth Allowance and the Financial Position of Young Australians
type="main" xml:lang="en"> This article uses data that follow young Australians to their mid-20s to assess how their views of their financial position change as their circumstances change. Full-time students in receipt of Youth Allowance are the least satisfied about their financial position, even among other students, and experience more financial ‘stress’-related incidents than other young people. Little of these differences from other groups seem to be a consequence of the receipt of Youth Allowance. Furthermore, the differences do not translate into recipients having lower levels of life satisfaction, unlike young people in receipt of other forms of government income support.
Stressors among young Australian university students: A qualitative study.
OBJECTIVE
To explore stressors among young university students.


PARTICIPANTS
Twenty-nine 18- to 25-year-old university students.


METHOD
Four focus group discussions (n = 29) were conducted to explore mental health and stressors among domestic and international university students. Data was analyzed using thematic analysis to identify emerging themes and relationships.


RESULTS
Five primary stressors emerged from the data: Balance, Interpersonal Relationships, Future Prospects, Performance Pressure and Financial Issues and Employment. Although many distinct relationships were identified between themes, "Balance" affected and influenced most other stressors.


CONCLUSIONS
Five stressors were identified, most of which related to a lack of balance and time-management. Too many competing commitments and difficulty prioritizing were key influences. Interventions and policy to address stressors in students may reduce student psychological stress. Universities can provide support for students to prioritize commitments, provide flexible study opportunities and offer financial guidance.
Inequality among Young Adult Siblings, Public Assistance Programs, and Intergenerational Living Arrangements
In this paper we examine the allocation of resources in the form of shared housing provided by parents to their young adult children in the context of a model in which there are multiple optimizing offspring. We set out a framework for estimation that considers the constraints of available data for studying these family interactions, in particular, the problem that the characteristics and decisions of all adult siblings affect parental decisions and thus need to be accounted for in empirical analyses. Application of the intergenerational family framework to longitudinal data on the residence patterns of adult siblings and on state-specific welfare benefits indicates that results concerning cross-sib interactions are not robust to estimation procedure in part because of the difficulty of measuring all adult sib characteristics when families differ in sib-size. An estimation procedure that controls for all permanent and transitory parent characteristics as well as the influence of varying family sizes and sib characteristics, and passes at least one specification test, indicates that family-sib interactions are significant in the parental provision of shared housing.