Publications in Medicine & Public Health
[8] Hammersley ML, Dekker GA, Gurrin LC, Hoon EA, Schurer S, Lynch JW, Aldred M, Dalton J, Fletcher CJ, Smithers LG (2025). The use of financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnant women: A parallel-group randomised controlled trial protocol. Addiction 120(6): 1260-1270. doi: 10.1111/add.70004.
[7] Luu, B., Amy Conley Wright, Stefanie Schurer, Susan Collings, Laura Metcalfe, Susan Heward-Belle, Emma L Barrett (2025). Understanding families with multiple and complex needs in the child protection system through the lens of linked administrative data in New South Wales, Australia. Child Protection and Practice 6, 100224.
[6] Mitrou F, Milroy H, Coffin J, Hamilton SL, Brennan-Jones CG, Schurer S, Davis EA, Richmond P, Passmore HM, Pearson G, Brown A, O'Donnell M, Bowen AC, Azzopardi P, Conigrave KM, Downs J, Cooper MM, Ramsey KA, Ferrante A, Johnson SE, Cave L, Vlaskovsky P, Hopkins KD, D'Antoine HA, Wilkes T, Zubrick SR (2024). Cohort profile: Understanding the influence of early life environments and health and social service system contacts over time and across generations through the Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey (WAACHS) Linked Data Study. BMJ Open 2;14(10): e087522. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087522.
[5] Moreno-Betancur, M., Lynch, J.W., Pilkington, R. M. , Schuch, H.S., Gialamas, A., Sawyer, M.G., Chittleborough, C.R., Schurer, S., Gurrin, L.C. (2023). Emulating a target trial of intensive nurse home-visiting in the policy-relevant population using linked administrative data. International Journal of Epidemiology 52(1), 119–131.
[4] Glozier, N, Morris, R., Schurer, S. (2022). What happened to the predicted COVID-19 induced suicide epidemic, and why? Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Oct 2022. doi.org/10.1177/000486742211315 [LINK]
[3] Butterworth, P., Schurer, S., Trong-Ahn, T., Vera-Toscano. E., Wooden, M. (2022). The effect of lockdowns on mental health: evidence from a natural experiment analysing an Australian longitudinal probability sample survey. The Lancet Public Health. Volume 7, Issue 5, May 2022, Pages e427-e436. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00082-2.
[2] Elkins, R., Schurer, S. (2017). Introducing a GP copayment in Australia: Who would carry the cost burden? Health Policy. 121(5), 543-552.
[1] Joyce, C. Schurer, S., Scott, A., Humphreys, J., Kalb, G. (2011). Are doctors satisfied with their work? Results from the MABEL longitudinal survey of doctors. Medical Journal of Australia 194(1), 30-33.
By invitation
Farmer, A., and Schurer, S. (2025). Human Capital Formation of Indigenous People. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Editor: Klaus Zimmermann. Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6.
Schurer, S. (2017). Does education strengthen life skills of adolescents? IZA World of Labor. June 366.
Schurer, S., Yong, J. (2016). Happiness, income, and heterogeneity. Singapore Economic Review 61(3), 1-23. By invitation for special issue in memory and honor of Prof. Ezra J. Mishan, Guest editor: Euston Quah, Nanyang Technological University.
NHMRC Partnership Project in the Northern Territory (NHMRC Partnership Project 2014-2017): Silburn S, Guthridge S, McKenzie J, Su J-Y, He V, Haste S (Eds.) Early Pathways to School Learning: Lessons from the NT Data Linkage Study. Darwin: Menzies School of Health Research. The full monograph is available here: [LINK] .
Schurer, S., Nutton, G., McKenzie, J., Su, J., Silburn, S. (2018). Preschool participation, school attendance and academic achievement. Early Pathways to School Learning Lessons from the NT data linkage study, (pp. 111-128). 🗞️ The Australian (25 September 2018), The Sector (27 Sep 2018); The Educator Online (27 Sep 2018).
Su, J., Silburn, S., Schurer, S., Guthridge, S., He, V., McKenzie, J. (2018). Early life health and development. Early Pathways to School Learning Lessons from the NT data linkage study, (pp. 29-61).
He, V., Su, J., McKenzie, J., Schurer, S. (2018). School attendance. Early Pathways to School Learning Lessons from the NT data linkage study, (pp. 91-109).
Silburn, S., Guthridge, S., Midford, R., Brimblecombe, J., Walter, M., Bodkin-Andrews, G., Schurer, S., Shaw, P. (2018). The NT Data Linkage Study. Early Pathways to School Learning Lessons from the NT data linkage study, (pp. 1-9).
PUBLIC COMMENTARY
Atalay, K., Edwards, R., Schurer, S., Ubilava, D. (2020). Lives saved during economic downturns: Evidence from Australia. Vox.EU, 2 November 2020 [LINK]
Atalay, K., Edwards, R., Schurer, S., Ubilava, D. (2020). So you think economic downturns cost lives? Our findings show they don’t. The Conversation, 25 November 2020 [LINK]
Schurer, S. (2019). We need new education spending priorities to build the skills of the future. OECD Economic Forum 2019/Forum Network, 21 May 2019 [LINK]
Elkins, R., Schurer, S. (2017). If GPs pass on cost from rebate freeze, poorer, sicker patients will be hardest hit. The Conversation, 31 January 2017 [LINK]
Elkins, R., Schurer, S. (2017). FactCheck: are bulk-billing rates falling, or at record levels? The Conversation, 10 February 2017 [LINK]
IN A PREVIOUS LIFE
Fertig, M., Schurer, S. (2007). Labour market outcomes of immigrants in Germany: The importance of heterogeneity and attrition bias. IZA Discussion Paper Nr 2915. IZA Bonn. [Published during PhD training]