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22_14: Evaluation of the Warmer Kiwis Homes Programme: Full Report including Cost Benefit Analysis

Caroline Fyfe, Arthur Grimes, Shannon Minehan and Phoebe Taptiklis

22_13: Evaluation of the Warmer Kiwis Homes Programme: Summary Report including Cost Benefit Analysis

Caroline Fyfe, Arthur Grimes, Shannon Minehan and Phoebe Taptiklis

22_12: Modelling private land-use decisions affecting forest cover: the effect of land tenure and environmental policy

Levente Timar

22_11: Valuing forest ecosystem services in New Zealand

Hannah Kotula

22_10: Gendered parenting and the intergenerational transmission of gendered stereotypes: Evidence from the Growing Up in New Zealand survey

Livvy Mitchell, Isabelle Sin, Maanaima Soa-Lafoai and Colleen Ward

22_09: The impact of the 2018 Families Package Winter Energy Payment policy

Dean Hyslop, Lynn Riggs and David Maré

22_08: Carbon Policy Design and Distributional Impacts: What does the research tell us?

Lynn Riggs

22_07: How does persecution affect who migrates? We analyze migrants’ self-selection out of the USSR and its satellite states before and after the collapse of Communism using census microdata from the three largest destination countries: Germany, Israel, and the United States. We find that migrants arriving before and around the time of the collapse (who were more likely to have moved because of persecution) were more educated and had better labor market outcomes in the destination than those arriving later. This change is not fully explained by the removal of emigration restrictions in the Communist Bloc. Instead, we show that this pattern is consistent with more positive self-selection of migrants who are motivated by persecution. When the highly educated disproportionately forgo migrating to enjoy the amenities of their home country, persecution can induce them to leave

Ran Abramitzky, Travis Baseler and Isabelle Sin

22_06: Estimating the impact of the Families Package changes in financial incentives

Lynn Riggs, Dean Hyslop and David Maré

22_05: Effective pathways through education to good labour market outcomes for M?ori: Literature summary

Isabelle Sin, Shannon Minehan and Nicholas Watson

22_04: Accounting for social difference when measuring cultural diversity

David Maré and Jacques Poot

22_03: Who benefits from firm success? Heterogeneous rent-sharing in New Zealand

Corey Allan and David Maré

22_02: Warmer Kiwis Study: Interim Report. An impact evaluation of the Warmer Kiwi Homes programme

Caroline Fyfe, Arthur Grimes, Shannon Minehan and Phoebe Taptiklis

22_01: The impact of the 2018 Families Package Accommodation Supplement area changes on housing outcomes

Dean Hyslop and David Maré

21_16: How climate affects agricultural land values in Aotearoa New Zealand

Farnaz Pourzand and Kendom Bell

21_15: Do workers share in firm success? Pass-through estimates for New Zealand

Corey Allan and David Maré

21_14: Methodology for Modelling Distributional Impacts of Emissions Budgets on Employment in New Zealand

Lynn Riggs and Livvy Mitchell

21_13: Future Options for Industrial Free Allocation in the NZ ETS

Benjamin Rontard and Catherine Leining

21_12: Monitoring the enjoyment of the rights to adequate housing and health care and protection in Aotearoa New Zealand

Livvy Mitchell, Paddy Baylis and Susan Randolph

21_11: Finding the Gaps: Finding the Gaps: Monitoring Economic and Social Rights in the Pacific

Susan Randolph and Shaan Badenhorst

21_10: Monitoring Economic and Social Rights in the Pacific

Susan Randolph and Shaan Badenhorst

21_09: Understanding the Origins of Populist Political Parties and the Role of External Shocks

Eugenio Levi, Isabelle Sin and Steven Stillman

21_08: The Drivers of Mothers’ Parental Leave Decisions: Evidence from the Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal survey

Shakked Noy and Isabelle Sin

21_07: Predicted Distributional Impacts of Climate Change Policy on Employment

Lynn Riggs and Livvy Mitchell

21_06: Involuntary job loss: Welfare effects, earnings impacts, and policy options

Isabelle Sin, Dean Hyslop, David Maré and Shakked Noy

21_05: Of interest? Estimating the average interest rate on debt across firms and over time

Richard Fabling

21_04: Permanent forest investment in a climate of uncertainty

Arthur Grimes and Sandra Cortés Acosta

21_03: Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and practice in the 21st century

David Maré and Dean Hyslop

21_02: Covid-19 wage subsidy support and effects

David Maré and Dean Hyslop

21_01: Living on the edge: An anatomy of New Zealand’s most productive firms

Richard Fabling

20_14: A Growing Problem: Exploring Livestock Farm Resilience to Droughts in Unit Record Data

Levente Timar and Eyal Apatov

20_13: Challenges and opportunities with native forestry on M?ori land

Pia Pohatu, Sophie O’Brien and Leo Mercer

20_12: Research Funding and Collaboration

Benjamin Davies, Jason Gush, Shaun C. Hendy and Adam Jaffe

20_11: Decision trees: Forestry in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme post-2020

Sandra Cortés Acosta, Arthur Grimes and Catherine Leining

20_09: The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously

Arthur Grimes, Stephen Jenkins and Florencia Tranquilli

20_08: Delineating functional labour market areas with estimable classification stabilities

Benjamin Davies and David Maré

20_07: Modelling urban development in New Zealand

Stuart Donovan, Arthur Grimes and David Maré

20_06: How does Monetary Policy affect welfare?

Lina El-Jahel, Robert MacCulloch and Hamed Shafiee

20_05: Measuring commute patterns over time: Using administrative data to identify where employees live and work

Richard Fabling and David Maré

20_04: Hometown whanau or big city millennials? The economic geography of graduate destination choices in New Zealand

Arthur Grimes, Shaan Badenhorst, David Maré and Jacques Poot

20_02: Projecting the effect of climate change-induced increases in extreme rainfall on residential property damages: A case study from New Zealand

Jacob Pastor-Paz, Ilan Noy, Isabelle Sin, Abha Sood, David Fleming-Munoz and Sally Owen

20_01: Why are there more accidents on Mondays? Economic incentives, ergonomics or externalities

Michelle Poland, Isabelle Sin and Steven Stillman

19_23: Ultra-fast broadband, skill complementarities, gender and wages

Richard Fabling and Arthur Grimes

19_22: Occupational drift in New Zealand: 1976-2018

David Maré

19_21: Is the pay of medical specialists in New Zealand gender biased?

Isabelle Sin and Bronwyn Bruce-Brand

19_20: Commuting to diversity

David Maré and Jacques Poot

19_19: EQC and extreme weather events (part 2): Measuring the impact of insurance on New Zealand landslip, storm and flood recovery using nightlights

Sally Owen, Ilan Noy, Jacob Pástor-Paz and David Fleming

19_18: Measuring the “gig” economy: Challenges and options

Lynn Riggs, Isabelle Sin and Dean Hyslop

19_17: Digital inclusion and wellbeing in New Zealand

Arthur Grimes and Dominic White

19_16: Competition and productivity: Do commonly used metrics suggest a relationship?

David Maré and Richard Fabling