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18_08: Parenthood and labour market outcomes

Isabelle Sin, Kabir Dasgupta and Gail Pacheco

18_07: Moving towards happiness

Arthur Grimes and Dennis Wesselbaum

18_06: Sustainable economic policy and well-being: The relationship between adjusted net savings and subjective well-being

Mubashir Qasim and Arthur Grimes

18_05: HRMI Civil and Political Rights Metrics: 2018 Technical Note

K Chad Clay, Ryan Bakker, Anne-Marie Brook, Daniel Hill and Amanda Murdie

18_04: Is internet on the right track? The digital divide, path dependence, and the rollout of New Zealand’s ultra-fast broadband

Eyal Apatov, Nathan Chappell and Arthur Grimes

18_03: How did removing student allowances for postgraduate study affect students’ choices?

Isabelle Sin, Eyal Apatov and David Maré

18_02: Worker flows, entry, and productivity in New Zealand’s construction industry

Adam Jaffe and Nathan Chappell

18_01: Absorptive capacity in New Zealand firms: Measurement and importance

Richard Harris and Trinh Le

17_15: What drives the gender wage gap? Examining the roles of sorting, productivity differences, and discrimination

Isabelle Sin, Steven Stillman and Richard Fabling

17_14: How political systems and social welfare policies affect well-being: A literature review

Robert MacCulloch

17_13: Valuing Sunshine

David Fleming, Arthur Grimes, Laurent Lebreton, David Maré and Peter Nunns

17_12: The longer term impacts of job displacement on labour market outcomes

Dean Hyslop and Wilbur Townsend

17_11: Including Forestry in an Emissions Trading Scheme: Lessons from New Zealand

Thomas Carver, Patrick Dawson and Suzi Kerr

17_10: Modelling the potential impact of New Zealand’s freshwater reforms on land-based Greenhouse Gas emissions

Adam Daigneault, Suzi Greenhalgh and Suzi Kerr

17_09: Housing, the ‘Great Income Tax Experiment’, and the intergenerational consequences of the lease

Andrew Coleman

17_08: Migration and Gender: Who Gains and in Which Ways?

Kate Preston and Arthur Grimes

17_07: Wages, Wellbeing and Location: Slaving Away in Sydney or Cruising on the Gold Coast

Arthur Grimes, Judd Ormsby and Kate Preston

17_06: Evolution of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Linking

Catherine Leining, Judd Ormsby and Suzi Kerr

17_05: Evolution of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Sectoral Coverage and Point of Obligation

Catherine Leining, Corey Allan and Suzi Kerr

17_04: Productivity and the Allocation of Skills

David Maré, Trinh Le, Richard Fabling and Nathan Chappell

17_03: The Effect of Fibre Broadband on Student Learning

Arthur Grimes and Wilbur Townsend

17_02: More pensioners, less income inequality?

Omoniyi Alimi, David Maré and Jacques Poot

17_01: Facilitating Carbon Offsets from Native Forests

Thomas Carver and Suzi Kerr

16_22: Picking up speed: Does ultrafast broadband increase firm productivity?

Richard Fabling and Arthur Grimes

16_21: Urban Productivity Estimation with Heterogeneous Prices and Labour

David Maré

16_20: Who’s Going Green? Decomposing the Change in Household Consumption Emissions 2006 – 2012

Corey Allan and Suzi Kerr

16_19: Employment misclassification in survey and administrative reports

Dean Hyslop and Wilbur Townsend

16_18: Earnings Dynamics and Measurement Error in Matched Survey and Administrative Data

Dean Hyslop and Wilbur Townsend

16_17: Cows, Sheep and Science: A Scientific Perspective on Biological Emissions from Agriculture

Michele Hollis, Cecile de Klein, Dave Frame, Mike Harvey, Martin Manning, Andy Reisinger, Suzi Kerr and Anna Robinson

16_16: Agricultural Emissions Mitigation in New Zealand: Answers to Questions from the Parliamentary Commisioner for the Environment

Suzi Kerr

16_15: Yield to Change: Modelling the Land-use Response to Climate-Driven Changes in Pasture Production

Levente Timar

16_14: Intangible Investment and Firm Performance

Nathan Chappell and Adam Jaffe

16_13: The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme de-link from Kyoto: impacts on banking and prices

Suzi Kerr and Judd Ormsby

16_12: Income or Consumption: Which Better Predicts Subjective Wellbeing?

Thomas Carver and Arthur Grimes

16_11: Higher education institutions and regional growth: The case of New Zealand

Eyal Apatov and Arthur Grimes

16_10: The Effect of Trial Periods in Employment on Firm Hiring Behaviour

Nathan Chappell and Isabelle Sin

16_09: Does money grow on trees? Mitigation under climate policy in a heterogeneous sheep-beef sector

Levente Timar

16_08: Productivity distribution and drivers of productivity growth in the construction sector

Adam Jaffe, Trinh Le and Nathan Chappell

16_07: Labour market dynamics following a regional disaster

Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and Levente Timar

16_06: Lessons Learned from the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme

Catherine Leining and Suzi Kerr

16_05: Subjective wellbeing impacts of national and subnational fiscal policies

Arthur Grimes, Judd Ormsby, Anna Robinson and Siu Yuat Wong

16_04: Two Countries, Sixteen Cities, Five Thousand Kilometres: How Many Housing Markets?

Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, Arthur Grimes and Mark Holmes

16_03: A Rough Guide to New Zealand's Longitudinal Business Database (2nd edition)

Richard Fabling and Lynda Sanderson

16_02: Can “happiness data” help evaluate economic policies?

Robert MacCulloch

16_01: The specification of dynamic discrete-time two-state panel data models

Tue Gørgens and Dean Hyslop

15_20: Residential Assimilation of Immigrants: A Cohort Approach

David Maré, Ruth Pinkerton and Jacques Poot

15_19: Before a Fall: Impacts of Earthquake Regulation and Building Codes on the Commercial Building Market

Levente Timar, Arthur Grimes and Richard Fabling

15_18: Firm Productivity Growth and Skill

David Maré, Dean Hyslop and Richard Fabling

15_17: Addressing the absence of hours information in linked employer-employee data

Richard Fabling and David Maré

15_16: Predicting harvestability of existing Pinus radiata stands: 2013-2030 projections of stumpage profits from pre-90 and post-89 forests

Matt Thirkettle and Suzi Kerr