Working papers

Unanimity under Ambiguity

By Simona Fabrizi, Steffen Lippert, Addison Pan and Matthew Ryan
Economics Working Paper Series 21/07


Is it Time to Let go of the Past? Effect of Clean Slate Regulation on Employment and Earnings

By Kabir Dasguta, Keshar Ghimire and Alexander Plum
Economics Working Paper Series 21/06


Suddenly a Stay-At-Home Dad? Short- and Long-term Consequences of Fathers' Job Loss on Time Investment in the Household

By Juliane Hennecke and Astrid Pape
Economics Working Paper Series 21/05


The Climate PoLicy ANalysis (C-PLAN) Model, Version 1.0

By Niven Winchester and Dominic White
Economics Working Paper Series 21/04


Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

By Juliane Hennecke and Clemens Hetschko
Economics Working Paper Series 21/03


Persistent and Transient Inefficiency of Australian States and Territories in Providing Public Hospital Services: An Application of Bayesian Stochastic Finite Mixture Frontier Analysis

By Antony Andrews, Omphile Temoso and Sean Kimpton
Economics Working Paper Series 21/02


Initial Beliefs Uncertainty and Information Weighting in the Estimation of Models with Adaptive Learning

By Jaqueson Galimberti
Economics Working Paper Series 21/01


Human Capital Formation and Changes in Low Pay Persistence

By Kabir Dasgupta and Alexander Plum
Economics Working Paper Series 20/15


Application of the CLEAN Algorithm to Three Dimensional Coded Aperture Imaging

By Kevin Byard
Economics Working Paper Series 20/14


In and Out of Unemployment - Labour Market Transitions and the Role of Testosterone

By Peter Eibich, Ricky Kanabar, Alexander Plum and Julian Schmied
Economics Working Paper Series 20/13


The Devil is in the Details: Identifying the Unbiased Link between Access to Alcohol and Criminal Behavior

By Kabir Dasgupta, Christopher Erwin and Alexander Plum
Economics Working Paper Series 20/12


Predicting the National Football League Potential of College Quarterbacks

By J. Dean Craig and Niven Winchester
Economics Working Paper Series 20/11


Heterogeneity in Criminal Behavior after Child Birth: The Role of Ethnicity

By Kabir Dasgupta, AndrĂ© Diegmann, Tom Kirchmaier and Alexander Plum
Economics Working Paper Series 20/10


Impact of State Children’s Health Insurance Program on Fertility of Immigrant Women

By Kabir Dasgupta, Keshar Ghimire, Alexander Plum
Economics Working Paper Series 20/09


When there is no way up: Reconsidering low-paid jobs as stepping stones

By Gail Pacheco, Alexander Plum
Economics Working Paper Series 20/08


Measuring Inequality using Geospatial Data

By Jaqueson K. Galimberti, Stefan Pichler, Regina Pleninger
Economics Working Paper Series 20/07


Performance-based aid, enhanced advising, and the income gap in college graduation: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

By Christopher Erwin, Melissa Binder, Cynthia Miller, Kate Krause
Economics Working Paper Series 20/06


Reconciling Dominance and Stochastic Transitivity in Random Binary Choice

By Matthew Ryan
Economics Working Paper Series 20/05


Information weighting under least squares adaptive learning

By Jaqueson K. Galimberti
Economics Working Paper Series 20/04


The Independent Woman - Locus of Control and Female Labor Force

By Juliane Hennecke
Economics Working Paper Series 20/03


Forecasting GDP growth from outer space

By Jaqueson K. Galimberti
Economics Working Paper Series 20/02


Firms’ Asset Holdings and Inflation Expectations

By Saten Kumar
Economics Working Paper Series 20/01


Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: Evidence from England

By Alexander Plum and Gundi Knies
This paper was published in PLOS ONE


Health Care Homes: Early Evidence from Linked Administrative Data in New Zealand

By Kabir Dasgupta and Gail Pacheco
This paper was published in the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy


The Effect of Interest Rate Caps on Bankruptcy: Synthetic Control Evidence from Recent Payday Lending Bans

By Kabir Dasgupta and Brenden Mason 
Economics Working Paper Series 19/04


Low-performing student responses to state merit scholarships

By Christopher Erwin 
Economics Working Paper Series 19/02


The British Low-Wage Sector and the Employment Prospects of the Unemployed

By Alexander Plum 
Economics Working Paper Series 18/08


Evaluating the Impact of 20 Hours Free Early Childhood Education on Womens' Labour Force Participation and Earnings

By Isabelle Bouchard, Lydia Cheng and Gail Pacheco
Economics Working Paper Series 18/05


Maternal smoking during pregnancy and child weight outcomes: new evidence from longitudinal data

By Kabir Dasgupta, Keshar M. Ghimire and Gail Pacheco
Economics Working Paper Series 18/04


Evaluating the Impact of Mothers' Self-esteem on Early Childhood Home Environment: Evidence from the NLSY

By Tirthatanmoy Das and Kabir Dasgupta
Economics Working Paper Series 18/03


Land Use Regulation, the redevelopment Premium and House Prices

By Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, Gail Pacheco and Kade Sorensen
Economics Working Paper Series18/02


The economists and New Zealand population: problems and policies 1900-1980s

By Geoffrey Brooke, Anthony Endres and Alan Rogers
This paper was published in the journal of New Zealand Economics Papers, Volume 52, Issue 2


Empirical evidence of the gender pay gap in NZ

By Gail Pacheco, Chao Li and Bill Cochrane
Economics Working Paper Series 17/05


Family Size Effects on Child Health: Evidence of the Quantity-Quality Trade-off using the NLSY

By Kabir Dasgupta and Keisha Solomon
Economics Working Paper Series 17/04
This paper was subsequently published in the journal of Economics & Human Biology, Volume 29, May 2018


Explaining ethnic disparities in bachelor's degree participation: Evidence from NZ

By Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco and Zoe Pushon
Economics Working Paper Series 17/03
This paper was subsequently published in the journal of Studies in Higher Education


Insights 2017: Findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

By Gundi Knies and Alexander Plum
Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex


Mutualism beyond the "mutual": The collective development of a New Zealand single industry town hospital

By Fiona Hurd and Suzette Dyer
This paper was published in the Labour History journal, Volume 112, May 2017 Issue.


The battle over employer-determined flexibility

By Erling Ramussen, Barry Foster (Massey), Deirdre Farr (Massey), Stefan Quifors, Warren Goodsir, and Paul Sutcliffe
This paper was published in the Employee Relations journal, Volume 38, Issue 6.


Warrantless arrest laws for domestic violence: How are youth affected?

By Kabir Dasgupta and Gail Pacheco
Economics Working Paper Series 16/07
This paper was subsequently published in The B.E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Volume 18, Issue 1
Other research relating to domestic violence-related child welfare legislation was also published in the Health Economics Letter, Volume 27


Youth Response to State Cyberbullying Laws

By Kabir Dasgupta
Economics Working Paper Series 16/05
This paper was subsequently published in the journal of New Zealand Economic Papers in May 2018.

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