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Are qualifications or job choice more important for recent graduates?
There are ongoing debates about the right quantity and mix of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills, and about whether other skills deliver similar benefits to employers and the economy at large. A new paper…
Fibre Broadband improves primary school students’ results
About two students at an average-sized primary school will reach the National Standards in reading, writing and mathematics because of the school’s access to fibre broadband. The New Zealand Government has spent $1.2 billion since 2008…
Rent week: Why we’re devoting a series to the reality of renting a NZ home in 2017
Renting in New Zealand is now the way most of us live. Unfortunately, in many ways, it sucks. Spinoff editor Duncan Greive explains why the Spinoff is dedicating a week to the issue.
Health benefits of insulation 'massive'
The benefit to cost ratio of insulating New Zealand's cold, unhealthy housing stock has been put at a startling 6 to 1 for the nation's most vulnerable. So if the evidence for insulating sick homes…
Using Data to Advance Dignity
Using Data to Advance Dignity: A new approach to measuring the Human Rights performance of countries, and how you can use it in your work Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Orozco Room,…
interest.co.nz Top Ten Reads
Motu researchers on the political benefits of destruction, Bill's datatopia, why meddling governments make you happy, the productivity gap, the Fed and fiscal policy, scaling the depths of bad puns, and more...
Bridging the gap between science and policy
In an ideal world, public policy would be grounded in evidence and research, drawing upon the best available knowledge from the disciplines of science, humanities and economics. In the real world, however, policy decisions are…
Researchers are from Mars, policymakers are from Venus: How can we bridge the divide?
Rigorous researchers and risk averse decision-makers must overcome their differences and work closer together if we are to achieve better public policy outcomes, Suzi Kerr writes in the PolicyForum from the Asia and the Pacific…
Suzi Kerr Interview in Asymmetric Information
The December 2016 issue of Asymmetric Info includes a long interview with Suzi Kerr by Lew Evans. They discuss how Suzi got into economics and how Motu began. Here... The issue also features an article on…
Government broadband investment policy and the ‘broadband productivity paradox’
Bronwyn Howell discusses Arthur Grimes's ultrafast broadband productivity paper at TechPolicyDaily.com. In 1987, scholar Robert Solow famously quipped that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Since then, considerable academic effort…
