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Education

‘High’-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes. Cobb-Clark, D. A., Kassenboehmer, S. C., Le, T., McVicar, D., & Zhang, R. (2015a). The Economic Record, 91(293), 247–266.
Is there an educational penalty for being suspended from school? Cobb-Clark, D. A., Kassenboehmer, S. C., Le, T., McVicar, D., & Zhang, R. (2015b). Education Economics, 23(4), 376–395.
Grimes A, Badenhorst S, Maré D, Poot J, Sin I. “Quality of life, quality of business, and destinations of recent graduates - Fields of study matter.” The Annals of Regional Science

Energy

Aperahama, R. Penny, G. Taptiklis P. (2025). Distributed renewable energy, equity and energy sharing schemes in Aotearoa New Zealand. In Eds. Viggers, H. Stuart, K. & Howden Chapman, P. Sharing the sun
Apperley M, Viggers H, Walmsley M, Chapman R, Howden Chapman P, Penny G, Shearer I & Taptiklis, P. The role of smart community microgrids in Aotearoa’s energy future. J R Soc N Z. 2025 Jan 27;1–20.
Taptiklis P, Fyfe C, Grimes A, Minehan S & Benison T. (2026) A New Zealand heatpump retrofit programme: Warmer Drier Happier Cheaper. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Taptiklis, P. Viggers, H. Chapman R. & Howden-Chapman, P. (in submission). Transitioning New Zealand's housing to low embodied carbon: Design and materials.

Environment

Grimes, Arthur, Shine Wu. Sustainable Consumption Growth: New Zealand’s Surprising Performance. New Zealand Economic Papers, forthcoming.
Including forestry in an emissions trading scheme: Lessons from New Zealand. Carver Thomas, Patrick Dawson, Sophie O’Brien, Hannah Kotula, Suzi Kerr and Catherine Leining. (2022). Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
Linking scientific research and energy innovation: A comparison of clean and dirty technologies. Perrons, R. K., Jaffe, A. B., & Le, T. (2021). Energy Research & Social Science, 78, 102122.
"Projecting the effect of climate change on residential property damages caused by extreme weather events," Isabelle Sin, Jacob Pastor-Paz, Ilan Noy, Abha Sood, David Fleming-Munoz and Sally Owen, Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 276, 111012 (2020), View paper (subscribers only); View Motu working paper version; Executive summary
Winchester, N. and D. White (2022). The Climate PoLicy ANalysis (C-PLAN) Model, Version 1.0, Energy Economics, 108.
Winchester, N. (2022). Climate Policy Insights from an open-source economy-wide model, New Zealand Economic Papers.
White, D. and N. Winchester (2022). The plastic intensity of industries in the US: The Devil wears plastic, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 28, 15-28

Housing

Bennett, J, Caroline Shorter, Amanda Kvalsvig, Lucy Telfar Barnard, Nick Wilson, Julian Crane, Jeroen Douwes, Chris Cunningham, Phoebe Taptiklis, Robyn Phipps, Bill Trompetter, Manfred Plagmann, Mikael Boulic, Jennifer Summers, Terri-Ann berry, Michael G Baker & Philippa Howden-Chapman. 2022. “Indoor Air quality, largely neglected and in urgent need of a refresh”. Letter to the Editor. NZMJ: 135(1559), 136-139.
Fyfe C., Telfar Barnard L., Howden-Chapman P. Douwes J, Crane J. Retrofitting home insulation reduces incidence and severity of chronic respiratory disease. Indoor Air.
Greenaway-McGrevy, R., So, Y., & Jones, J. A. (2025). Socio-geographic mobility and widespread zoning reform in Auckland. Urban Studies, 00420980261456915.
Howden-Chapman P, Crane J, Keall M, Pierse N, Baker M, Cunningham C, Amore K, Aspinall C, Bennett J, Bierre S, Boulic M, Chapman R, Chisholm E, Davies C, Fougere G, Fraser B, Fyfe C, Grant L, Grimes A, Halley C, Logan-Riley A, Nathan K, Olin C, Ombler J, O’Sullivan K, Pehei T, Penny G, Phipps R, Plagman M, Randal E, Riggs L, Robson B, Ruru J, Shaw C, Schrader B, Teariki M, Barnard L, Tiatia R, Toy-Cronin B, Tupara B, Viggers H, Wall T, Wilkie M, Woodward A, Zhang W. He Kāinga Oranga: 25 years of measuring how better housing can improve health, wellbeing and sustainability. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand,
Howden-Chapman P. Fyfe C, Nathan K, Keall M, Riggs L, Pierse N, (2021). The effects of housing on health and well-being in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Population Review. 47, 16-32.
Taptiklis, P., Phipps, R., Jones, M. & Douwes J. (2022) Associations of house characteristics with indoor dampness and measured moisture: Results from three New Zealand House Condition Surveys in 2005, 2010 and 2015, Building and Environment, 208.
Taptiklis, P., Phipps, R., Jones, M. & Douwes J. (2021) House characteristics and condition as determinants of visible mould and musty odour: Results from three New Zealand House Condition Surveys, in 2005 2010 and 2015, Indoor Air, 31 (3), 818-31.
Taptiklis, P. and Phipps, R. (2017) Indoor Air Quality in New Zealand Homes and Schools, ER9. Porirua: BRANZ.

Human rights

“Using practitioner surveys to measure human rights: The Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s civil and political rights metrics”
K Chad Clay, Ryan Bakker, Anne-Marie Brook, Daniel W Hill, Jr, Amanda Murdie, in Journal of Peace Research, October 2020. (Free PDF download)
“Human rights data for everyone: Introducing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI)” Anne-Marie Brook, K Chad Clay, and Susan Randolph, in Journal of Human Rights, Volume 19, No 3 (2020), pp 67-82. (Free PDF download)
K Chad Clay, Mennah Abdelwahab, Stephen Bagwell, Morgan Barney, Eduardo Burkle, Tori Hawley, Thalia Kehoe Rowden, Meridith LaVelle, Asia Parker and Matthew Rains, ‘The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights practices: Findings from the Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s 2021 Practitioner Survey’ (2022) Journal of Human Rights, 21:3, 317-333.

Innovation, science and management and government policy

Carraz, René and Nguyen, Van-Thien (Dorothie) and Pelletier, Pierre and Yang, Alex Jie and Higham, Kyle, Disruption Is Not Intrinsic: Evidence from Patent–Paper Pairs.
Higham, K., Buarque, B., & Baisden, T. (2025). Evidence-Based Policymaking and Public Management. Emerging empirical approaches. Policy Quarterly, 21(2), 38-47.
Higham, K., Kotula, H., Scharfmann, E., Gong, S., & de Rassenfosse, G. (2026). A dataset of scientific citations in US patent Office Actions. Scientific Data.
Higham, K., & Nagaoka, S. (2026). Language barriers and the speed of international knowledge diffusion. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-13.
Ryan‐Charleton, T., & Galavan, R. J. (2024). Multimarket contact between partners and strategic alliance survival. Strategic Management Journal. Early View Now Available Open Access.
Verluise, C., Cristelli, G., Higham, K., & de Rassenfosse, G. (2025). Beyond the front page: In‐text citations to patents as traces of inventor knowledge. Strategic Management Journal.

Macroeconomics and fiscal policy

Fry-McKibbin, R. & McDermott, C. J. 2025. Inflation Targeting and Monetary Policy in Practice: the Experience of the RBA and RBNZ, Book chapter.
Gill D, Gemmell N, Grimes A. 2025. The myth of the shrinking state in New Zealand revisited. Journal article Policy Quarterly, 21(2), 19-29.

Migration and knowledge diffusion

Alimi, O.B., Maré, D.C. and Poot, J., (2021) Who partners up? Homogamy and income inequality in New Zealand cities. Journal of Regional Science.
Alimi, O, Maré, D C & Poot, J (2022) “International migration and income distribution in New Zealand metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas” New Zealand Economic Papers
Alimi, O, Maré, D C & Poot, J (2022) “Immigration, skills and changing urban income inequality in New Zealand: two decomposition approaches” Australian Journal of Labour Economics. 25(1), 81-109.
Grimes A, Badenhorst S, Maré D, Poot J, Sin I. “Quality of life, quality of business, and destinations of recent graduates - Fields of study matter.” The Annals of Regional Science, 70(1), 55-80.
Fabling, Richard, Arthur Grimes, Levente Timar. Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: Country of birth matters. Regional Studies.
"The Gravity of Ideas: How distances affect translations," Isabelle Sin, The Economic Journal, (2018), 128(615), pp 2895-2932. View full paper via Wiley (subscribers only); Author draft; Online appendices; Data and code
"Book Translations as Idea Flows: The effects of the collapse of Communism on the diffusion of knowledge," Isabelle Sin with Ran Abramitzky, Journal of the European Economic Association, (2014), 12(6): 1453-1520. View full paper via Wiley (subscribers only); Author draft; Appendix; Online appendix; Data and Stata code
Tam, Diana, Arthur Grimes. “Migration of dual-earner couples: A subjective wellbeing approach.” Review of Economics of the Household, 21(1), 269-289.

Population and labour

Allan, C, Maré, D C & Hyslop, D (2024) “Monopsony in the New Zealand labour market: First estimates from administrative data” MBIE Occasional Paper 24/03. MBIE, Wellington, New Zealand, and IZA Discussion Paper 17614.
Augustine, J., Prickett K. C. (2005). Gender norms in transition? Parents’ housework and childcare time in the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Marriage and Family.
Bell E., Lépine A., Blanc Éloide., Treibich C., From drought to HIV: An analysis of the effect of droughts on transactional sex and sexually transmitted infections in Malawi, SSM - Population Health, 19, 2022
Fernández Intriago, L., Burrow, S., Chakraborty, S. et al. Overcoming five key challenges to make the energy transition a just labor transition. Nat Commun 16, 7541 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62905-5
Grimes, A., Preston, K., Maré, D. C, Badenhorst, S., & Donovan, S. (2021). The contrasting importance of quality of life and quality of business for domestic and international migrants. In W. Cochrane, M. P. Cameron, & O. Alimi (Eds.), Labor markets, migration, and mobility: Essays in honor of Jacques Poot (pp. 97–122). Springer Nature.
Fabling, Richard, Arthur Grimes, Levente Timar. Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: Country of birth matters. Regional Studies.
Maré, D.C. (2022) "The labor market in New Zealand, 2000-2021" IZA World of Labour: Country Studies IZA World of Labor 2022:427.
Nicolas Hérault, Dean Hyslop, Stephen Jenkins and Roger Wilkins. 2021 "Rising Top-Income Persistence in Australia: Evidence from Income Tax Data", IZA discussion paper, DP No. 14737, September (also London School of Economics, International Inequalities Institute Working Paper No. 69; CUNY Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper No. 44).
The gender wage gap among medical specialists: A quantitative analysis of the hourly pay of publicly employed senior doctors in New Zealand, Isabelle Sin, Bronwyn Bruce-Brand and Charlotte Chambers, BMJ Open (2021); 11:e045214. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045214.
Where to from here? Women remain absent from senior academic positions in Aotearoa New Zealand's universities, Isabelle Sin, L.A. Walker, C. Macinnis-Ng, K. Hannah, and T.G. McAllister, Education Sciences, 10(6), 152 (2020).
The effect of trial periods in employment on firm hiring behaviour, Isabelle Sin, Nathan Chappell, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 10(1), 20200009, (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/izajolp-2020-0009.
Why Are There More Accidents on Mondays? Economic Incentives, Ergonomics or Externalities. Isabelle Sin, with Michelle Poland and Steve Stillman, IZA Discussion Paper No. 12850, (2019).
Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand, Isabelle Sin with Steven Stillman, IZA Journal of Migration, (2016), 5:4.
Absorptive capacity in New Zealand firms: Measurement and importance. Harris, R., & Le, T. (2019). Science and Public Policy, 46(2), 290–309.
Why firm size matters: Investigating the drivers of innovation and economic performance in New Zealand using the. Hong, S., Oxley, L., McCann, P., & Le, T. (2016). Applied Economics, 48(55), 5379–5395.
Do age and experience always go together? The example of indigenous employment. Hunter, B., Kalb, G., & Le, T. (2014). Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 17(2).
The impact of R&D subsidy on innovation: Evidence from New Zealand firms. Le, T., & Jaffe, A. B. (2017). Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 26(5), 429–452.
Outcomes for teenage mothers in the first years after birth. Le, T., Kalb, G., & Leung, F. (2015). Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), 18(3), 255–279.
Maré, D.C. (2022) "The labor market in New Zealand, 2000-2021" IZA World of Labour: Country Studies IZA World of Labor 2022:427.
Prickett, K. C., Augustine, J. (2025). Making holiday magic: Mothers’ triple shift. Contexts
David Rea and Dean Hyslop. (2023). Using a difference-in-difference control trial to test an intervention aimed at increasing the take-up of a welfare payment in New Zealand. Observational Studies, volume 9, (issue 4), 49-72.
Xinwei Dong, Dean Hyslop and Daiji Kawaguchi. (2023). Skills, Productivity and Wages: Direct evidence from a Temporary Help Agency. Journal of Labor Economics

Productivity

Fabling, R & Grimes,A. (forthcoming). “Picking up speed: Does ultrafast broadband increase firm productivity?” Information Economics and Policy.

Wellbeing

Benison T, Le T, Grimes A. Wellbeing and the arts: A concise survey with new findings. Applied Research in Quality of Life.
Grimes, Arthur, Stephen Jenkins, Florencia Tranquilli. The relationship between subjective wellbeing and subjective wellbeing inequality: An important role for skewness. Journal of Happiness Studies.
Grimes A, Stahlmann-Brown P, Morrison PS. Are life satisfaction and WHO-5 interchangeable wellbeing metrics? Social Indicators Research.
Grimes A. “Measuring pandemic and lockdown impacts on wellbeing”, Review of Income and Wealth, 68(2), 409-427.
Kickbusch I, Demaio S, Grimes A, Williams C, de Leeuw E, Herriot M. (2022) The wellbeing economy is within reach—let’s grasp it for better health. Health Promotion International, 37, 1–4.
Messenger B, Beliveau A, Clark M, Fyfe C, Green A (2021). How has contraceptive provision at Family Planning clinics in Aotearoa New Zealand changed between 2009,2014 and 2019: a cross-sectional analysis.124: 21-32.
Piosang, Tristan, Arthur Grimes. Trust in institutions and subjective well-being: Evidence from the Philippines. Asian Politics and Policy, forthcoming, http://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12664
Qasim, Mubashir and Arthur Grimes. “Sustainability and wellbeing: The dynamic relationship between subjective wellbeing and sustainability indicators.” Environment and Development Economics, 27(1), 1-19.
"The effects of neighbourhood and workplace income comparisons on subjective wellbeing,” Isabelle Sin and Shakked Noy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 185, pp. 918-45 (2021), View paper (subscribers only); View authors' draft
Smith C, Cross M, Duncan S, Grimes A, et al. Measuring experienced wellbeing: Two methods for smartphone-based Ecological Momentary Assessment. International Journal of Wellbeing, 16(1), 4693, 1-27.
Smith C, Grimes A. Income and life satisfaction: Income measurement matters. Review of Income and Wealth. 71(4).
Tam, Diana, Arthur Grimes. “Migration of dual-earner couples: A subjective wellbeing approach.” Review of Economics of the Household, 21(1), 269-289.
Thom R, Grimes A. “Land loss and the intergenerational transmission of wellbeing: The experience of iwi in Aotearoa New Zealand”, Social Science & Medicine, 296
Voerman-Tam D, Grimes A, Watson N. (2023). The economics of free speech: Subjective wellbeing and empowerment of marginalized citizens. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, volume 212, 260-274.

Urban and transport

Donovan, S., & Maltman, M. (2025). Dispelling myths: Reviewing the evidence on zoning reforms in Auckland. Land Use Policy, 151, 107498 (NB: Based on Motu Working Paper 24-07).
Donovan, Stuart, Thomas de Graaff, Henri L.F. de Groot, Arthur Grimes, Dave Maré. “Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976-2018”, Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Stroombergen, A, Byett, A, Maré, D C & Fabling, R (2021) “Accessibility: its role and impact on labour and housing markets in New Zealand’s main metropolitan areas”, NZ Transport Agency research report 682.

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