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View article: Wellbeing and the Arts: A Concise Survey with New Findings
Wellbeing and the Arts: A Concise Survey with New Findings Open
Many people across all cultures participate in the arts as producers and/or consumers. That choice implies that arts participation is viewed by those involved as having a positive impact on their wellbeing. Furthermore, since arts employee…
View article: Income and Life Satisfaction: Income Measurement Matters
Income and Life Satisfaction: Income Measurement Matters Open
The relationship between life satisfaction and income is a key question in the economics of wellbeing. Most literature on the income coefficient in a life satisfaction regression focuses on issues of causal identification or the measuremen…
View article: The Myth of the Shrinking State in New Zealand Revisited
The Myth of the Shrinking State in New Zealand Revisited Open
This project uses a variety of lenses – the state as spender, producer, employer, investor and steward – to assess how the size and shape of the state has changed. We explore the conventional wisdom that New Zealand’s ‘neoliberal’ reforms …
View article: Traffic Accidents: The Contrasting Roles of Life Satisfaction and Anxiety
Traffic Accidents: The Contrasting Roles of Life Satisfaction and Anxiety Open
It is well established that people with low subjective wellbeing have heightened traffic accident risk. However, the roles of particular mental states, including overall evaluative subjective wellbeing and specific forms of mental distress…
View article: Housing Tenure and Subjective Wellbeing: The Importance of Public Housing
Housing Tenure and Subjective Wellbeing: The Importance of Public Housing Open
People’s subjective wellbeing is influenced by the built environment, including housing and neighbourhood characteristics. Consistent with prior literature, we find that wellbeing is associated with the condition of a resident’s house (par…
View article: Public Housing in an Urban Setting: an inclusive wellbeing framework
Public Housing in an Urban Setting: an inclusive wellbeing framework Open
We outline a wellbeing framework to underpin analysis within a major research programme in which a key component is to examine effects of public housing on tenant wellbeing. The wellbeing framework is designed to be inclusive by drawing on…
View article: The economics of free speech: Subjective wellbeing and empowerment of marginalized citizens
The economics of free speech: Subjective wellbeing and empowerment of marginalized citizens Open
We analyse whether people value free speech differently depending on their resources (income or education levels). Our analysis includes both stated preferences towards free speech and the realized relationship of free speech with people's…
View article: He Kāinga Oranga: reflections on 25 years of measuring the improved health, wellbeing and sustainability of healthier housing
He Kāinga Oranga: reflections on 25 years of measuring the improved health, wellbeing and sustainability of healthier housing Open
This paper reflects on the influences and outcomes of He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme over 25 years, and their impact on housing and health policy in Aotearoa and internationally. Working in partnership particularly …
View article: Evaluation of the Warmer Kiwis Homes Programme: Full Report including Cost Benefit Analysis
Evaluation of the Warmer Kiwis Homes Programme: Full Report including Cost Benefit Analysis Open
We evaluate the heat pump component of New Zealand’s Warmer Kiwi Homes (WKH) programme. The programme includes provision of heat pumps in living areas for eligible households (based on neighbourhood or income) that do not have suitable hea…
View article: The Relationship Between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: An Important Role for Skewness
The Relationship Between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: An Important Role for Skewness Open
We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than described by earlier research. Our measures of SWL inequality include indices designed specifically for ordinal data as …
View article: Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters Open
Two earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2010–11 caused 185 casualties, demolished much of the inner-city and caused significant job losses. We examine one form of adjustment to these outcomes: (international) emigration. Using a d…
View article: Trust in institutions and subjective well‐being: Evidence from the Philippines
Trust in institutions and subjective well‐being: Evidence from the Philippines Open
We examine the institutional drivers of subjective well‐being (SWB). Using a repeated cross‐sectional data set from the Philippines spanning three decades, we estimate the relationship of people's trust in public institutions and SWB, meas…
View article: Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018 Open
We consider whether external urban economic advantages (agglomeration economies) vary with time and space using detailed micro-data on 134 locations in New Zealand for the period 1976–2018. We find subtle temporal variation, with estimates…
View article: Measuring Pandemic and Lockdown Impacts on Wellbeing
Measuring Pandemic and Lockdown Impacts on Wellbeing Open
With the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, New Zealand's official statistical agency (Stats NZ) moved quickly to supplement the quarterly Household Labour Force Survey with wellbeing measures from the General Social Survey. The first supplem…
View article: Land loss and the intergenerational transmission of wellbeing: The experience of iwi in Aotearoa New Zealand
Land loss and the intergenerational transmission of wellbeing: The experience of iwi in Aotearoa New Zealand Open
We analyse the impact of land loss, through colonisation, on contemporary cultural wellbeing and health outcomes of Māori, the Indigenous population of Aotearoa New Zealand. In 1840, Māori legally owned all land in the country; by 2017, Mā…
View article: The Children's Anti-inflammatory Reliever (CARE) study: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial of budesonide-formoterol as sole reliever therapy in children with mild asthma
The Children's Anti-inflammatory Reliever (CARE) study: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial of budesonide-formoterol as sole reliever therapy in children with mild asthma Open
Background Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children, many of whom are managed solely with a short-acting β 2 -agonist (SABA). In adults, the evidence that budesonide-formoterol as sole reliever therapy markedly reduces the ris…
View article: Sustainability and wellbeing: the dynamic relationship between subjective wellbeing and sustainability indicators
Sustainability and wellbeing: the dynamic relationship between subjective wellbeing and sustainability indicators Open
We analyse the relationship between individuals' subjective wellbeing (SWB) and measures of their country's sustainability. SWB data are sourced from the World Values Survey; sustainability is measured by ecological footprint (EF) and by c…
View article: The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously Open
We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz (Economic Inquiry, 2018). Using inequality ind…
View article: Hometown whanau or big city millennials? The economic geography of graduate destination choices in New Zealand.
Hometown whanau or big city millennials? The economic geography of graduate destination choices in New Zealand. Open
One of the main challenges facing non-metropolitan regions is the attraction and retention of highly-educated young people. A loss of the brightest can lead to reduced business creation, innovation, growth and community wellbeing in such r…
View article: How to keep up wellbeing during the pandemic
How to keep up wellbeing during the pandemic Open
World experts talk about what social isolation does, and what people can do to improve their wellbeing - by Tony Beaton, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Paul Frijters, Arthur Grimes, and Eugenio Proto