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(Discussion Paper, 2013)One of the eight Millennium Development Goals is to ‘promote gender equality and empower women.’ However, only 1% of official foreign aid is currently spent on gender equality and human rights. Using individual-level survey ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)When economists' subjective beliefs about the sensitivity and positive predictive value of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test are internally consistent (i.e., satisfying Bayes' Rule), their beliefs about prostate ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)Using search engine query data as a measure for public awareness of sexual health outcomes, this study extracts a measure of general interest in sexually transmitted disease for the United States (2004 – 2012). This trend ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)There is now a large empirical literature on the effect of the aggregate inflation rate on (i) the dispersion of prices across goods or locations (relative price variability, or RPV) and (ii) the dispersion of inflation ... -
Effects of New Welfare Reform Strategies on Welfare Participation: Microdata Estimates from Canada (Discussion Paper, 2013)This paper introduces newly coded information describing province- and year-specific variation in work requirements, diversion, earning exemptions, and time limits. This new information reveals a large decline in the chance ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)The role of structural breaks in long spans of ex-post real interest rates for ten industrialized countries is studied. First, the persistence of the real interest is assessed with newly proposed low-frequency tests of ... -
An Agent-based Model of Interdisciplinary Science and the Evolution of Scientific Research Networks (Discussion Paper, 2013)This study proposes an agent-based model of the impact of research success on the structure of scientific communities. In the model, heterogeneous scientists scattered about a ‘social landscape’ influence each other through ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)Vampires are a prominent feature of modern culture. Past research identifies the ecological and economic relationship between vampires and living humans under the assumption that ‘representative agents’ are capable of ... -
(Thesis, Master of Business, 2013)In this thesis I describe the results of a web-based choice survey of homeowner preferences for attributes of behaviours and technologies to improve energy-efficiency in the home. The choice survey is novel in that respondents ...
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(Thesis, Master of Commerce, 2013)This thesis will examine electronic (debit and credit) card transactions in New Zealand, utilising the Electronic Card Transactions (ECT) statistics from Statistics New Zealand. The aim of this thesis is to test the ... -
(Thesis, Master of Business, 2013)Firms often statistically discriminate in order to lower the cost of recruiting. This behaviour creates different economic opportunities among equally able individuals. We use the New Zealand component of the 2006 Adult ... -
(Thesis, Master of Business, 2013)This thesis uses two unique microeconomic datasets to analyse the effectiveness of foreign aid on economic activity, where economic activity is measured using night light intensity. First, I create an innovative night ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Using a data set collected from 504 households and 18 public Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities of the Saint Louis region in Senegal, the thesis explores three important topics in the field of health microeconomics applied ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2012)This study uses artificial neural networks (ANNs) to reproduce aggregate per-capita consumption patterns for the New Zealand economy. Results suggest that non-linear ANNs can outperform a linear econometric model at ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2012)This paper exploits the existence of the trans-Tasman travel agreement and the availability of comparable census data in Australia and New Zealand to examine the extent to which individuals respond to different labour ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2012)We analyze vertical relationships between a manufacturer and competing retailers when consumers have reference-dependent preferences. Consumers adopt the manufacturer’s suggested retail price as their reference price and ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2012)We build a principal-agent-client model of corruption, allowing for heterogeneity in the value of public projects relative to the cost of monitoring their execution and for uncertainty of corruptors regarding the value of ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2012)This paper develops a bioeconomic model that captures the underlying incentives driving the serial depletion of pristine seamounts. The determinants under New Zealand’s Quota Management System relate to unit cost savings ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)It has become increasingly clear that pooled samples of time-invariant or time-averaged conflict variables used in cross-country regressions provide a misleading characterization of civil wars in individual countries. ... -
(Thesis, Master of Commerce, 2012)This thesis intends to investigate the asymmetric effects of monetary policy on regional prices within Fiji. The monetary policy shocks are generated by removing any systemic response to future economic conditions from the ...
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