Working paper
Domestic transport charges: estimation of transport-related elasticities
To better understand the potential effects of transport policies, it is important to understand household spending patterns across different transport-related categories, as well as across different households. This study uses three distinct approaches to estimating transport elasticities for New Zealand.
Working paper
Multidimensional disadvantage and wellbeing
This paper examines the measurement of different domains of disadvantage – income poverty, deprivation, and social exclusion – to develop new disadvantage measures based on the dimensionality of disadvantage. These new dimensional measures are then used to examine the relationship between disadvantage and wellbeing.
Working paper
The impact of the 2018 Families Package Winter Energy Payment policy
This paper analyses the effects of the Winter Energy Payment (WEP), that was introduced as part of the 2018 Families Package.
Working paper
Carbon policy design and distributional impacts: what does the research tell us?
This paper brings together multiple literatures in order to provide policy-makers with a better understanding of current recommendations for designing carbon policies, as well as other considerations that may need to be considered as policies are being developed.
Report
Methodology for modelling distributional impacts of emissions budgets on employment in New Zealand
In this document, the authors present the Distributional Impacts Microsimulation for Employment (DIM-E) to examine the potential distributional employment impacts for different mitigation options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.