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The effect of income on New Zealand children's behaviour: The influence of maternal stress and children's screen use
Authors: Arthur Grimes | Kate Prickett (nee Chambers) | Jaimie Monk
Working Paper
Income’s role explored,
Kiwi kid’s behaviour studied
Stress, screens may hold keys
This paper explores how a family’s income affects the behavioural development of children.
Optimal mapping of differing life satisfaction scales
Authors: Arthur Grimes | Amelia Blamey
Working Paper
Of interest to well-being researchers - this paper presents a distributional matching approach to harmonise life satisfaction scores collected on different scales.
We apply the method…
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2025-02-28
Congratulations to the winners at the 34th Australia New Zealand Econometric Study Group MeetingIn February, Motu Research hosted the 34th Australia New Zealand Econometric Study Group meeting (ANZESG) in Wellington.
