ResearchArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Using social media for student engagement: A study of two New Zealand academic libraries 
    Rehman, Rida Noor (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Research Purpose: This research is an exploration of the content created for social media by two New Zealand academic libraries: Auckland University of Technology libraries and Massey University libraries. It analyses the ...
  • Droughts and farms’ financial performance in New Zealand: A micro farm level study 
    Pourzand, Farnaz; Noy, Ilan; Sağlam, Yiğit (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a comprehensive administrative database of all businesses in New Zealand, we investigate the impact of ...
  • Who cares? Future sea-level-rise and house prices 
    Filippova, Olga; Nguyen, Cuong; Noy, Ilan; Rehm, Michael (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Globally, the single-most observable, predictable, and certain impact of climate change is sea level rise. Using a case study from the Kapiti Coast District in New Zealand, we pose a simple question: Do people factor in ...
  • Does an empirical Heckman curve exist? 
    Rea, David; Burton, David (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The Heckman Curve suggests that the rate of return to public investments in human capital declines across the life course. This paper assesses the empirical evidence for the Heckman Curve, using estimates of program benefit ...
  • How effective are 2018 policy settings for the worst-off children? 
    St John, Susan; So, Yun (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This report analyses the policy settings in mid-2018 for their potential to improve the position of the worst-off children in New Zealand. The Labour-led government, elected at the end of 2017, seeks to place child ...
  • From Complexity to Collaboration: Creating the New Zealand we want for ourselves, and enabling future generations to do the same for themselves 
    Eppel, Elizabeth; Provoost, Donna; Karacaoglu, Girol (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The purpose of this paper is to change how we approach public policy and implementation for complex problems such as child poverty. The ultimate objective of public policy is to improve people’s lives and wellbeing, now ...
  • The Case for New Climate Change Adaption. Funding Instruments. 
    Boston, Jonathan; Lawrence, Judy (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Adapting to climate change during the 21st century and beyond poses unprecedented technical, administrative and political challenges that will test the ability to cope at national and local levels. The impacts of climate ...
  • Bridges Both Ways. Transforming the Openness of New Zealand Government. 
    Rashbrooke, Max (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    One of New Zealand’s great strengths is its easy-going, ‘she’ll be right’ attitude; but every strength can become a weakness. That is increasingly the case with the country’s record on public transparency, political ...
  • Review of New Zealand Police’s progress in response to the 2007 Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct 
    Rowe, Mike; Macaulay, Michael (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    In 2007 the report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into Police Conduct made 60 recommendations for change; New Zealand Police (NZ Police) had responsibility for 47 of those. In an effort to ensure that the broad package ...
  • Wealth Disparities in New Zealand: Final Report 
    Rashbrooke, Geoff; Rashbrooke, Max; Molano, Wilma (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Over the period 2002 to 2010, Statistics New Zealand carried out a longitudinal survey known as the Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE). Some eight waves of data were collected. In every second wave (2003/2004, ...
  • Permanent Forest Bonds: A pioneering environmental impact bond for Aotearoa New Zealand 
    Hall, David; Lindsay, Sam; Judd, Sam (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Section 1: The challenge is to establish permanent forest on vulnerable land throughout New Zealand, especially erosion-prone land and waterway margins (see Boxes 1 & 2). Leaving this land unforested hinders the nation’s ...
  • Wealth Disparities in New Zealand: Preliminary Report Providing Updated Data from SOFIE 
    Rashbrooke, Geoff; Rashbrooke, Max; Molano, Wilma (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Over the period 2002 to 2010, Statistics New Zealand carried out a longitudinal survey known as the Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE). Some eight waves of data were collected. Every second wave (2003/2004, ...
  • The "investment approach" – liabilities or assets? 
    James, Colin (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    In 2011 the government adopted from the Accident Compensation Corporation via the Welfare Working Group a programme of actuarially estimating the cost of someone staying long-term on a benefit and using that as the basis ...
  • The TINZ National Integrity System Assessment 2013 and the Open Government Partnership: From findings to recommendations and on to implementation 
    Petrie, Murray (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The 2013 National Integrity System Assessment conducted by Transparency International New Zealand (TINZ) has been attracting increased attention recently with the inclusion by the government of a commitment in NZ’s first ...
  • Connectedness & Canterbury. How did government agencies connect in response to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011? 
    Parish, Catrin (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The Canterbury earthquake sequence of 2010 and 2011 presented the Government with unprecedented challenges, not least of which was to ensure consistency and connectedness across each of its agencies who had a role in the ...
  • Vested Interests 
    James, Colin (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    In 2010-11 three government policy initiatives aroused controversy and accusations of special treatment for "vested interests": a change in workplace relations law to meet the demand of a film company; special treatment ...
  • Governance of a Complex System : Water 
    Eppel, Elizabeth (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Fresh water is a life-enabling resource as well as the source of spiritual, social and economic wellbeing and development. It is continuously renewed by the Earth’s natural recycling systems using heat from the sun to ...
  • Collaborative Governance Case Studies: The Land and Water Forum 
    Eppel, Elizabeth (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Looking at collaborative processes in retrospect is always easier than it was at the time they were first happening. They tend to look more designed, orderly, and less messy than they actually were. In Land and Water Forum ...
  • Flexi-Super: Not Really Such a Great Idea 
    Rashbrooke, Geoff (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Flexi-super is a proposal to allow people to begin receiving New Zealand Superannuation (NZS) between the ages of 60 and 70, instead of at age 65 as at present. The intention is that the rate at which NZS was paid commencing ...
  • Assessing ‘Good Governance’ and Corruption in New Zealand: ‘Scientific’ Measurement, Political Discourse, and Historical Narrative 
    Gregory, Robert (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    New Zealand is ranked highly on the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), which assess performance on six dimensions of governance: voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence, government ...

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