• Accounting for selectivity and duration-dependent heterogeneity when estimating the impact of emigration on incomes and poverty in sending areas 

  Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Stillman, Steven (The University of Chicago Press, 2013)

  The impacts of international emigration and remittances on incomes and poverty in sending areas are increasingly studied with household survey data. But comparing households with and without emigrants is complicated by a ...

  

• Australia's Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme (PSWPS): Development impacts in the first two years 

  Gibson, John; McKenzie, David (University of Waikato, 2011-06)

  Australia launched the Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme in August 2008. This program was designed to alleviate labor shortages for the Australian horticultural industry by providing opportunities for workers from ...

  

• Australia's PSWPS: Development impacts in the first two years 

  Gibson, John; McKenzie, David (Wiley, 2011)

  This research note presents an analysis of the development impacts of Australia's Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme. We estimate the gain per participating household to be approximately A$2600, which is a 39% increase ...

• Can we trust cluster-corrected standard errors? An application of spatial autocorrelation with exact locations known 

  Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun; Olivia, Susan (Waikato Management School, 2010-11)

  Standard error corrections for clustered samples impose untested restrictions on spatial correlations. Our example shows these are too conservative, compared with a spatial error model that exploits information on exact ...

  

• China's energy economy: A survey of the literature 

  Ma, Hengyun; Oxley, Les; Gibson, John (Elsevier, 2010)

  This paper reviews the literature on China's energy economy, focusing, particularly on: i) the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth; ii), China's changing energy intensity; iii) energy demand and ...

• Quality of Life - Impacts from the Family Planning Policy in China 

  Liang, Yun (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  The relationship between population size, the quality of human capital, and the quality of life, interests social scientists. This topic is particularly important in China, where a previous ‘demographic gift’ is becoming ...

  

• The Value of Irrigation Water in New Zealand 

  Kravchenko, Alexey (University of Waikato, 2016)

  The aim of this thesis is to examine issues pertaining to freshwater quantity in New Zealand agriculture. Currently, freshwater is managed under the Resource Management Act (1991) and the allocation system is essentially ...

  

• Counting Errors: How Misunderstanding of China's Local Population and Employment Counts Affects Economic Analysis 

  Li, Chao (University of Waikato, 2015)

  A confusion over local population counts and employment counts in China persists throughout the economic literature. The existing studies within many branches of economics related to China commonly use the count of people ...

  

• Poverty impacts of agricultural trade liberalisation in Sri Lanka 

  Ranathunga, Seetha P.B. (University of Waikato, 2015)

  There remains controversy over whether trade liberalisation in general, and agricultural trade liberalisation in particular, leads to poverty reduction in developing countries. Since the impacts of agricultural trade ...

  

• Distributional Impacts of Interest Free Student Loans 

  Coker, Emma (University of Waikato, 2014)

  Prior to 2006, New Zealand charged one of the highest rates of interest on student loans in the world; however, in line with the Labour government’s agenda to increase access to tertiary education, this was the year a ...

  

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