Alex Plum
@alexplum.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at NZ Policy Research Institute @AUT
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Examining what happens to families after separation and divorce by following parents and kids using rich administrative data to find out, from Kabir Dasgupta, Andrew C. Johnston, Linda Kirkpatrick, Maxim N. Massenkoff, and Alexander Plum https://www.nber.org/papers/w33873
June 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Examining what happens to families after separation and divorce by following parents and kids using rich administrative data to find out, from Kabir Dasgupta, Andrew C. Johnston, Linda Kirkpatrick, Maxim N. Massenkoff, and Alexander Plum https://www.nber.org/papers/w33873
What happens with parents and their children when they split? We use NZ admin data and exact matching to look into numerous outcomes (labor market, physical and mental health, crime offending and victimization, child abuse, school absenteeism). Read our WP here:
www.nber.org/papers/w33873
www.nber.org/papers/w33873
Social and Health Outcomes around Divorce: Evidence from New Zealand
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June 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
What happens with parents and their children when they split? We use NZ admin data and exact matching to look into numerous outcomes (labor market, physical and mental health, crime offending and victimization, child abuse, school absenteeism). Read our WP here:
www.nber.org/papers/w33873
www.nber.org/papers/w33873
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This NZ law aims to give people with criminal convictions a ‘clean slate’. It’s not working. Sharing these important insights from AUT Business School's Alexander Plum on an initiative that could (and should) do better. theconversation.com/this-nz-law-...
This NZ law aims to give people with criminal convictions a ‘clean slate’. It’s not working
New Zealand’s clean slate scheme is meant to let people leave their criminal past behind. But people are waiting seven years to leave their past behind, hurting their job prospects.
theconversation.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This NZ law aims to give people with criminal convictions a ‘clean slate’. It’s not working. Sharing these important insights from AUT Business School's Alexander Plum on an initiative that could (and should) do better. theconversation.com/this-nz-law-...
Please read our new conversation piece on New Zealand’s clean slate policy—and while the intention is to reward people who do not reoffend, we hardly find any positive labour market effects. Maybe waiting seven years is too long to be relevant for employers.
New Zealand’s clean slate scheme is meant to let people leave their criminal past behind. But people are waiting seven years to leave their past behind, hurting their job prospects.
This NZ law aims to give people with criminal convictions a ‘clean slate’. It’s not working
theconversation.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Please read our new conversation piece on New Zealand’s clean slate policy—and while the intention is to reward people who do not reoffend, we hardly find any positive labour market effects. Maybe waiting seven years is too long to be relevant for employers.
Reposted by Alex Plum
Sign the Petition
Reinstate Healthy and Nutritious School Lunches
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March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This NBER working paper shows that improving access to free school meals reduces the pressure on food banks
www.nber.org/papers/w33562
www.nber.org/papers/w33562
In-kind Government Assistance and Crowd-out of Charitable Services: Evidence from Free School Meals
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This NBER working paper shows that improving access to free school meals reduces the pressure on food banks
www.nber.org/papers/w33562
www.nber.org/papers/w33562
We looked into the economic outcomes of gender diverse people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Compared to cis individuals we find large employment and earning gaps.
The trans and non-binary community may be increasingly visible in New Zealand, but their economic outcomes are still very different to the wider population.
Trans and non-binary New Zealanders earn less and are more likely to be unemployed – new study
theconversation.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We looked into the economic outcomes of gender diverse people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Compared to cis individuals we find large employment and earning gaps.