Alex Plum

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

Social and Health Outcomes around Divorce: Evidence from New Zealand 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...

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

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.

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.

Sign the Petition Reinstate Healthy and Nutritious School Lunches

Petition started by a student. Please sign and share. #nzpol

www.change.org/p/reinstate-...

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...

This NBER working paper shows that improving access to free school meals reduces the pressure on food banks

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.