Papers & Publications

Published Papers and Book Chapters

  "Moving to opportunity, leaving behind what? Evaluating the initial effects of a migration policy on incomes and poverty in source areas"  New Zealand Economic Papers 41(2): 197-224 (2007) (PDF 108KB)

 Efficient Financial Services for Development in the Pacific   Asia-Pacific Development Journal 14(2): 55-74 (2007) (PDF 146KB)

  "Mental Health and Poverty in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Relationship" Social Science and Medicine 65(3):467-480 (2007) (PDF 245KB)

  How cost elastic are remittances? Evidence from Tongan migrants in New Zealand  Pacific Economic Bulletin 21(1): 112-128 (2006)  (PDF, 144KB)

  How does an ex-ante job requirement on labor mobility work? The Tongan-New Zealand experience  (International Migration, Economic Development and Policy, C. Özden and M. Schiff (eds.), The World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan, Washington DC (2007), pp. 215-233)   (PDF, 78KB)

 Using the Global Positioning System (GPS) in Household Surveys For Better Economics and Better Policy  World Bank Research Observer 22(2): 217-241 (2007)(PDF 241KB)

Posters

  "Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Immigration on Child Health"   Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, March 29-31, 2007 (PDF 73kb)

 "Natural Experiment Evidence on Whether Selection Bias Overstates the Gains from Migration" Presented at the 26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Gold Coast, August 12-18, 2006 (64kb)

Working Papers

 The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members:Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program  (PDF, 210KB)

 How important is selection? Experimental vs non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration (PDF, 188KB)

 Migration and mental health: Evidence from a natural experiment (PDF, 164KB)

The Impact of Immigration on Child Health: Experimental Evidence From a Migration Lottery  (PDF 159KB)

 A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad? (PDF 186KB)

Policy Contributions

 Finance for all? Policies and Pitfalls in Expanding Access (see pages 132-133
for our work)

 Global Economic Prospects 2006: Economic Implications of Remittances and
Migration (see Chapter 6 for our work)

 World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation (see Chapter 8 for our work)

Media

 NZ Herald: Islands losing millions in money transfers (PDF 45kb)

 NZ Herald: Job initiative helping more Pacific people (PDF, 32kb)