Research on pedagogica1 issues associated with the delivery and assessment of economics curriculum has increased noticeably since the early 1990s. This has been driven partly by necessity, as declining numbers in economics majors have caused departments to evaluate their performance, partly by...

Treasury: The New Zealand Treasury 1840-2000, by Malcolm McKinnon (Auckland, Auckland University Press), 2003, 526 pp, ISBN 1-86940-296-0 The Lost Art of Economics by David Colander (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar), x + 203 pp., ISBN 1 84064 694 2.

In this study, we seek to investigate what influences children’s intelligence in early childhood. The Singapore Cohort Study of the Risk Factors of Myopia (SCORM) is used in to assess determinants of childhood IQ and changes in IQ. This longitudinal data set, collected from 1999, includes a...

This paper utilises the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s (ACONF) cohort to investigate how both perinatal factors and changes in a child’s environment impacts on IQ development between the ages of 7 and 11 years. Two methodological frameworks were utilised; (1) linear and logistic regression, the...

In this study, we seek to investigate what influences children's intelligence in early childhood. The Singapore Cohort Study of the Risk Factors of Myopia (SCORM) is used in to assess determinants of childhood IQ and changes in IQ. This longitudinal data set, collected from 1999, includes a...

This paper utilises the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s (ACONF) cohort to investigate how both perinatal factors and changes in a child's environment impacts on IQ development between the ages of 7 and 11 years. Two methodological frameworks were utilised; (1) linear and logistic regression, the...

Purpose – The aims of this paper are to measure the impacts of subsidy, work experience and training programmes on New Zealand male registered unemployed, and to examine the sensitivity of these estimates to the amount of time that participants are followed after an intervention....

This article presents an analysis of real wages, inflation and labour productivity interrelationships using cointegration, Granger causality and, most importantly, structural change tests. Applications of tests to Australian data over the 1965 to 2007 period corroborate the presence of a...