Imagine being able to tweet about your PhD thesis and link almost every chapter to a top demography journal. Congratulations @EstherSYao!

Last day in the office and I achieved zero inbox by putting ~3,500 emails into a new folder and called it "2022." My apologies to everyone who emailed me this year and never got a response.

The NZ child poverty statistics released today are welcome news given the economic crisis, but for kids who are already taking the brunt of the crisis, we need urgent action. Molly Grant and I take stock of the research on material hardship: nzherald.co.nz/nz/grant-prick…

A piece about the cost-of-living crisis and child poverty in NZ Kate Prickett and I commented on the Aotearoa NZ child poverty stats released today. nzherald.co.nz/nz/grant-prick…

Budget day tomorrow! Here I argue that the progress we've made, both in terms of absolute declines in the child poverty rates and the ethnic inequities in those rates, could be erased if govt ignores the targets they've set for themselves. Wellington School of Business and Government theconversation.com/nz-is-finally-…

Making further dents in child poverty will mean bold support for families left behind. If this week's budget fails to promise impact on child poverty, government targets risk becoming a spreadsheet exercise, writes Kate Prickett (WellingtonUni). #nzpol bit.ly/3W8s8CE

Expanding 20-"free" ECE hours to 2-year olds puts money back in families' pockets. Importantly it plugs a gap in our ECE support landscape: an age when many parents are ready to go back to work but are put off by high costs + where high quality care supports child development

#BREAKING Victoria University of Wellington have just announced over 200 jobs could be at risk following a projected $33M deficit this year

Very much looking forward to discussing our work with the good people at CED soon. Hope you can join us!

It's that day. Life changing, no doubt. Whatever the outcome for individuals, collective scars will be there forever.

Now with another quiet Friday afternoon cancellation of govt funding for longitudinal data--the Growing Up in New Zealand--we effectively have discontinued funding the collection of longitudinal data on tamariki Māori and Pacific children in Aotearoa NZ rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Need a quick primer on the current erosion of New Zealand's data infrastructure? Read this: newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/09/pov… Polly Polly Atatoa Carr & I argue this data divestment, like pausing funding for Growing Up in NZ, will result in policy-making blindspots & create further inequities

Pretty ironic that on the day StatsNZ releases its wellbeing statistics showing that (as a percent) there has been a huge decline in trust in parliament in the past two years, it also lets data users know that they are discontinuing the survey that produces said numbers