The impact of recent changes in family assistance on partnering and women's employment in New ZealandFootnote∗

Acknowledgement and Disclaimer: Access to the data used in this study was provided by Statistics New Zealand under conditions designed to give effect to the security and confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act 1975. Results presented in this study are the work of the authors, not Statistics New Zealand. Fitzgerald gratefully acknowledges support received as a New Zealand Treasury Visiting Research Fellow. We would also like to thank, without implication, Dean Hyslop for help with the data, Dave Mare, Susan St. John and anonymous referees for helpful comments. The analysis in the paper reflects the authors’ views and not those of Treasury or Statistics New Zealand.

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• Corresponding author. Tim Maloney, Economics Department, Room 659, Owen G. Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Private Bag 92019, The University of Auckland, Telephone: 64–9‐923–7597, fax: 64–9‐373–7427, email: [email protected].
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• Gail Pacheco, Economics Department, Auckland University of Technology E‐mail: [email protected].
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