This research aims to understand how New Zealanders think about fairness in order to help policy advisors provide more informed advice on the equity implications of policy choices. It also considers to what extent New Zealander’s perceptions of fairness are grounded in reality and how perceptions of fairness vary across group markers including gender, age...

This paper serves as a background paper for New Zealand's CEFA framework. It details the influence of other international frameworks and then walks through the components of the framework, explaining how they fit together to paint a more comprehensive picture.

This paper discusses alternative methods to estimate the distribution of wealth in New Zealand, adapting a taxable income capitalisation method that suggests more wealth at the top of the distribution than previously estimated.

This report brings together information on the economic and fiscal implications of climate change and New Zealand’s response to it. The costs of climate change will be large and felt unevenly across different sectors and groups of society. The choices made by governments, businesses and households, domestically and internationally, will all influence how the impacts...

Under the terms of the Public Finance (Wellbeing) Amendment Act, Treasury is required to provide an independent report on the state of wellbeing in New Zealand at least every four years. Te Tai Waiora is the first of these reports.