Tagged: Simon Collins

Racial bias in mortgages? - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Jun 26, 2015 •

• discrimination,
• housing,
• New Zealand,
• racism,
• Simon Collins

Simon Collins at the Herald asked me for comment on a paper alleging racial bias in mortgage lending; his story's now up. The paper is available here. It shows, using ordered logit regression, that people who self-identify as being more easily identified as Maori are less likely to own their own home, correcting for income and a few … Read More

Who covers science in the New Zealand media? - Griffin's Gadgets

Peter Griffin • Mar 19, 2010 •

• David Williams,
• Eloise Gibson,
• Kim Hill,
• media,
• Samatha Hayes,
• Science journalism,
• science reporters,
• science round,
• Simon Collins,
• Will Hine

When we set up the Science Media Centre back in June 2008, science reporting in the mainstream media was largely left to a handful of mainly junior reporters who had to juggle the round alongside general reporting duties and who weren’t destined to stick with science for long. The situation, thankfully, has changed somewhat for the better, though the media … Read More