Publications

Culture and identity

Research articles

2025

Evans, R. J., Yeom, D., Tao, A., Ip, R. H., & Dean, B. (2026). Patterns and Predictors of Children's Musical Engagement From an Aotearoa NZ Longitudinal Cohort. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56(1), e70017. htps://rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/snz2.70017

Newbury, J., White, B., Meissel, K., Panther, N., Cook, H., Cowie, R., & Reese, E. (2025). Cultural Perceptions of Language Development in a Population Sample of 54-Month-Old Children From Aotearoa New Zealand. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 34(1), 118-138. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00485‍
Yao, E., Atatoa Carr, P., Meissel, K. et al. Ethnic identification from pre-birth to early adolescence: longitudinal patterns and methodological considerations. J Pop Research 42, 40 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-025-09392-z

Yao, E. S., Neumann, D., Taufa, S., Liang, R., Kingi, T. K., Langridge, F., & Paine, S. J. (2024). Ethnic-specific characteristics associated with longitudinal response patterns from prebirth to 12 years: evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand. J Epidemiol Community Health, 79(1), 19-26. https://jech.bmj.com/content/79/1/19.abstract?casa_token=YYZFYO1r4EkAAAAA:Pemlp2eheI8Dpx2Ym8K6xqKR5uG4Ui69oIoBV7Wf0JKiaDdj84aizd50ULrZh9aEnL24NOLWE86DNg

2024

Neumann, D., Yao, E., Feng, L., Taufa, S., Liang, R., Kingi, T. K., ... & Paine, S. J. (2024). Validity of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure for Māori, Pacific, Asian & European adolescents. European Journal of Public Health, 34 (Supplement_3), ckae144-2076. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.2076

2023

Lewycka, S., Dasgupta, K., Plum, A., Clark, T., Hedges, M., & Pacheco, G. (2023). Determinants of ethnic differences in the uptake of child healthcare services in New Zealand: a decomposition analysis. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01812-3
‍Thayer, Z., Becares, L., Marks, E., Ly, K., & Walker, C.(2023). Maternal racism experience and cultural identity in relation to offspring telomere length. Scientific reports, 13(1),10458. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37555-6

2022

Yao, E. S., Meissel, K., Bullen, P., Clark, T. C., Atatoa Carr, P., Tiatia-Seath, J., Peiris-John, R., & Morton, S. M. B. (2022). Demographic discrepancies between administrative-prioritisation and self-prioritisation of multiple ethnic identifications. Social Science Research, 103, 102648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102648‍
Paine S-J, Neumann D, Langridge F, Peters A, Kingi TK. 2022. Kaitiakitanga – principles for protecting and promoting tamariki and rangatahi wellbeing in Growing Up in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 52(3):254–264. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2066142.
Muller, D., Santos-Fernandez, E. McCarthy, J., Carr, H. and Signal, T.L. (2022). Who meets national early childhood sleep guidelines in Aotearoa New Zealand? A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis. SLEEP Advances 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/sleepadvances/zpac002

2021

Yao, E. S., Meissel, K., Bullen, P., Carr, P. A., Clark, T. C., & Morton, S. M. B. (2021). Classifying multiple ethnic identifications: Methodological effects on child, adolescent, and adult ethnic distributions. Demographic Research, 44, 481–512. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27032923

2020

Simmonds H, Reese E,Atatoa Carr P, and Berry S, Kingi TK. (2020). He ara ki ngā rautaki e ora tonu ai te reo Māori: Pathways to Maori Language Revitalisation. Ministry of Social Development Report. ISBN:978-0-9951240-3-5 (electronic). https://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/research/children-and-families-research-fund/he-ara-ki-nga-rautaki-e-ora-tonu-ai-te-reo-maori.pdf
Doran, P., Bradshaw, P., Morton, S., Tautolo, E. S., Williams, J., & Cunningham, C. (2020). Growing up Healthy in Families Across the Globe: Cross-Cultural Harmonisation of Childhood Risk-Factors Using Longitudinal Studies from Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand. Child Indicators Research, 13(6), 1921-1935. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-020-09732-w
Kukutai, T., Prickett, K., Atatoa-Carr, P., & Rata, A. (2020). Family structure and change in early childhood and the wellbeing of tamariki Maori. New Zealand Population Review, 46, 70–99. https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14154

2019

McDaid, F., Underwood, L., Fa'Alili, J., Waldie, K.E., Peterson, E.R., Bird, A., D'Souza, S. and Morton, S.(2019) Antenatal depression symptoms in Pacific women: Evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand. Journal of Primary Health Care, 11(2): 96-108. https://doi.org/10.1071/HC18102
Thayer, Z., Bécares, L., & Carr, P. A. (2019). Maternal experiences of ethnic discrimination and subsequent birth outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand. BMC public health, 19(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7598-z
Hobbs, M. R., Carr, P. A., Fa'alili-Fidow, J., Pillai, A., Morton, S. M., & Grant, C. C. (2019). How differing methods of ascribing ethnicity and socio-economic status affect risk estimates for hospitalisation with infectious disease. Epidemiology & Infection, 147. DOI: 10.1017/S0950268818002935

2018

Berry, S. D., Walker, C. G., Ly, K., Snell, R. G., Carr, P. E. A., Bandara, D., ... & Grant, C. C. (2018). Widespread prevalence of a CREBRF variant amongst Māori and Pacific children is associated with weight and height in early childhood. International Journal of Obesity, 42(7), 1392-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-018-0026-0

2017

Reese E, Keegan P, McNaughton S, Kingi TK, Atatoa Carr P, Schmidt J, Mohal J, Grant C, Morton S. (2017). Te Reo Māori: Indigenous language acquisition in the context of New Zealand English. Journal of Child Language. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1017/s0305000917000241

2016

Bécares L and Atatoa-Carr P. (2016). The association between maternal and partner experienced racial discrimination and prenatal perceived stress, prenatal and postnatal depression: findings from the Growing up in New Zealand cohort study. International Journal for Equity in Health, 15, 1-15. DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0443-4

2015

Reese, E., Ballard, E., Taumoepeau, M., Taumoefolau, M., Morton, S. B., Grant, C., ... & Perese, L. (2015). Estimating language skills in Samoan-and Tongan-speaking children growing up in New Zealand. First Language, 35(4-5), 407-427. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0142723715596099

2012 - 2014

Morton SMB, Ramke J, Kinloch J, Grant CC, Atatoa Carr P, Leeson H, Lee AC, Robinson E. (2014). Growing Up in New Zealand cohort alignment with all New Zealand births. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39(1), 82-87. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12220
Morton, S. M., Atatoa Carr, P. E., Grant, C. C., Robinson, E. M., Bandara, D. K., Bird, A., Ivory, V. C., Kingi, T. K., Liang, R., Marks, E. J., Perese, L. M., Peterson, E. R., Pryor, J. E., Reese, E., Schmidt, J. M., Waldie, K. E., & Wall, C. (2012). Cohort profile: Growing Up in New Zealand. International Journal of Epidemiology, 42(1), 65–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyr206

Reports:

Clark, T., Dasgupta, K., Lewycka, S., Pacheco, G. & Plum, A. (2020) Ethnic differences in the use and experience of child healthcare services in NZ: An empirical examination. Auckland. Available here.
Gerritsen S, D’Souza A, Goodsell-Matthews T, Pillai A, Swinburn B, Wall C. (2020). Food hardship and early childhood nutrition: Findings from Growing Up in New Zealand with a focus on food hardships among tamariki Māori and Pacific children. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
Simmonds H, Reese E,Atatoa Carr P, and Berry S, Kingi TK. (2020). He ara ki ngā rautaki e ora tonu ai te reo Māori: Pathways to Maori Language Revitalisation. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. ISBN:978-0-9951240-3-5. Available here.

Book Chapter:

Atatoa Carr P., Kukutai T., Bandara D., Broman P (2017). Is ethnicity all in the family? How parents in Aotearoa/New Zealand identify their children. In Rocha Z. & Webber M (Eds) Mana Tangatarua: Mixed heritages, ethnic identity and biculturalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Routledge, NY. pp. 53-76.

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