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Assistant Professor Florian Dendorfer won the Best PhD Thesis in Economics Prize from the University of St. Gallen. The university in Switzerland awarded Professor Dendorfer its Doctoral Programme in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (GPEF) Prize for Essays in Industrial Organization during its PhD graduation ceremonies on16 September 2024. [Read more…]
Philip Oreopoulos’ University of Toronto Distinguished Professorship Award has been renewed for a second term. The distinguished professor program recognizes individuals with highly distinguished accomplishments who display exceptional promise, maintain an extraordinary level of activity in their research and scholarly work, and have achieved pre-eminence in their field. His full title, Distinguished Professor in Economics of Education Policy reflects Oreopoulos’ research focus on the use of computer assisted learning and tutoring to enhance the educational experiences of K12 students in local and international settings. His first appointment to the program took effect in July 2020. [Read more…]
Professor Emeritus Gordon Anderson has won the Kendrick Prize. The prize, awarded by the IARIW Council and Editorial Board, recognizes the best paper published in The Review of Income and Wealth the previous calendar year. Professor Anderson’s paper, “Has Canada’s 21st Century Grand Gender Convergence Stalled? Male and Female Income and Human Resource Stock Distributions Viewed Through an Equal Opportunity Lens,” examines appearances of a stall in Canada of what Claudia Goldin called the “Grand Gender Convergence.” [Read more…]
The Bank of Canada and the Canadian Economics Association (CEA) are two of the strongest forces shaping economic policy in Canada. Economics major Ruhani Walia has already met representatives from both organizations. As a finalist in the Bank of Canada’s Undergraduate Student Paper Awards, the Victoria College student presented her research findings at the annual meeting of the CEA.
Ruhani submitted her paper Job Preservation Dynamics: A Comprehensive Study of Payment Protection Program Loan Efficacy, when she saw the call for submissions this spring. [Read more…]
The Canada Child Benefit (CCB) has reduced poverty across the country. According to research conducted by a team based at the Department of Economics, University of Toronto, the CCB reduced poverty in 11% of families headed by singles mother and almost 17% in two-parent families.
The research, conducted by Professor of Economics Michael Baker, former department member Derek Messacar (now with the Department of Economics at Memorial University), and Mark Stabile, an alumnus of the UofT undergraduate program and a former UTM and Rotman faculty member, won the Douglas Purvis Memorial Prize at the annual meeting of the Canadian Economics Association May 30th to June 1st 2024. Each year, the prize goes to the authors of a highly significant, written contribution to Canadian economic policy. The award-winning paper, Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit, appeared in the Journal of Labor Economics (Volume 41, Number 3, October 2023). [Read more…]