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Draaisma Rodriguez Wins CRDCN 2025 Best Research Poster Award

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Daniela Draaisma Rodriguez Photo: A. Macedo

PhD candidate Daniela Draaisma Rodriguez won the CRDCN Best Research Poster Award. The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) is a research and training platform for researchers in the quantitative social and health sciences. A consortium created with Statistics Canada and the country’s universities, the network provides StatsCan data on thirty-three campuses to advance research and to highlight the need for evidence-based public policy.

Draaisma earned the award at the network’s annual conference held at the University of Ottawa on May 13th and 14th. The poster Draaisma presented promoted highlights and results of the graduate student’s second-year paper titled The Effect of Dependants’ Health Shocks on Immigrants’ Health and Labor Outcomes: Evidence from Canada. [Read more…]

Episode 2 of the Econ Job Search Podcast with Caitlin Zhang

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Mingyang (Caitlin) Zhang Photos: A.Macedo

Mingyang (Caitlin) Zhang is learning everything she can to find her first job before convocation. In the newest episode of the Econ Job Search Podcast, the fourth-year economics and mathematics student spoke with Chloe Linda Chayo. While a student at the University of Toronto, Chloe’s paper for ECO475 placed in the Arthur Hosios Scholarship in Economics.  The Department of Economics spoke with Caitlin about what she learned from Chloe.

Department of Economics (DOE): Chloe is a recent alumna from the class of 2023, so her first job search stories are still very fresh. What did you learn from that freshness of experience? [Read more…]

Investigating Innovation, Policy, and Productivity: Nasir Hossein Dad

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Nasir Hossein Dad

Corporate lobbying impacts innovation and overall productivity in the U.S. Nasir Hossein Dad and his co-author have built a quantitative model that shows how firms decide to invest in lobbying and research and development (R&D) to strategically grow. Dad, a PhD candidate with the Department of Economics, and his co-author, Duc Nguyen have found that lobbying might substitute for R&D, reducing firms’ incentive to innovate, or complement it by increasing returns on innovation, making the net effect uncertain. [Read more…]

Of Political Economy and Discipline: In Memory of Professor Emeritus John W. L. Winder

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Professor Emeritus John W.L. Winder

Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political Economy, John W.L. Winder was a pioneer in the field of Canadian econometric forecasting models. He died on October 23, 2024, at the age of 92 after having dedicated his life to his work, the University of Toronto, and St. Thomas Anglican Church, just 90 meters from the Department of Economics. The archives of the October 1962 Staff Bulletin outlined his first appointment as assistant professor of economics. Educated at both the University of Toronto and at the University of Chicago, the Bulletin said, Winder was with the Institute for Economic Research at Queen’s University, had business experience with A. V. Roe Canada Ltd., and the Toronto Daily Star. Immediately prior to joining the University of Toronto he had been on faculty at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph. [Read more…]

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