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.
“In this paper, I examine how adverse health shocks affect the economic and health outcomes of immigrant families in Canada,” she explained. “Using linked administrative data from 2000 to 2013, I estimate both the direct effects on dependents who experience a shock and the spillover effects on principal applicants. The findings highlight distinct and amplified impacts among immigrants, emphasizing the need for targeted policy support.”
The Graduate Student Research Poster Award carries a prize of $500.
“We take great pride in the fact that our graduate students are confident and successful presenters at events like the CRDCN conference,” said Professor Ettore Damiano, Chair of the Department of Economics. “Daniela Draaisma Rodriguez’s research uses exactly the kind of innovative methodologies needed for working with the extensive, high-quality, and long-term data StatsCan provides scholars with access to. On behalf of the department, I am pleased to offer Daniela our congratulations and to encourage her on this research path.”
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