Sean Elliot has been awarded a spot at the Becker Friedman Institute’s (BFI) Price Theory Summer Camp. He is the only student enrolled at a Canadian university among the 40 PhD students from 27 universities who will make up the 2024 cohort.

A PhD candidate at the Department of Economics, Elliott’s research is rooted in the Economics of the Family and focuses on demographic shifts in how couples now match and, if and how the perceived impact of divorce may influence couples’ considerations in choosing to marry, delay marriage, or forego marriage in favour of cohabitation.

“It’s not entirely clear, if this this delay in the in marriage — people get married at a later age now than they used to — is a genuine delay, or if it is a permanent effect and there are just fewer people getting married than before,” Elliott explained. “I am dealing with the challenges of trying to answer these kinds of questions.” [Read more…]