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Are you a researcher in economic history or Indigenous economics? @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social is helping organize the first Canadian Network for Econ. Hist./Indigenous Econ Study Group joint meeting in beautiful Yellowknife, NWT from Aug 21 to 23, 2026!
The @voxdev.bsky.social article is available freely at: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...
Conflict and trade are two forces that have shaped 2025. A new @voxdev.bsky.social article written by Laurier econ prof Zara Liaqat and her co-author shows a surprising link between the two! A 2016 terrorist attack in Kashmir that India blamed on Pakistan affected Pakistani-Indian trade flows.
On the #EconJobMarket? Laurier econ is hiring! We're a collegial group with a lively research environment. We are looking especially for folks in empirical IO, public/urban, or applied 'metrics but all are encouraged to apply. Job ad (deadline Nov 24): www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
In their latest working paper, Anto Mancino, Ceci Diaz Campo, and Salvador Navarro develop and estimate a dynamic factor model to analyze the distributional consequences of incarceration on mental health among justice-involved youth, uncovering large disparities based on baseline skills
To make sure you don't miss another issue, you can subscribe (for free!) here: bit.ly/lednewsletter
The next issue of the @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social econ dept's newsletter is out to subscribers so check your inboxes! If you missed out you can still grab the issue here, with links to all the articles: lednews.wixsite.com/so/53PVhV884...
Her work is now available in a fresh new @lcerpa.bsky.social working paper! lcerpa.org/files/LCERPA...
In her latest WP, @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social prof @antomancino.bsky.social with co-author Cecilia Diaz-Campo use data to document patterns of opioid use in the US, focusing on wave zero of the epidemic, and establish a link between health insurance plan generosity and opioid abuse.
JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS: “The effects of the 19th-century U.S. railroad expansion on port-level wine trade flows” by Jeff Chan (JWE, Vol 20 (2025), No 2): Free access: wine-economics.org/wp-content/u...
A moment for a bit of pride: @bdhuey.bsky.social (UofT) and I (@wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social @lcerpa.bsky.social ) were awarded the CWEC Sylvia Ostry Award, for having "furthered the status of women in the economics profession." This meant a lot to me, thank you!
www.economics.ca/cwec-awards
To check out what Nik is up to these days, visit his site and get his latest working papers and publications! sites.google.com/site/nikolai...
Congrats to @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social prof and @lcerpa.bsky.social member Nik Cook on winning the Polanyi Prize! This achievement establishes Nik as one of Ontario's very best young economists and highlights the high impact of his work in both environmental economics and research transparency.
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Find me on Thursday afternoon (2:30) to learn some presentation skills, and Saturday (4pm) on a panel to discuss "Tax and Transfer Policy Amid a Changing Political Climate"
Also: CPP Special Lecture is Saturday at 8:30 am
Ten Years of Research on Intergenerational Income Mobility in Canada
You can find out where we'll be using the participant listing here (search for Laurier)! virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73715/...
If you're attending the 2025 @canadianeconoassoc.bsky.social Meeting this weekend in Montreal, keep an eye out for one of the 13 Laurier econ faculty that'll be there!
Also worth noting is that the initiative is open to all students currently based in the US, not just US citizens.
The Lazaridis School at Laurier is re-opening admissions for select grad programs (including our MA in biz econ), for US-based students, in Sept 2025. If you or someone you know might fall into this group, we have a super-supportive research environment so check us out!
You can also check out all of our past articles on our news website! lednews.wixsite.com/laurierecon/...
The first issue of the Laurier econ dept's newsletter has landed in inboxes everywhere! Our inaugural issue features a recap of Economic Outlook 2025 from the LCERPA director's perspective. To make sure you don't miss out, subscribe here! bit.ly/lednewsletter
Get the working paper from the LCERPA website here: lcerpa.org/files/LCERPA...
In our first LCERPA working paper of 2025, Laurier econ prof Umaima Imran shows in a theoretical framework that foreign aid can hinder growth in countries with poor institutions.
Madison Aquino looked at the role of financial literacy for household finances, finding that homeowners who were more financial literate had a lower risk of mortgage delinquency!
Our @bankofcanada.bsky.social competition team (Kyle Arndt, Lana El-Masry, Cheryl Li, Miraide Palmer, Gabor Cseke) showed us some of the forecasts that they produced with their macro modelling methods for the competition, which they presented at the Bank for the finals!
Rhea Sen finds, using 2016 census data from Canada, that the returns to foreign university education are lower than those for Canadian education, in the Canadian labour market.
Our runner-up for the poster prize was Lana El-Masry, who put together a great poster highlighting her work. Lana ran an online experiment and found that international students are less trusted than domestic students.
Our poster prize winner this year is Nithin Kumar, who studied how the effects of US federal incentives on electric vehicle adoption depend on state level characteristics like income.
