The Department of Economics, University of Toronto
@econuoft.bsky.social
The academic home of the best economics programs and researchers in North America.
OK, #EconSky. Sean Elliott has your back for the holidays. Dating's hard. Ghosting is real. Red Pill virgin influencers killed romance. But when Grandma wants to know why you're not married yet? Just cite Sean and #BlameHousingCosts. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/for-as-long-...
December 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
OK, #EconSky. Sean Elliott has your back for the holidays. Dating's hard. Ghosting is real. Red Pill virgin influencers killed romance. But when Grandma wants to know why you're not married yet? Just cite Sean and #BlameHousingCosts. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/for-as-long-...
Reposted by The Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Reminder: The #UofTArtSci Office of the Faculty Registrar will be available by phone or email on December 23 until noon. The office will reopen on January 5.
Have a wonderful holiday season! ❄️
Learn about the Faculty Registrar: bit.ly/3M4aEGN
Have a wonderful holiday season! ❄️
Learn about the Faculty Registrar: bit.ly/3M4aEGN
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reminder: The #UofTArtSci Office of the Faculty Registrar will be available by phone or email on December 23 until noon. The office will reopen on January 5.
Have a wonderful holiday season! ❄️
Learn about the Faculty Registrar: bit.ly/3M4aEGN
Have a wonderful holiday season! ❄️
Learn about the Faculty Registrar: bit.ly/3M4aEGN
Reposted by The Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Thread: This year, I wrote about 80 articles for @econuoft.bsky.social. The only one that did not reach its intended audience was about Dan McGee's paper entitled Exploitation Through Racialization. academic.oup.com/qje/article/... 1/8
Exploitation Through Racialization*
Abstract. I develop a model of the social construction of race. Racial categories emerge from labor conflict when elites privilege intrinsically irrelevant
academic.oup.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thread: This year, I wrote about 80 articles for @econuoft.bsky.social. The only one that did not reach its intended audience was about Dan McGee's paper entitled Exploitation Through Racialization. academic.oup.com/qje/article/... 1/8
Reposted by The Department of Economics, University of Toronto
🆕 Indian farms are small and unproductive. Broken land markets explain why.
Today on VoxDev, Marijn Bolhuis (IMF), Swapnika Rachapalli (UBC) & Diego Restuccia (@econuoft.bsky.social) discuss how easing barriers to renting land could boost agricultural productivity: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...
Today on VoxDev, Marijn Bolhuis (IMF), Swapnika Rachapalli (UBC) & Diego Restuccia (@econuoft.bsky.social) discuss how easing barriers to renting land could boost agricultural productivity: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...
Indian farms are small and unproductive. Broken land markets explain why.
Easing the barriers to renting land could boost agricultural productivity by encouraging the most productive farmers to expand.
voxdev.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🆕 Indian farms are small and unproductive. Broken land markets explain why.
Today on VoxDev, Marijn Bolhuis (IMF), Swapnika Rachapalli (UBC) & Diego Restuccia (@econuoft.bsky.social) discuss how easing barriers to renting land could boost agricultural productivity: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...
Today on VoxDev, Marijn Bolhuis (IMF), Swapnika Rachapalli (UBC) & Diego Restuccia (@econuoft.bsky.social) discuss how easing barriers to renting land could boost agricultural productivity: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...
Congratulations Professor Robert McCann who won the 2026 CRM-Field-PIMS Prize. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/professor-ro... @pims.math.ca @fieldsinstitute.bsky.social
Professor Robert McCann Wins CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize
Professor Robert McCann
The Centre de recherches mathématiques, the Fields Institute, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) have awarded the 2026 CRM-Fields-PIMs Prize to Pro...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Congratulations Professor Robert McCann who won the 2026 CRM-Field-PIMS Prize. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/professor-ro... @pims.math.ca @fieldsinstitute.bsky.social
It takes creativity to generate meaningful art using AI, found @sijielin.bsky.social in her study of Midjourney input and output. #AIart #AIcreativity #EconJobMarket newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/sijie-lin-st...
Sijie Lin Studies Human Creativity in Prompt Creation with Generative AI
What is the value of human work in a world of generative AI? In her paper, Learning to Prompt: Human Adaptation in Production with Generative AI, Economics PhD candidate Sijie Lin investigated the rol...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It takes creativity to generate meaningful art using AI, found @sijielin.bsky.social in her study of Midjourney input and output. #AIart #AIcreativity #EconJobMarket newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/sijie-lin-st...
People aren't waiting to be seated. They're waiting at home for their food via delivery apps. Still, Siyuan Liu found the rise of Uber Eats, Door Dash, etc, increased the demand for restaurant real estate. #Fooddelivery #realestate #EconJobMarket newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/space-and-cy...
Space and Cyberspace: Investigating Food Delivery Apps and Restaurant Real Estate with Siyuan Liu
Fewer people are waiting to be seated to dine at their favourite restaurants. Instead, they wait at home for delivery services like Uber Eats and Door Dash to bring them a variety of cooked fare. That...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
People aren't waiting to be seated. They're waiting at home for their food via delivery apps. Still, Siyuan Liu found the rise of Uber Eats, Door Dash, etc, increased the demand for restaurant real estate. #Fooddelivery #realestate #EconJobMarket newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/space-and-cy...
Vanya Georgieva is earning a PhD in trade economics so you don't have to. Tariffs, subsidies and other tools that can be weaponized in a trade war are the focus of her research. #InternationalTrade #tariffdebate #EconJobMarket newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/navigating-i...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Vanya Georgieva is earning a PhD in trade economics so you don't have to. Tariffs, subsidies and other tools that can be weaponized in a trade war are the focus of her research. #InternationalTrade #tariffdebate #EconJobMarket newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/navigating-i...
Pegah Rahmani dreams of mathematical proofs. Testing them is her day job. The economic theorist created a new model for taking correlation sensitivity into account in decision making. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/teaching-and... #EconomicTheory #DecisionMaking #EconJobMarket
Teaching and Learning About Correlation Sensitivity with Pegah Rahmani
To explain correlation sensitivity, the Rahmani refers to start up culture. Most people know that most start ups fail within a few years of beginning. They also know about the origins of Amazon and Mi...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pegah Rahmani dreams of mathematical proofs. Testing them is her day job. The economic theorist created a new model for taking correlation sensitivity into account in decision making. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/teaching-and... #EconomicTheory #DecisionMaking #EconJobMarket
Student's in Professor Karen Ugarte Bravo's Health Economics class learned about working in the field from professionals Levi Barnett-Zeman, Ana Correa and Young Jung. Read the newsletter to find out what they learned. Bhattarai. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/learning-abo...
Learning About the Health Economics Job Market
How does networking help students find jobs? What’s the difference between a letter of recommendation and a strong letter of recommendation? In early November, undergraduate students in Assistant Prof...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Student's in Professor Karen Ugarte Bravo's Health Economics class learned about working in the field from professionals Levi Barnett-Zeman, Ana Correa and Young Jung. Read the newsletter to find out what they learned. Bhattarai. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/learning-abo...
New research on Indigenous education in Canada: Why do grad rates differ b/ on-reserve and off-reserve students? Noah Spencer digs into the data and finds policy solutions work. Hint: It's funding! newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/closing-the-...
#EconResearch #IndigenousEducation #EconJobMarket
#EconResearch #IndigenousEducation #EconJobMarket
Closing the On-Reserve/Off-Reserve Indigenous Education Gap While Preserving Culture: Noah Spencer
For Indigenous K-12 students in Canada, educational outcomes can be very different depending on whether they live on or off reserves.
“In my dataset, which covers students graduating between 2007 and...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
December 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New research on Indigenous education in Canada: Why do grad rates differ b/ on-reserve and off-reserve students? Noah Spencer digs into the data and finds policy solutions work. Hint: It's funding! newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/closing-the-...
#EconResearch #IndigenousEducation #EconJobMarket
#EconResearch #IndigenousEducation #EconJobMarket
Is a graduate education, especially to the doctoral level, good for the students themselves? @utoronto.ca's Dwayne Benjamin, Boriana Miloucheva, and Natalia Vigezzi investigated. Read more in "The Importance of PhD Transparency in Today's Job Market". www.promarket.org/2025/11/25/t...
The Importance of PhD Transparency in Today’s Job Market - ProMarket
Is pursuing a PhD a worthwhile financial investment? In new research, Dwayne Benjamin, Boriana Miloucheva, and Natalia Vigezzi compare earnings of PhD graduates to other degree holders, highlighting t...
www.promarket.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Is a graduate education, especially to the doctoral level, good for the students themselves? @utoronto.ca's Dwayne Benjamin, Boriana Miloucheva, and Natalia Vigezzi investigated. Read more in "The Importance of PhD Transparency in Today's Job Market". www.promarket.org/2025/11/25/t...
Bisma Khan studied how the introduction of Lahore’s BRT system reshaped residential sorting and the labor supply. “This is an important issue for populations in large cities across the developing world, said Gustavo Bobonis. #PublicTransportation newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/bisma-khan-o...
Bisma Khan on How Busing Can Move Developing Cities Forward
Access to public transit infrastructure changes the patterns of where people live and work. Economists also know those changes are necessarily all improvements, nor do they affect everyone. Bisma Khan...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Bisma Khan studied how the introduction of Lahore’s BRT system reshaped residential sorting and the labor supply. “This is an important issue for populations in large cities across the developing world, said Gustavo Bobonis. #PublicTransportation newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/bisma-khan-o...
“There’s so much uncertainty nowadays, and the world feels unpredictable,” Quinlan Lee explained. “That means the models economists use need to be much more complex.” newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/using-nonlin... #EconJobMarket #EconomicTheory #EconomicShocks
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“There’s so much uncertainty nowadays, and the world feels unpredictable,” Quinlan Lee explained. “That means the models economists use need to be much more complex.” newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/using-nonlin... #EconJobMarket #EconomicTheory #EconomicShocks
Converted schoolhouses are not just landmarks. According to @bisskydziadyk.bsky.social's research, the creation and expansion of one-room schoolhouses was transformative for Canada's labour market & economy. #EconJobMarket #EconTwitter newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/the-little-s...
The Little Schoolhouses that Transformed Canada: Devin Bissky Dziadyk
The one-room schoolhouse is a historical fixture of the Canadian identity. If anything, the legacy of these little rural centres of childhood literacy may not loom largely enough. According to new res...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Converted schoolhouses are not just landmarks. According to @bisskydziadyk.bsky.social's research, the creation and expansion of one-room schoolhouses was transformative for Canada's labour market & economy. #EconJobMarket #EconTwitter newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/the-little-s...
Associate Professor Jiaying Gu is an econometrician. She is also our newest Canada Research Chair! newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/jiaying-gu-a... #StatisticalDecisionMaking #DecisionMaking
Jiaying Gu Appointed Canada Research Chair
Associate Professor Jiaying Gu of the Department of Economics is now a Canada Research Chair (CRC). Gu’s Tier 2 CRC in Statistical Decision Making comes with a total award of $120,000 for each year of...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Associate Professor Jiaying Gu is an econometrician. She is also our newest Canada Research Chair! newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/jiaying-gu-a... #StatisticalDecisionMaking #DecisionMaking
"Why aren't you kids married yet?" If you're an adult with grandparents, you've probably been asked. Just in time for the holidays, Sean Elliott has an evidence-based comeback for you: Housing prices. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/for-as-long-... #EconJobMarket #EconSky #HousingCrisis
For as Long as We Shall Have a Place to Live: Sean Elliott
Marriage rates have declined. Cohabitation rates are up. There’s another social change less spoken about. Fewer people than ever are matching up at all. Sean Elliott, a PhD candidate with the Departme...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"Why aren't you kids married yet?" If you're an adult with grandparents, you've probably been asked. Just in time for the holidays, Sean Elliott has an evidence-based comeback for you: Housing prices. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/for-as-long-... #EconJobMarket #EconSky #HousingCrisis
Professor @jeffreysun.bsky.social and student Tishma Joarder co-authored this piece about closing the adaptation gap in Bangladesh. #ClimateEconomics #ClimateChange earth.org/at-cop30-wea...
COP30 Must Close the Adaptation Gap. Bangladesh Depends on It
At the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, world leaders are debating how to finance climate adaptation in developing countries like Bangladesh.
earth.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Professor @jeffreysun.bsky.social and student Tishma Joarder co-authored this piece about closing the adaptation gap in Bangladesh. #ClimateEconomics #ClimateChange earth.org/at-cop30-wea...
Reposted by The Department of Economics, University of Toronto
#UofT launches $24-million program to create 100 new postdoctoral positions, accelerate independent research ➡️ uoft.me/bZI
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#UofT launches $24-million program to create 100 new postdoctoral positions, accelerate independent research ➡️ uoft.me/bZI
@taylorswiftjets.grndcntrl.net inspired climate economist @taasniah.bsky.social. The PhD candidate may not have written the ultimate break up album, but she test policy solutions to assist society's uncoupling from fossil fuels and carbon inequality. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/from-taylors...
From Taylor’s Jet to Taxation for Climate Rescue: Tasnia Hussain
Criticism of Taylor Swift’s private jet flights inspired Tasnia Hussain. The PhD candidate’s job market paper, Optimal Carbon Policy Under Carbon Inequality, now contributes evidence for tax policies ...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
@taylorswiftjets.grndcntrl.net inspired climate economist @taasniah.bsky.social. The PhD candidate may not have written the ultimate break up album, but she test policy solutions to assist society's uncoupling from fossil fuels and carbon inequality. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/from-taylors...
Welcome to @econuoft.bsky.social Professor Duggan!
New constellation of academic stars headed to #UofT.
Innovation scholar Jacquelyn Pless, economist Mark Duggan & astrophysicist Sara Seager will join the university next year ➡️ uoft.me/bZu
Innovation scholar Jacquelyn Pless, economist Mark Duggan & astrophysicist Sara Seager will join the university next year ➡️ uoft.me/bZu
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Welcome to @econuoft.bsky.social Professor Duggan!
Do you want some good news about social programs? Steven Ryan found out that extended EI benefits help people find better jobs. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/how-to-best-... #EconJobMarket #EconSky
How to Best Help People When They’re Down and Out: Steven Ryan
In November 2014, the price of oil was already in decline. OPEC’s leadership decided not to cut production. As a result, throughout the beginning of 2015, oil prices continued to decline and tens of t...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Do you want some good news about social programs? Steven Ryan found out that extended EI benefits help people find better jobs. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/how-to-best-... #EconJobMarket #EconSky
Reposted by The Department of Economics, University of Toronto
🆕 Can anti-corruption campaigns reduce vote buying? Lessons from Brazil’s municipal audits
Today on VoxDev w/ Gustavo Bobonis (@econuoft.bsky.social), @pgertler.bsky.social (@berkeleyhaas.bsky.social), @marcogn.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) & Simeon Nichter (UCSD): voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Today on VoxDev w/ Gustavo Bobonis (@econuoft.bsky.social), @pgertler.bsky.social (@berkeleyhaas.bsky.social), @marcogn.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) & Simeon Nichter (UCSD): voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Can anti-corruption campaigns reduce vote buying? Lessons from Brazil’s municipal audits
In Brazil, anti-corruption audits substantially reduced vote buying and citizens’ demands for private favours – demonstrating how transparency initiatives can weaken clientelism and strengthen democra...
voxdev.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🆕 Can anti-corruption campaigns reduce vote buying? Lessons from Brazil’s municipal audits
Today on VoxDev w/ Gustavo Bobonis (@econuoft.bsky.social), @pgertler.bsky.social (@berkeleyhaas.bsky.social), @marcogn.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) & Simeon Nichter (UCSD): voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Today on VoxDev w/ Gustavo Bobonis (@econuoft.bsky.social), @pgertler.bsky.social (@berkeleyhaas.bsky.social), @marcogn.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) & Simeon Nichter (UCSD): voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Sobia Jafry studies household and personal finance. A unique feature of Canada's #CapitalGains taxation opened research opportunities she could realize during her PhD studies. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/death-taxes-... #EconJobMarket #CapitalGains
Death, Taxes and Understanding Capital Gains: Sobia Hasan Jafry
People in Canada don’t change how they behave in response to changes in capital gains tax rates. That doesn’t mean they don’t respond at all when they hear word of changes to the regulations governing...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Sobia Jafry studies household and personal finance. A unique feature of Canada's #CapitalGains taxation opened research opportunities she could realize during her PhD studies. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/death-taxes-... #EconJobMarket #CapitalGains
What happens when local elections include party affiliations on the ballot? Dario Toman, a PhD Candidate with the Department of Economics, examined how adding parties to local ballots reshapes who runs for office, who wins & how voters make decisions. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/from-nonpart...
From Nonpartisan to Partisan: Dario Toman Examines How Party Affiliations Reshape Local Democracy
What happens when local elections include party affiliations on the ballot? Dario Toman, a PhD Candidate with the Department of Economics, examined how adding parties to local ballots reshapes who run...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What happens when local elections include party affiliations on the ballot? Dario Toman, a PhD Candidate with the Department of Economics, examined how adding parties to local ballots reshapes who runs for office, who wins & how voters make decisions. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/from-nonpart...