Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦
@slaszlo.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at McGill University. Research interests: development, labour, health and gender. Chionophile and coffee enthusiast. https://sites.google.com/site/sonialaszlo/home
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‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...
‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive
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December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...
💥New Working Paper!💥 Women in Peru🇵🇪 spend 3 to 4 hours per day more than men in unpaid domestic and care work, regardless of their labour force participation. With colleagues @mcgill.ca and GRADE, we wanted to see whether beliefs about gender norms could help explain this pattern.
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
💥New Working Paper!💥 Women in Peru🇵🇪 spend 3 to 4 hours per day more than men in unpaid domestic and care work, regardless of their labour force participation. With colleagues @mcgill.ca and GRADE, we wanted to see whether beliefs about gender norms could help explain this pattern.
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Ever wonder about what’s it like to grow up in rural America? So did we! @shelleydclark.bsky.social and I tackle two basic—but essential—questions in our new Journal of Marriage and Family article, just out today. Who do rural kids live with today? How likely are rural kids to grow up in poverty?
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Now out in open access: "Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol”
doi.org/10.1080/2469.... Ben Forest and I explain why people fly “foreign” flags and why such displays can evoke powerful emotional reactions, both positive and negative.
doi.org/10.1080/2469.... Ben Forest and I explain why people fly “foreign” flags and why such displays can evoke powerful emotional reactions, both positive and negative.
Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol
How and why did the European Union (EU) flag, once a banal marker of European integration and institutions in its member states, become such a politically charged symbol outside of the EU? We demon...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Now out in open access: "Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol”
doi.org/10.1080/2469.... Ben Forest and I explain why people fly “foreign” flags and why such displays can evoke powerful emotional reactions, both positive and negative.
doi.org/10.1080/2469.... Ben Forest and I explain why people fly “foreign” flags and why such displays can evoke powerful emotional reactions, both positive and negative.
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Excited to get to welcome Steven Levitsky to McGill to kick off our first annual conference on democratic studies led by the new Diamond-Brown Professor Juan Pablo Luna.
Registration is open for the inaugural conference for the Diamond-Brown Chair in Democratic Studies!
"From Democratic Resilience to Recession: Global and Canadian Perspectives on Authoritarian Backsliding."
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"From Democratic Resilience to Recession: Global and Canadian Perspectives on Authoritarian Backsliding."
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October 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Excited to get to welcome Steven Levitsky to McGill to kick off our first annual conference on democratic studies led by the new Diamond-Brown Professor Juan Pablo Luna.
I can't say it better than my colleagues -- apply to join our Economics Department @mcgill.ca.
We are hiring and looking especially for Econometrics and IO.
We are hiring and looking especially for Econometrics and IO.
Come and join us! Our search focuses on econometrics or IO!
Montreal, imo, best city in North America and 🇨🇦 is a welcoming, awesome country.
Montreal, imo, best city in North America and 🇨🇦 is a welcoming, awesome country.
🍁🍁Hello! We hiring in the junior market! 🍁🍁
Apply to work with us at McGill's Econ department!
Full ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
Apply to work with us at McGill's Econ department!
Full ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
October 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I can't say it better than my colleagues -- apply to join our Economics Department @mcgill.ca.
We are hiring and looking especially for Econometrics and IO.
We are hiring and looking especially for Econometrics and IO.
Big congratulations to this year’s Nobel Prize winners — including our very own @mcgillarts.bsky.social alum, Peter Howitt (BA Honours Economics)! #NobelPrize #McGillProud
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McGill Alumnus Peter Howitt awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics for work on innovation and growth - McGill Reporter
McGill alumnus Peter Howitt is named co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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October 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Big congratulations to this year’s Nobel Prize winners — including our very own @mcgillarts.bsky.social alum, Peter Howitt (BA Honours Economics)! #NobelPrize #McGillProud
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And it’s a wrap! #SMOQK 2025 at Concordia - 5 excellent papers in development economics. What a great community we have in the Sherbrooke Montreal Ottawa Quebec and Kingston area. See you again in a year!
September 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
And it’s a wrap! #SMOQK 2025 at Concordia - 5 excellent papers in development economics. What a great community we have in the Sherbrooke Montreal Ottawa Quebec and Kingston area. See you again in a year!
And another set of amazing papers for the afternoon with @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social (Laval), Zemar Hakim (Queens), and @caitbrownecon.bsky.social (Laval) #SMOQK2025
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
And another set of amazing papers for the afternoon with @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social (Laval), Zemar Hakim (Queens), and @caitbrownecon.bsky.social (Laval) #SMOQK2025
And we’re off! The 3rd annual SMOQK devo day at Concordia, with great presentations by Sylvain Dessy (Laval) Paula Lopez-Pena (Queens) this morning
September 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
And we’re off! The 3rd annual SMOQK devo day at Concordia, with great presentations by Sylvain Dessy (Laval) Paula Lopez-Pena (Queens) this morning
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🆕 Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation
Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos (York University) discusses how Ethiopia's large-scale road expansion accelerated structural transformation: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos (York University) discusses how Ethiopia's large-scale road expansion accelerated structural transformation: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation
Ethiopia’s large-scale road expansion cut travel times to markets – boosting farm productivity, reshaping cropping patterns, and accelerating structural change.
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September 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🆕 Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation
Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos (York University) discusses how Ethiopia's large-scale road expansion accelerated structural transformation: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos (York University) discusses how Ethiopia's large-scale road expansion accelerated structural transformation: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
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OPINION: "Pronatalists argue that there will be too few workers to sustain the economy and too many older people for those workers to support. However, that is not necessarily true—and even if it were, increasing birth rates wouldn’t fix the problem," Root et al. write.
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Opinion | Falling Birth Rates Won’t Cause Population Decline
Root, Guzzo and Clark write about misconceptions associated with pronatalism and how a population decline is not imminent.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
OPINION: "Pronatalists argue that there will be too few workers to sustain the economy and too many older people for those workers to support. However, that is not necessarily true—and even if it were, increasing birth rates wouldn’t fix the problem," Root et al. write.
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Proud to share our paper on gender norms in 🇵🇾, out in the July 2025 issue of Economic Development and Cultural Change. With colleagues @McGill.ca and Fundación Capital, we ran a lab-in-the-field experiment to understand how an interactive digital application can influence beliefs about gender norms.
September 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Proud to share our paper on gender norms in 🇵🇾, out in the July 2025 issue of Economic Development and Cultural Change. With colleagues @McGill.ca and Fundación Capital, we ran a lab-in-the-field experiment to understand how an interactive digital application can influence beliefs about gender norms.
Proud to share our paper on gender norms in 🇵🇾, out in the July 2025 issue of Economic Development and Cultural Change. With colleagues @McGill.ca and Fundación Capital, we ran a lab-in-the-field experiment to understand how an interactive digital application can influence beliefs about gender norms.
September 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Proud to share our paper on gender norms in 🇵🇾, out in the July 2025 issue of Economic Development and Cultural Change. With colleagues @McGill.ca and Fundación Capital, we ran a lab-in-the-field experiment to understand how an interactive digital application can influence beliefs about gender norms.
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My coauthors @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com , which offers insights into why most demographers do NOT think there is a current fertility crisis and the panic about population decline is unwarranted.
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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
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July 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My coauthors @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com , which offers insights into why most demographers do NOT think there is a current fertility crisis and the panic about population decline is unwarranted.
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🆕 Can talking about girls’ education improve educational outcomes?
Today on VoxDev, Chris Cotton (Queen's University), Ardyn Nordstrom (Carleton University), Jordan Nanowski (CMHC) & Eric Richert (University of Chicago) outline evidence on girls' education in Zimbabwe: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Chris Cotton (Queen's University), Ardyn Nordstrom (Carleton University), Jordan Nanowski (CMHC) & Eric Richert (University of Chicago) outline evidence on girls' education in Zimbabwe: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Can talking about girls’ education improve educational outcomes?
Evidence from Zimbabwe suggests that dialogue-based engagement campaigns can be effective in increasing enrolment and learning, which is consistent with improving perceptions around the value of girls...
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June 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🆕 Can talking about girls’ education improve educational outcomes?
Today on VoxDev, Chris Cotton (Queen's University), Ardyn Nordstrom (Carleton University), Jordan Nanowski (CMHC) & Eric Richert (University of Chicago) outline evidence on girls' education in Zimbabwe: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Chris Cotton (Queen's University), Ardyn Nordstrom (Carleton University), Jordan Nanowski (CMHC) & Eric Richert (University of Chicago) outline evidence on girls' education in Zimbabwe: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Dear Canada,
Happy election day!! 🎉 🗳️
Just one simple thing to do: cast your vote! Vote your heart out! Make yourself heard!
I assume you understand your assignment, yes?
Merci, thank you.
Happy election day!! 🎉 🗳️
Just one simple thing to do: cast your vote! Vote your heart out! Make yourself heard!
I assume you understand your assignment, yes?
Merci, thank you.
April 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Dear Canada,
Happy election day!! 🎉 🗳️
Just one simple thing to do: cast your vote! Vote your heart out! Make yourself heard!
I assume you understand your assignment, yes?
Merci, thank you.
Happy election day!! 🎉 🗳️
Just one simple thing to do: cast your vote! Vote your heart out! Make yourself heard!
I assume you understand your assignment, yes?
Merci, thank you.
April 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Dear Canada,
Happy election day!! 🎉 🗳️
Just one simple thing to do: cast your vote! Vote your heart out! Make yourself heard!
I assume you understand your assignment, yes?
Merci, thank you.
Happy election day!! 🎉 🗳️
Just one simple thing to do: cast your vote! Vote your heart out! Make yourself heard!
I assume you understand your assignment, yes?
Merci, thank you.
Timeline cleanse brought to you by my garden hellebore
April 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Timeline cleanse brought to you by my garden hellebore
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A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/.
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
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April 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/.
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @hgninafon who works on topics related to development + health, particularly in W Africa - and is a newly minted PhD, congratulate him!
April 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @hgninafon who works on topics related to development + health, particularly in W Africa - and is a newly minted PhD, congratulate him!
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For no particular reason, it might be a good time to repost my Starter pack of academic economists who study international trade
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April 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
For no particular reason, it might be a good time to repost my Starter pack of academic economists who study international trade
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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.