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The 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences is taking place August 23rd to 27th 2022.

Robert Embree (Ph.D. '22) is attending from the University of Toronto, and will be presenting his work on economic growth and political polarization.

This prestigious meeting brings together scholars and researchers from over 60 countries and provides a forum for discussion between Nobel laureates and top-ranked emerging scholars in the field of economics.

Find out more: https://www.lindau-nobel.org/7th-lindau-meeting-on-economic-sciences-2022/

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Join faculty, students and alumni of Woodsworth College at this lecture which is co-sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources.

The 2021 lecturer is Prof. Thomas Lemieux, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia.

Thu, 25 NOV 2021 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST
Lecture to be delivered online. Please register here for details

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News

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New study shows higher death toll among Puerto Ricans following Hurricane Maria

Read more about the new study at UofT news

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J-PAL North America highlights the UofT – PR Dept. of Education ATEMA Project
J-PAL North America highlights the ATEMA project, part of the research-practice partnership between the University of Toronto and the Puerto Rico Department of Education Read more

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OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD

Professor Robert (Bob) Gazzale wins the Faculty of Arts & Science's top teaching award. Read more

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Prof. Gustavo Bobonis' partnership project with the PRDE
Prof. Gustavo Bobonis' research-practice partnership project with the Puerto Rico Department of Education hosted a ceremony for more than 250 school principals.. Read more

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UofT team wins silver medal at the Econometric Game

The UofT team at the Econometric Game, represented by PhD candidates Tom Stringham, Nanxi Fu and Atom Vayalinkal, finishes in second place. Read more

Welcome

The Department of Economics at the University of Toronto ranks among the top economics departments internationally. The teaching and research of its 83 faculty members span a wide range of fields and cover theory, applied data analysis, and econometric methodology. Around 15 PhD students, 70 MA students, and 25 MFE students enter our programs each year, and the department has over 1,800 undergraduates, with an additional 800 undergraduates at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus. Collaborative programs with the Rotman School of Management and the Faculty of Law allow students to undertake interdisciplinary studies at the graduate and undergraduate level. Read more

Upcoming Seminars

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Today

Janet Currie (Princeton University), "Child Health as Human Capital". 16:30–18:00, Seeley Hall, Trinity College. Organized by Carolina Arteaga and Ettore Damiano

Friday

Janet Currie (Princeton University), "Doing More with Less: Predicting Primary Care Provider Effectiveness" (joint with Jonathan Zhang). 11:10–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106. Organized by Carolina Arteaga and Ettore Damiano

Econometrics: Nancy Reid (University of Toronto), "TBA". 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106. Organized by Jiaying Gu   Cancelled

Youngki Shin (McMaster), "Statistical Treatment Rules under Social Interaction" (joint with Seungjin Han and Julius Owusu). 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106. Organized by Jiaying Gu

Recent Working Papers

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Michelle Alexopoulos, Xinfen Han, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Xu Zhang, More Than Words: Fed Chairs' Communications During Congressional Testimonies, Working Paper 737, 2022-09-21 Rahul Deb and Ludovic Renou, Which wage distributions are consistent with statistical discrimination?, Working Paper 736, 2022-09-10 Xiaoming Cai, Pieter Gautier, Ronald Wolthoff, Search, Screening and Sorting, Working Paper 735, 2022-09-06

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