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The largest share of emissions linked to rich individuals comes not from their yachts or jets, but from the production of their businesses, says Tasnia Hussain. They should be taxed on their investments. @katharinehayhoe.com @taxjustice.net @climatedesk.org www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/19/o...
Want to cut emissions? Young advocate says tax the rich — and what they own
Many are tempted to focus on taxing luxury consumption, but this University of Toronto PhD student says they should aim bigger: rather than just focus on what the rich are consuming, policymakers shou...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
January 21, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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WP: Sources of Evidence for Evidence-based Policymaking: Journals, Articles and Scholarly Structures in the Economic Report of the President 2010-2025, by Richard V. Burkhauser & Ji Ma
January 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Announcing the creation of the Department of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies (ISPLAS) at #UofTArtSci.

The interdisciplinary unit will offer expanded language and cultural programming.

Learn more: www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/isplas-...
Four different colourful landmarks.
January 20, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Interested in AI safety? See the newsletter to learn more about a new fellowship opportunity. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/studying-ai-...
Studying AI Safety Through Student Collaboration: Economics Undergrad Joseph Kostousov
Joseph Kostousov isn’t worried about AI chat bots. Instead, the second-year Economics Specialist is investigating the weaponization of autonomous artificial intelligence, and other catastrophic risks ...
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January 19, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Happy snow day everyone! Due to the campus closure, we have to postpone tonight’s Backpacks to Briefcases event. Please stay tuned for a new time and date.
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Graduating in 2026? Backpacks to Briefcases is returning to the Department of Economics on Thursday, Jan. 15th to help you evolve from student to professional. See you in the Max Gluskin House Lounge at 5:30 on Thursday? Yes, there will be pizza.
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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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-...
A comic book picture of a grandmother and the text: Why aren't you married yet? Worried about this embarrassing question over the holidays? Don't lie to Grandma about why you're single! Just blame the cost of housing. You can cite Sean Elliott's job market paper: Marriage, Cohabitation, and Separation: A Dynamic Approach to the Second Demographic Transition. https://newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/for-as-long-as-we-shall-have-a-place-to-live-sean-elliott/
December 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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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
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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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
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December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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🆕 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...
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.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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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...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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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-...
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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...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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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...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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“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
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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...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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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...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"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