Congratulations to the researchers from the Department of Economics on receiving funding support from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Joann Jasiak’s project, “Inequality measures and econometric modelling” received the $24,380 SSHRC Connection Grant. The project includes a conference highlighting state-of-the-art methodological developments and covers a broad range of inequality measures designed for individual and aggregate data.
Andrey Stoyanov’s project, “The Cost of Red Tape: The Effect of National Regulation on Labor Markets” was awarded $56,567 from the SSHRC Insight Development Grant.
Four additional projects received SSHRC Insight Grants.
Chaoran Chen’s project, “Macroeconomic Analysis of Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Transformation,” which received $82,202 from the SSHRC Insight Grants.
Laura Salisbury’s project, “An Investigation into the Growth of Nonmarital Fertility in North America” received $91,190 from the SSHRC Insight Grants.
Yishu Zeng’s project, “The Design of Information Disclosure Policy in Strategic Interaction” received $57,238 from the SSHRC Insight Grants.
Tasso Adamopoulos’s project, “Inequality and Productivity in Developing Countries” was granted $125,669 from the SSHRC Insight Grants.
And finally, Joann Jasiak’s project, “Advances in Inference Methods for Stationary Martingales and Non-Gaussian Processes,” received $11,966 per year for a five-year term from the NSERC Discovery Grant.