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📢 Calling all critical thinkers & changemakers! 🌍 Submit your paper for #DSA2026! Explore 10 diverse themes across 100 panels. Join us in Dublin, Ireland @ucddublin or virtually (7-10 July) ⏰ Deadline: 30 Dec 🔗 https://t.co/liVFlk0Sje
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A model of repeated games under non-probabilistic uncertainty: today's action must be chosen without knowing what tomorrow's stage game will be. So infinite-horizon payoffs are indeterminate. Can we still identify what equilibrium outcomes are possible? https://t.co/LwmH4e8OkG
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Have an interest in development economics and a passion for taking action? J-PAL Global, our team based at @MIT in Cambridge, MA, is hiring full-time Policy Associates and one Senior Policy Associate, with postings for Managers to come soon. Join us tomorrow, Dec 12 at noon EST
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: JPAL Recruitment Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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Funding alert! 💰 Calling all #socialscience and #humanities researchers at @UofT interested in exploring the ethical, legal + economic consequences of speeding up science with AI + automation. Join our info session on January 14, 10:30–11:30 AM: https://t.co/ISDCDSTzTK
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🚨Now hiring Policy Associates!🚨 Are you a young professional looking to level up your career? In this role, you'll learn the ins and outs of economic research and policy guidance in a sector like agriculture, AI, or health; communicate science-backed evidence to government
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: JPAL Recruitment Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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It takes creativity to get meaningful art from AI tools, found @Sijie_Lin741 in her study of Midjourney users' input and output. #Aiart️ #midjourney #EconJobMarket
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📢 Our new VoxDevLit on EdTech is out now! Senior Editor @singhabhi @handels_sse & Co-Editors @Lnavarrosola @IIES_Sthlm & @POreopoulos @UofT, summarise everything you need to know about EdTech. Read & download here: https://t.co/Qpol9ss9Zh
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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
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Call for Papers! The 14th Warwick Economics PhD conference will take place on 25-27th May 2026. Applications welcome from every field in economics. Free accommodation and travel funding provided. Keynotes by Debraj Ray and @matt_stalinski Deadline is 31st January. Link in🧵
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In his year-end message, Interim Dean Stephen Wright extends his gratitude and wishes the #UofTArtSci community a restful holiday break. Read his holiday message here: https://t.co/LijxB2oxio
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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. https://t.co/h91Yqf9hwr
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New research on Indigenous education in Canada: Why do graduation rates differ b/ on-reserve and off-reserve students? Noah Spencer digs into the data and finds policy solutions work. Hint: It's funding! https://t.co/dbBLwwolVF
#EconResearch #IndigenousEducation #EconJobMarket
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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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By request of submitting authors, we are extending the deadline for the Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'Ă©conomique in Honour of Professor James G. MacKinnon to December 15, 2025. Details at
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Is a graduate education, especially to the doctoral level, good for the students themselves? @UofT's @DwayneBenjami20, Boriana Miloucheva , and @NataliaVigezzi investigated. Read more in "The Importance of PhD Transparency in Today's Job Market".
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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...
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When specialisation backfires: Why Britain’s industrial past still shapes its cities today Last month on VoxDev w/ @StephanHeblich (@econuoft), Dávid Krisztián Nagy (@CREIResearch), Alex Trew (@UofGAsbs) & Yanos Zylberberg (@BristolUniEcon):
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Industrial clusters can fuel economic booms today, but can also trap cities into tomorrow's decline. Evidence from two centuries of British cities reveals the lasting costs of specialisation.
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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.” https://t.co/DAuhwWwZtA
#EconJobMarket #EconomicTheory #EconomicShocks
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From levels of plastic that are fatal to marine animals to the importance of wealthy nations increasing funds for climate adaptation, scholars from across #UofTArtSci are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media. This week's round-up: https://t.co/STMNGnr5aM
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The on campus observation of Trans Day of Remembrance is at the Multifaith Centre today. The open reflection period this afternoon is from 3 to 5 PM. Here are the details.
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Converted schoolhouses are not just landmarks. According to @bisskydziadyk 's research, the creation and expansion of one-room schoolhouses was transformative for Canada's labour market & economy. #EconJobMarket #EconTwitter
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Associate Professor Jiaying Gu is an econometrician. She is also our newest Canada Research Chair! https://t.co/8HWXmsvMb4
#StatisticalDecisionMaking #DecisionMaking
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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...
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