Research results that will not surprise anyone who has ever taught university students.

Annaliese Paulson@annaliesep.bsky.social · 10h ago

New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/

As a long-time member of the demography community, I'm hoping that some non-economists will be interested in my new book as well.

Catching up on old Planet Money episodes - excited to hear my U Ottawa colleague Abel Brodeur talking about replication games www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...

Don't hate the replicator, hate the game : Planet Money

The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old study today doesn't always yield the same result. Same with ...

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Here's a side of the CAN/USA economic performance story I haven't seen before, from Paul Beaudry and David Green. "[O]ver 20 years of economic data show U.S.’s higher productivity has not produced better earnings for most" Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/034a874...

Policy approaches to prevent homelessness requires a measure of what income leaves one at greatest risk. Colleague Rita Wilkins and I are pleased that our HICO measure is being used in a proposal for a new Housing Benefit. caeh.ca/transforming...

Transforming the Canada Housing Benefit to Prevent Homelessness

The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness is proposing a transformed Canada Housing Benefit that could reduce homelessness by more than 60%.

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The June 2026 Issue of Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques is now available, with free access. utppublishing.com/toc/cpp/52/2

Contents | Canadian Public Policy 52, 2

June / juin 2026

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I'm not sure there's any fighting tech that makes people's lives easier, at least in the short run, regardless of whether it makes lives better. Academic life starting to have an abacus feel.

I am firming up spring and summer conference planning, and if you are too, here are a few where I will be leading or contributing to training on reproducibility (for journals and for your own research) 🧵

Gift link (I hope) to @stillots1.bsky.social's moving First Person story in @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/915a4b6...

I am still physically fit, but metastatic breast cancer took away my ability to plan ahead

Patients are living longer with MBC but don’t tell them they look ‘great’ in spite of the disease

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Thanks to @theglobeandmail.com for giving me a little space to talk about a moment in my life. I hope maybe it'll be useful to (possibly give a laugh to?)others with metastatic cancer? share.google/8dRbC0go2heN...

I am still physically fit, but metastatic breast cancer took away my ability to plan ahead

Patients are living longer with MBC but don’t tell them they look ‘great’ in spite of the disease

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The hidden cost isn’t just money. It’s time. If comparing three apps takes forever, you're doing work before you even order dinner.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/convenience-has-a-price-but-they

CRDCN is looking for a project manager/grant writer crdcn.ca/project-coor... Interesting work, great colleagues @crdcn.bsky.social

Project Coordinator (II) - Project Manager (SSCAN) & Grants Writer (Job ID 76196) - Canadian Research Data Centre Network

Term/ Start Date: 24-month contract  Position Type: Hybrid  Salary: $41.99 – $59.09 (hourly) Duties:   This position combines project management for the SSCAN Data Space project with leadership in res...

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Tax reform is a ravenous consumer of political capital. Finance minister Champagne promises boldness. I would have said stealthy technical changes would work better. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/330b5b5...

I did an interview with CTV News about my new book with @amaramarasingam.bsky.social on far-right extremism in Canada. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

‘It’s Canada. It’s Canadians’: New book examines rise of far-right extremism

A new book examining far-right extremism in Canada argues the movement has evolved dramatically in the past decade, shifting from small, organized groups to a broader network fuelled by social media, ...

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This isn't a story about what wealthy men in tech want. It's a story about what the wealthy men in tech who struggle to find wives want. And it's pretty clear why they're struggling.

Ej Dickson@ejdickson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My latest story for @wired.com is about the uber-wealthy tech guys and CEOs paying matchmakers $50k to set them up with trad wives. "They're not looking for a bossy bitch lady," one told me. "They want a woman who knows how to respect and honor a man." www.wired.com/story/matchm...

Way to go @gillianpetit.bsky.social!

Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦@tammyschirle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CPP/Adp's success depends on the contributions of many reviewers. This year we are pleased to announce the 2025 Critical Reviewer of the Year is Gillian Petit @gillianpetit.bsky.social ( @ucalgary.bsky.social ). www.cpp-adp.ca/english-menu...

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge is hiring a Research Assistant in Public Policy! Work with @michaelkenny.bsky.social on projects for the new Bennett School of Public Policy including UK devolution, regional place-based policy, & inter-governmental relations. Apply by 18/06/26: bit.ly/4uL5bWQ

Front runners so far look to be Leviathan Wakes and Too Like the Lightning. If you're thinking of joining us, there is still time to get your vote in!

Chris Neill 🐧@chrisneill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Economics + SciFi Fantasy tragics - we are just starting to organize the Summer round of the EconSciFi Book Club. This Summer we have 8 options to vote for

A hundred years from now, your great grandchildren may use your Census records to find out how you lived. Here's an old blog post about using the Census to find out more about my own family's history: worthwhileblog.ca/2010/08/05/g...

Geneology and the census

Historical censuses from around the world are available on-line at sites like or  A few hours spent looking up old family records made history come alive for me.

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The short and long form have purpose, please take the time to do it. Can read this from @lindsaytedds.bsky.social too deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/l...

Long Form, Long Memory

The 2026 Census Has Landed. Fill It Out — and If You Got the Long Form, Wear It Like a Badge. The envelope showed up this week. Beige. Bilingual. Statistics Canada return address, PO Box 99995. Ins…

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Privatization doesn't work without the private profits. The most extreme example is the privatization of Chicago's parking meters, but the result is universal. Privatizing airports means higher parking prices, airport fees on tickets, rents for vendors, and therefore high drink & food prices.

Chicago Parking Meters Are Making UAE The Big Bucks | the deep dive

A new audit has found that the city of Chicago is losing millions of dollars each year on its 75-year lease of its parking meters — all while the meters owners, Chicago Parking Meters LLC (CPM), are r...

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Tim Bousquet@timbousquet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're going to have the Scotiabank International Airport, aren't we?

Easy for Canadians to be smug about this, but our Catholic hospitals (St Joseph's, St Michael's, other Unity Health) aren't great in this department either.

The state of Ontario's ONroute network gives you a pretty good idea of how "cutting costs" is likely to work out... www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Are you a Canadian undergrad or grad student writing on economics/political economy/economic policy? Do you take a critical approach to unconstrained markets? Would you like to win $1000? If so, consider entering the PEF student essay contest: www.progressive-economics.ca/pef-student-...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Part Deux is up on Dead for Tax Reasons. On Monday: 394 organizations, unspecified dollars. The press release is careful to count organizations rather than dollars. You should be careful about that too. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/the-naked-budget-2%c2%bd-the-smell-of-expiry/

The Naked Budget 2½: The Smell of Expiry

In my last post, I argued that the Carney government is dismantling Canada’s women’s state not through cuts but through the expiry of time-limited funding — and that the trajectory take…

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On the bright side, there are still more faculty under 40 than over 65 at Canadian universities - for now! (requested by @pengzell.bsky.social ). The trend line shoots up when employment laws for those 65+ changed around 2010.

Congratulations to Sara Benetti from @ubcvse.bsky.social, winner of the @echistsoc.bsky.social New Researcher Prize for her paper on the social consequences of technological change! economics.ubc.ca/profile/sara...

Sara Benetti - Vancouver School of Economics

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Not just mammograms.

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Every mammogram should be supported by 3 different AIs for improved detection of cancer, prevention, and risk of heart disease. At no cost to patients. My new @thelancet.com essay reviews the evidence and the lack of implementation thelancet.com/journals/lan...