Trump gives us another reminder: Canada needs a warlike effort to separate from the US, to boycott their country and their products, and to strengthen relations with democratic countries instead.
Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦
@slaszlo.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at McGill University. Research interests: development, labour, health and gender. Chionophile and coffee enthusiast. https://sites.google.com/site/sonialaszlo/home
Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍
🙌 10 days left to submit your paper to LACEA LAMES 2026!
Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦@slaszlo.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 Call for Papers: LACEA - LAMES 2026 🚨 Submissions now open for the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association annual meetings Nov 12–14, 2026 in Lima, 🇵🇪! 📅 Submission Due: May 31, 2026 🔗 : lacealames2026.org Share widely and see you there! #LACEA2026 #Econsky #EconConf
One month left to submit your paper to LACEA - LAMES 2026!
Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦@slaszlo.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 Call for Papers: LACEA - LAMES 2026 🚨 Submissions now open for the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association annual meetings Nov 12–14, 2026 in Lima, 🇵🇪! 📅 Submission Due: May 31, 2026 🔗 : lacealames2026.org Share widely and see you there! #LACEA2026 #Econsky #EconConf
🚨 Call for Papers: LACEA - LAMES 2026 🚨 Submissions now open for the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association annual meetings Nov 12–14, 2026 in Lima, 🇵🇪! 📅 Submission Due: May 31, 2026 🔗 : lacealames2026.org Share widely and see you there! #LACEA2026 #Econsky #EconConf
LACEA LAMES - 2026 Annual Meeting | Lima - Peru
Join LACEA LAMES 2026 in Lima, Peru, November 12-14. Submit abstracts. Leading economists, keynote speakers, and cutting-edge research.
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Thrilled to be working with an amazing team of researchers from Fundación Capital, IDB, GRADE & McGill on a project to understand how gender norms act as a barrier for women-led businesses in Paraguay & what policy makers can do about it. Read what our awesome co-author Laura Morínigo writes abt it.
Investigar para construir: percepción, agencia y decisiones de negocio entre mujeres emprendedoras - Fundación Capital
Mejorando la vida económica y financiera de millones de personas en todo el mundo.
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McGill is recruiting top-tier researchers working abroad through the federally funded Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program, addressing global and national challenges. The first round is due in early 2026. Learn more and submit your candidacy: https://mcgill.ca/x/5Zh
Come join us at McGill! We are recruiting top-tier researchers working abroad.
McGill University@mcgill.ca · 8mo agoMcGill is recruiting top-tier researchers working abroad through the federally funded Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program, addressing global and national challenges. The first round is due in early 2026. Learn more and submit your candidacy: https://mcgill.ca/x/5Zh
Horrific and evil.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 8mo agoNEW: After freezing billions in U.S. foreign aid and putting countless lives at risk around the world, Trump administration officials in Washington celebrated with a sheet cake. By @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy, photos by @peterdicampo.bsky.social
‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...
‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive
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💥New Working Paper!💥 Women in Peru🇵🇪 spend 3 to 4 hours per day more than men in unpaid domestic and care work, regardless of their labour force participation. With colleagues @mcgill.ca and GRADE, we wanted to see whether beliefs about gender norms could help explain this pattern.
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Matthew M. Brooks@ruraldemography.bsky.social · 9mo agoEver wonder about what’s it like to grow up in rural America? So did we! @shelleydclark.bsky.social and I tackle two basic—but essential—questions in our new Journal of Marriage and Family article, just out today. Who do rural kids live with today? How likely are rural kids to grow up in poverty?
Now out in open access: "Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol” doi.org/10.1080/2469.... Ben Forest and I explain why people fly “foreign” flags and why such displays can evoke powerful emotional reactions, both positive and negative.
Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol
How and why did the European Union (EU) flag, once a banal marker of European integration and institutions in its member states, become such a politically charged symbol outside of the EU? We demon...
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Excited to get to welcome Steven Levitsky to McGill to kick off our first annual conference on democratic studies led by the new Diamond-Brown Professor Juan Pablo Luna.
McGill PoliSci@mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · 10mo agoRegistration is open for the inaugural conference for the Diamond-Brown Chair in Democratic Studies! "From Democratic Resilience to Recession: Global and Canadian Perspectives on Authoritarian Backsliding." alumni.mcgill.ca/aoc/events-t...
I can't say it better than my colleagues -- apply to join our Economics Department @mcgill.ca. We are hiring and looking especially for Econometrics and IO.
@fabolange.bsky.social · 10mo agoCome and join us! Our search focuses on econometrics or IO! Montreal, imo, best city in North America and 🇨🇦 is a welcoming, awesome country.
Big congratulations to this year’s Nobel Prize winners — including our very own @mcgillarts.bsky.social alum, Peter Howitt (BA Honours Economics)! #NobelPrize #McGillProud reporter.mcgill.ca/peter-howitt...
McGill Alumnus Peter Howitt awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics for work on innovation and growth - McGill Reporter
McGill alumnus Peter Howitt is named co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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And it’s a wrap! #SMOQK 2025 at Concordia - 5 excellent papers in development economics. What a great community we have in the Sherbrooke Montreal Ottawa Quebec and Kingston area. See you again in a year!
And another set of amazing papers for the afternoon with @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social (Laval), Zemar Hakim (Queens), and @caitbrownecon.bsky.social (Laval) #SMOQK2025
And we’re off! The 3rd annual SMOQK devo day at Concordia, with great presentations by Sylvain Dessy (Laval) Paula Lopez-Pena (Queens) this morning
🆕 Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos (York University) discusses how Ethiopia's large-scale road expansion accelerated structural transformation: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation
Ethiopia’s large-scale road expansion cut travel times to markets – boosting farm productivity, reshaping cropping patterns, and accelerating structural change.
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OPINION: "Pronatalists argue that there will be too few workers to sustain the economy and too many older people for those workers to support. However, that is not necessarily true—and even if it were, increasing birth rates wouldn’t fix the problem," Root et al. write. buff.ly/EYgNpNm
Opinion | Falling Birth Rates Won’t Cause Population Decline
Root, Guzzo and Clark write about misconceptions associated with pronatalism and how a population decline is not imminent.
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Proud to share our paper on gender norms in 🇵🇾, out in the July 2025 issue of Economic Development and Cultural Change. With colleagues @McGill.ca and Fundación Capital, we ran a lab-in-the-field experiment to understand how an interactive digital application can influence beliefs about gender norms.
Proud to share our paper on gender norms in 🇵🇾, out in the July 2025 issue of Economic Development and Cultural Change. With colleagues @McGill.ca and Fundación Capital, we ran a lab-in-the-field experiment to understand how an interactive digital application can influence beliefs about gender norms.
My coauthors @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com , which offers insights into why most demographers do NOT think there is a current fertility crisis and the panic about population decline is unwarranted. 1/ theconversation.com/fears-that-f...
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
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🆕 Can talking about girls’ education improve educational outcomes? Today on VoxDev, Chris Cotton (Queen's University), Ardyn Nordstrom (Carleton University), Jordan Nanowski (CMHC) & Eric Richert (University of Chicago) outline evidence on girls' education in Zimbabwe: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Can talking about girls’ education improve educational outcomes?
Evidence from Zimbabwe suggests that dialogue-based engagement campaigns can be effective in increasing enrolment and learning, which is consistent with improving perceptions around the value of girls...
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Dear Canada, Happy election day!! 🎉 🗳️ Just one simple thing to do: cast your vote! Vote your heart out! Make yourself heard! I assume you understand your assignment, yes? Merci, thank you.
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