Statistics Canada released the numbers from the Labour Force Survey and there were some surprising results. Mikal Skuterud, along with colleagues from Laurier and UBC examined the data. Find the full article with results and graphs at the CD Howe Institute.
Congratulations to Annie (Yazhuo) Pan for successfully defending her thesis titled, "Essays in Wealth Effect, Family Structure, and Female Labour Supply". Her supervisors were Ana Ferrer and Stéphanie Lluis. We wish Annie all the best on her next steps!
Congratulations to Andrés Arcila-Vasquez who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled, ‘Three Essays in Policy Evaluation’. His supervisor was Ana Ferrer.
Yichun Huang, a PhD student in Economics, competed in the Arts 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition earlier this term. Yichun had three minutes to explain her thesis with one static slide.
Congratulations to our 2019 graduates!
The Arts Young Alumni Award recognizes alumni who have made outstanding contributions in their professional field, in the community, and in public service within 10 years of graduation. This year, the recipient of this award is Mandy Tao, a graduate of the UW Economics program (2011).
This Arts Young Alumni Award is another proud achievement Mandy can add to her already impressive resume. Currently serving as the Director of Strategy at Merck, Mandy has also been busy co-founding "Education Togo Switzerland", learning new languages and climbing volcanoes.
Last year Waterloo's Department of Economics launched a new graduate and undergraduate elective course on Water Resources Economics (ECON 484/673).
Professor Mikal Skuterud and PhD student Zong Jia Chen studied the labour market performance of former international students with their Canadian counterparts. Check out the report titled, "Comparing Outcomes: The Relative Job-Market Performance of Former International Students".
In the 2017 fall term, the Department of Economics offered graduate and undergraduate students a new elective course on Water Resource Economics.
Congratulations to our Economics team who participated in the Bank of Canada’s Governor’s Challenge. In November 2017, the team presented their recommendations for Canadian monetary policy to a panel of judges. Coached by Professor Jean Paul Lam, the team did a great job of summarizing current key issues in monetary policy. We are proud of our team! Team members from left to right are George Liu, Quinlan Lee, Galen Wray, Evan Sauve and Viktor Seregelyi.