Mikal Skuterud comments in an article that discusses job switching trends in Canada. He provides some perspective on why this is an excellent time to switch professions, but few people are actually doing so. Read the full Globe and Mail article here.
Lecturer Zara Liaqat was recently featured in Faculti for her research paper covering firm to firm networks and international trade utilizing customs data from Pakistan.
Congratulations to Susan Shu Chang, a UWaterloo Economics Alumna and the Arts 2021 Young Alumni Award recipient! Susan specializes in a wide range of expertise across the tech world, from applied machine learning to game development; she has made an impressive impact on the tech industry.
The end of the Fall term in 2021 also marked the conclusion of the department’s first ever mentorship program for new Economics majors. The ECON-nection mentorship program connects 2A Economics students, who are in the first term of their studies as an Economics major, with upper year Economics students as their guide and friendly colleagues.
Professors Stéphanie Lluis and Mikal Skuterud are featured in Macleans magazine 'chartstravaganza' this week. Learn more about these charted trends and check out the article.
Prof. Mikko Packalen comments in The Atlantic and his work is featured.
Credit: Bettmann / Getty; The Atlantic
Recently featured in Waterloo News was a very interesting article about the Black experience at Waterloo from the 1960s to the 1990s. Some of the early hires of Black professors are highlighted, including Dr. Karl Bennett in Economics, now a Professor Emeritus. These faculty members "had lasting impacts on the community and the world."
Roy Brouwer, Executive Director of the Water Institute and Professor in Economics, collaborates with several UWaterloo contributors on a project to address water scarcity in Brazil. Read the full article here.
Dr. Chris Riddell, along with co-author W. Craig Riddell, were awarded the 2021 Purvis Prize at the most recent Canadian Economics Association meetings in June for their paper “Interpreting Experimental Evidence in the Presence of Postrandomization Events: A Reassessment of the Self-Sufficiency Project”, published in the Journal of Labor Economics in 2020. This prize is awarded to the author(s) of a highly significant, written contribution to Canadian economic policy and is awarded in memory of noted Canadian economist Doug Purvis. More information is available here.
Anindya Sen, a researcher behind the study that shows social restrictions such as business policies and indoor gathering limits may be the key to decreasing COVID-19 cases. The article can be found here.