So people are talking about fertility again. I keep some notes/links here 👇 FTR "I think women having control over their fertility is a good thing. I am not in the business of convincing women to have more children for reasons that aren’t in their own best interest" sites.google.com/view/tammysc...

Online Mentoring Series CWEC and CEDC are thrilled to invite you to our next Online Mentoring Series event: "Pursuing a career outside academia with Austin Nichols", Principal Economist at Amazon. With a PhD from the University of Michigan and a career spanning the Urban Institute and Abt Global

I need to create a 'conversation starter' graph about 🇨🇦 public pensions. Think this could work?

Join us for our International Women’s Day Lecture with professor Ulrike Malmendier, on March 4th, 2 pm Eastern time.

Wow. This matters.

So... I'm gonna wait and see what @alexusherhesa.bsky.social figures out, but at least we're recognizing inflation matters. Details matter, but I'm sure the headlines today will overlook that.

Once upon a time, long, long ago, I lived in subsidized social housing. I don't know what my counterfactual would look like today, but it probably changed my life. 👇🇨🇦🤔

Dear email sender #162: I'm working on it, really.

Great to see @trevortombe.bsky.social today at @lcerpa.bsky.social Economic Outlook 2026: The Era of Uncertainty. Mentioned it's worth checking out www.policyuncertainty.com

Student evaluations are up! Let's look for some constructive feedback... "made my life a living hell, I hope you're reading this right now. I really hate this course, every single aspect of it... all you do is yap and yap and yap and draw your little useless graphs that no one understands but you"

Fertility? A difficult conversation and everyone comes with their priors, priorities, and personal stories. Lots to talk about 👇 www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...

Sigh 😔 My kid is in high school 'civics', and I'm waiting patiently to see if she learns *anything* about fed/prov/municipal responsibilities.

It's LFS PUMF day! I even got to start my 2026 folder. 👇🇨🇦 Employment rates of parents, by gender and age of kids. Jan 2015- Jan 2026

1. I answer these calls when I can (maybe someone thinks I have an agenda 🤷🏻‍♀️) 2. With no notice on questions that actually require some minimum work (checking numbers, double checking details), and TV hair (not my PJs, or looking like I just got back from the gym), I have to say no 3. see next in 🧵

Dear Ontario: sprinkling salt on a snowbank is not the same as clearing your sidewalk.

Just feeling annoyed: Our uni research office always makes me over-estimate payroll taxes before approval, so after my RA is paid, there's always a small amount left in the account. I'm just trying to use up these funds with an RA, get the money into a student's hands, and close the account

Another important paper, now in print at AER: "Potential" and the Gender Promotion Gap 🎯Subjective assessments of employee "potential" account for about half the gender promotion gap. 🎯 This is despite fact that women go on to outperform their male colleagues. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Sidenote: In a convo with some tax accountant types today, they don't seem to recognize how their average client might not be representative of the broader population, and that there really is a large group whose taxes are really very simple.

Because details matter 👇

I'm pulling out the Winnipeg winter coat.

Renaming the GST credit as "Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit" is odd (CGEB does not have a ring to it). I'll want details on a "Strategic Response Fund" for business. Otherwise, a good way to target much-needed assistance

Saw "Reform Party" was trending.... ok, not the Canadian one

And @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social is closed Monday www.wlu.ca/news/spotlig...

Another snow day!

I should really go the the RDC and just work on coding all day. We aren't allowed the internet in the RDC.

Pro tip for those frustrated with the cold weather in SW Ontario: ❄️Open your weather app ❄️Change location to Winnipeg for a little while ❄️be grateful that’s not your current location

Got notice there's someone out there with an email address pretending to be me. In case you got something weird, that isn't my usual kind of nerdy weird.

So the local NIMBY folks are celebrating. For the rest of us, has anyone suggested we simply raise the price of water? (Really, your lawn doesn't have to be that green all summer long.) 🤷🏻‍♀️

Dear 1st year microeconomics students: Told you.

End of a busy day dilemma: is it worth calling police to report this guy who nearly hit me while I was walking home? (Running thru red light to turn right on red, didn't even see me in front of him) He ended up sitting in traffic so he had to watch me walk by

Be sure to pencil in some time for the CPP/Adp lecture at the 2026 CEAs. Trevor Tombe @trevortombe.bsky.social will present “A New Era for Canada’s Economy" addressing all (or at least a large part of) our worries - trade, productivity, public finances and more www.economics.ca/highlights

🚨 Submissions for the 2026 CEA Conference are open!🚨 We are currently accepting papers for the upcoming conference in May! See our submission page for more details. 🔗 www.economics.ca/submissions Don't forget to check our current events page: 🔗 www.economics.ca/competitions...

Gotta agree with Lindsay here. The piece equates pension savings to any other consumer choice. That ignores the insurance aspect of pensions, which is central to understanding the issue if you're an actual economist.

I appreciate such trends surprise no one, but I still find it absolutely wild how our lives have changed over the past 50 years. The chart shows the percent of people in their 20s who have at least one child and the youngest is age 5 or younger.

Well we weren’t planning on this happening

On my reading list - established firms face productivity and retention challenges "In person work isn’t the only possible solution: just as startups figured out how to make remote work function, there are probably further technological innovations which could make it work better for large firms."

I've been citing this paper for a while now, great to see it in print! 🇨🇦 The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies Journal of Labor Economics, Sencer Karademir, Jean-William Laliberté, and Stefan Staubli @stefanstaubli.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

THANK YOU!! I like concise, removal of all the extra-multisyllabic-words-because-I-want-to-sound-smarter stuff. As an editor, reviewer, and person learning stuff, I sincerely appreciate cutting words. (Hitting word limits aren't the goal here, but they help)

Seems a good time to think about the importance of Central Bank Independence? Carolyn Wilkins is former Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada

A remarkable statement by a central banker. The implications are enormous. “Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats.”

Please read this. It makes sense. (And just nicely lays out so many arguments I’ve heard/had over the past few decades)👇

Not much excitement about the 🇨🇦 jobs numbers today, but I love getting my annual LFS file compiled. My regular update: Parents' employment rates since 2015. The seasonality for moms is always interesting, and the increase we saw for moms with the youngest kids has persisted

Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) Conference submission deadline is coming up on Jan 15! This is also the deadline to apply for the Best Paper Prize. Students or recent grads from Cdn universities and Canadians abroad are eligible to apply for the prize. Details here: clef.uwaterloo.ca/prize/

Wow. Just wow.

I live along this stretch, it's really never a problem. (I'm a motorist, pedestrian, cyclist and transit user.)

Repeat after me: Specialization and trade is a good thing.

📢 Jan 26 Brown Bag Seminar 🎤 • Bisma Khan, UofT, Public Transit, Residential Sorting and Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence from Lahore Bus Rapid Transit System 🎤• Josephine Gantois, UBC, The Efficacy of Conservation Expenditures: Evidence From Local Ballot Measures 🗓 Jan 26 | 💻 Online | ⏰ 1 PM ET

So I’ve decided to try a half marathon this spring- where to go in South western Ontario? @dkmunro.bsky.social ?

An oldie but goodie: Keith Head's 10 commandments for regression tables blogs.ubc.ca/khead/resear...

just because it made me giggle