OK, #EconSky. Sean Elliott has your back for the holidays. Dating's hard. Ghosting is real. Red Pill virgin influencers killed romance. But when Grandma wants to know why you're not married yet? Just cite Sean and #BlameHousingCosts. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/for-as-long-...

Reminder: The #UofTArtSci Office of the Faculty Registrar will be available by phone or email on December 23 until noon. The office will reopen on January 5. Have a wonderful holiday season! ❄️ Learn about the Faculty Registrar: bit.ly/3M4aEGN

Thread: This year, I wrote about 80 articles for @econuoft.bsky.social. The only one that did not reach its intended audience was about Dan McGee's paper entitled Exploitation Through Racialization. academic.oup.com/qje/article/... 1/8

🆕 Indian farms are small and unproductive. Broken land markets explain why. Today on VoxDev, Marijn Bolhuis (IMF), Swapnika Rachapalli (UBC) & Diego Restuccia (@econuoft.bsky.social) discuss how easing barriers to renting land could boost agricultural productivity: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Congratulations Professor Robert McCann who won the 2026 CRM-Field-PIMS Prize. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/professor-ro... @pims.math.ca @fieldsinstitute.bsky.social

It takes creativity to generate meaningful art using AI, found @sijielin.bsky.social in her study of Midjourney input and output. #AIart #AIcreativity #EconJobMarket newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/sijie-lin-st...

People aren't waiting to be seated. They're waiting at home for their food via delivery apps. Still, Siyuan Liu found the rise of Uber Eats, Door Dash, etc, increased the demand for restaurant real estate. #Fooddelivery #realestate #EconJobMarket newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/space-and-cy...

Vanya Georgieva is earning a PhD in trade economics so you don't have to. Tariffs, subsidies and other tools that can be weaponized in a trade war are the focus of her research. #InternationalTrade #tariffdebate #EconJobMarket newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/navigating-i...

Pegah Rahmani dreams of mathematical proofs. Testing them is her day job. The economic theorist created a new model for taking correlation sensitivity into account in decision making. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/teaching-and... #EconomicTheory #DecisionMaking #EconJobMarket

Student's in Professor Karen Ugarte Bravo's Health Economics class learned about working in the field from professionals Levi Barnett-Zeman, Ana Correa and Young Jung. Read the newsletter to find out what they learned. Bhattarai. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/learning-abo...

New research on Indigenous education in Canada: Why do grad rates differ b/ on-reserve and off-reserve students? Noah Spencer digs into the data and finds policy solutions work. Hint: It's funding! newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/closing-the-... #EconResearch #IndigenousEducation #EconJobMarket

Is a graduate education, especially to the doctoral level, good for the students themselves? @utoronto.ca's Dwayne Benjamin, Boriana Miloucheva, and Natalia Vigezzi investigated. Read more in "The Importance of PhD Transparency in Today's Job Market". www.promarket.org/2025/11/25/t...

Bisma Khan studied how the introduction of Lahore’s BRT system reshaped residential sorting and the labor supply. “This is an important issue for populations in large cities across the developing world, said Gustavo Bobonis. #PublicTransportation newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/bisma-khan-o...

“There’s so much uncertainty nowadays, and the world feels unpredictable,” Quinlan Lee explained. “That means the models economists use need to be much more complex.” newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/using-nonlin... #EconJobMarket #EconomicTheory #EconomicShocks

Converted schoolhouses are not just landmarks. According to @bisskydziadyk.bsky.social's research, the creation and expansion of one-room schoolhouses was transformative for Canada's labour market & economy. #EconJobMarket #EconTwitter newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/the-little-s...

Associate Professor Jiaying Gu is an econometrician. She is also our newest Canada Research Chair! newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/jiaying-gu-a... #StatisticalDecisionMaking #DecisionMaking

"Why aren't you kids married yet?" If you're an adult with grandparents, you've probably been asked. Just in time for the holidays, Sean Elliott has an evidence-based comeback for you: Housing prices. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/for-as-long-... #EconJobMarket #EconSky #HousingCrisis

Professor @jeffreysun.bsky.social and student Tishma Joarder co-authored this piece about closing the adaptation gap in Bangladesh. #ClimateEconomics #ClimateChange earth.org/at-cop30-wea...

#UofT launches $24-million program to create 100 new postdoctoral positions, accelerate independent research ➡️ uoft.me/bZI

@taylorswiftjets.grndcntrl.net inspired climate economist @taasniah.bsky.social. The PhD candidate may not have written the ultimate break up album, but she test policy solutions to assist society's uncoupling from fossil fuels and carbon inequality. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/from-taylors...

Welcome to @econuoft.bsky.social Professor Duggan!

Do you want some good news about social programs? Steven Ryan found out that extended EI benefits help people find better jobs. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/how-to-best-... #EconJobMarket #EconSky

🆕 Can anti-corruption campaigns reduce vote buying? Lessons from Brazil’s municipal audits Today on VoxDev w/ Gustavo Bobonis (@econuoft.bsky.social), @pgertler.bsky.social (@berkeleyhaas.bsky.social), @marcogn.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) & Simeon Nichter (UCSD): voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Sobia Jafry studies household and personal finance. A unique feature of Canada's #CapitalGains taxation opened research opportunities she could realize during her PhD studies. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/death-taxes-... #EconJobMarket #CapitalGains

What happens when local elections include party affiliations on the ballot? Dario Toman, a PhD Candidate with the Department of Economics, examined how adding parties to local ballots reshapes who runs for office, who wins & how voters make decisions. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/from-nonpart...

Firm growth is traditionally associated with productivity, but Mahmood Haddara thought there might be another element at play. He looked at customer access & found out it's responsible for 60% of firm growth. #Productivy #CustomerAccess #EconJobMarket newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/the-limits-o...

Michael Pollitt is coming to UofT! Join our guest on November 7, 3-4:30 PM at the Dept of Economics, rm 100. Pollitt will lead the seminar discussion on how appropriately designed markets help address the climate crisis. #BusinessEcon #ClimateEcon newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/power-and-ca...

In her job market paper, Natalia Vigezzi asked a powerful question: Does the local job market refugees encounter when they first arrive affect their long-term success and that of their children? newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/researching-... #EconJobMarket #MigrationEconomics

🆕 When specialisation backfires: Why Britain’s industrial past still shapes its cities today Today on VoxDev w/ @heblich.bsky.social (@econuoft.bsky.social), Dávid Krisztián Nagy (CREI), Alex Trew (@uofgasbs.bsky.social) & Yanos Zylberberg (@bristoluni.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

Throughout history, racial identity has been a tool elites imposed to make it more difficult for workers to organize and resist. Dan McGee of the Department of Economics has developed a model for examining this divide and conquer strategy. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/talking-abou...

What happens when people exposed to propaganda are provided with fact-based news? PhD candidate Dina O'Brien embarked on field research in Kazakhstan to find out. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/overcoming-p...

Reminder: Media training for faculty and PhD students is today from noon to 1:30. Join Josslyn Johnstone and Sara Goddard of @artsci.utoronto.ca press relations for a presentation and Q&A on talking about research for general audiences in the Max Gluskin House Lounge. #EconUofT #EconJobMarket2025

“Abdelrahman’s research is rigorous and policy-relevant,” said Professor Kory Kroft. “As a scholar, he shows real grit and intellectual honesty—he is determined, seeks the truth, and follows the evidence." newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/the-commutin...

Postsecondary faculty and staff have their calls to action to reflect upon the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. While all of us acknowledge and mourn the legacy of residential schools, we also consider how we can move forward in a good way.

Deforestation is a major source of global carbon emissions, but efforts to curb deforestation rates have faced challenges. This VoxDevLit, with Co-Editors Heitor Pellegrina @ndecon.bsky.social & Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues @econuoft.bsky.social, will continue to be updated as new evidence is released.

Congratulations Professor Emeritus of Economics Martin Osborne whose new book Models in Political Economy was released last week. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/understandin...

You don't need an economics tutor. You need to go to the Economics Study Centre (ESC). It's in room 110 at Max Gluskin House and it's open from 12 to 6, Monday to Thursday, on a drop in basis. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/the-2025-26-...

In photos: #UofT kicks off fall term with move-in days, a clubs fair & first-day fun #MyUofT 📸 uoft.me/bts-photos

Anticipation & big dreams: Meet 5 new #UofT students #MyUofT 💙 uoft.me/bN3

#UofT President Melanie Woodin welcomes new and returning students, faculty, staff & librarians across the university's three campuses to the new school year. #MyUofT 💙 uoft.me/ft25

@utoronto.ca @uoftcities.bsky.social @uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoftlinguistics.bsky.social @dunlapinstitute.bsky.social @cirhr-uoft.bsky.social @econuoft.bsky.social @uoftcompsci.bsky.social

Econ PhDs who will be on the #EconJobMarket: Next Tues Aug 19 at 1pm ET is a NABE (‪@nabe-econ.bsky.social)‬ Career Week panel on "Industry, Government, or Academia? Choosing Your Path in Applied Economics" Register here 👉 www.nabe.com/NABE/Events/...

Congratulations to Taryn Eames, Mahmood Haddara, Sobia Jafry and Adrian Schroeder who were all awarded SSHRC funding in 2025. The PhD candidates' research spans micro to macro, and the economics of discrimination to household finance. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/four-economi...

The Department of Economics, @utoronto.ca is pleased to announce that 12 of its PhD students have been awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships. Find out more about these scholars and their research interests here: newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/twelve-econo...

The 9th #InsTED Workshop will be held at @ualberta.bsky.social on Sept 20-21, co-hosted by Business Econ group of the Alberta School of Business and @uaeuofa.bsky.social. Keynotes: @nathannunn.bsky.social (@ubcvse.bsky.social‬) Daniel Trefler (@econuoft.bsky.social‬) #EconSky #Trade #Development

Congratulations to Lawrence Hsu. The second-year economics PhD student at @utoronto.ca won the BTBA best poster award at their annual symposium earlier this month. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/economics-ph...

Environmental Economics is not just a specialty students demand, it's a field with important tools to contribute to solving the climate crisis. @utoronto.ca is becoming a major centre in the discipline. #econsky #environmentaleconomics #Climate newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/environmenta...

@nber.org SI 2025: Innovation. Does @rotmanschool.bsky.social @econuoft.bsky.social have the strongest delegation this year?

After 2 years, he has decided to make it official. The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Itai Arieli is no longer a visiting professor. He was appointed Associate Professor on 1 July, 2025. Welcome to @utoronto.ca, Professor Arieli! newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/new-faces-20...