🎉 We are thrilled to kick off our 2025 Econ Job Market Vlog! Our first featured JMC is Sébastien Montpetit (@warwickecon.bsky.social), whose research focuses on public and gender economics. 🎥 Check out his JMP video to learn more about his work! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qogl...

1/ Hi #EconSky, I’m a #EconJobMarket candidate from @ubcvse.bsky.social I study the effect of Rent-Geared-to-Income (RGI) housing in Toronto & Montréal using parent–child-linked administrative tax data. Thread below🧵

Meet the Vancouver School of Economics’ 2025/26 PhD job market candidates! View their profiles here: economics.ubc.ca/people/phd-j... @plbeauregard.bsky.social

How Universal Child Care Could Change New York's Economy? Our paper on Québec's childcare program is featured in this NYT article. (with Sébastien Montpetit and Luisa Carrer) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

Our paper is featured in this month’s NBER Digest! www.nber.org/digest/20250...

We are excited to announce the following new AEs with expertise in IO, labor, and applied micro: Francesco Decarolis (Bocconi University), Thomas Lemieux (VSE), Mathias Reynaert (TSE), Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues (University of Toronto), and Andrew Sweeting (Maryland University)

“On finance, mais on a vraiment aucun pouvoir sur le choix des intervenants”. Un support financier ça se retire lol

Hardest book to read: 3 - Ulysses 2 - Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale 1 - #CEA ‘s program

New working paper.

if this is "nation-building", you can be anything!

Mainstreet's infamous convergence with other pollsters' numbers in the last two weeks of an election. While all pollsters are stable or see a slight drop for liberals, Mainstreet magically goes from +2PCC to +5PLC just before election day 🙃 #polcan

C’était ben bon cet avant match là #polcan

Plus de pétrole et plus de pipelines; because it’s 2025 comme dirait l’autre #polcan

#BudgetHarryPotter #polcan

Je vais pouvoir regarder le match des #habs sans remords

Excellent segment avec @agenestgregoire.bsky.social & @juliaposca.bsky.social. youtu.be/ga5YEsj-zvE?...

Dans @ledevoir.com aujourd’hui…

« Ouain, mais ce sont des top guns »

Curious about the constituent parts of Canada's 65Mt (8.5%) GHG reduction since 2005? Here's how different sectors contributed - or not:

Have the Oilers finally found a winger to play with McDavid???

1/7. Les mensonges de Christian Dufour à @radiocanadainfo.bsky.social : pas en mon nom svp. Un 🧵.

Qui a besoin des géants américains? Musique, réseaux sociaux, stockage de fichiers, appels vidéo… et un assistant d’IA générative, pourquoi pas ? La vie numérique est florissante en dehors des géants américains 👇 www.lapresse.ca/affaires/tec...

Face a l’arrivée de Trump, il y a urgence à repenser les relations économiques internationales. Sereinement, mais radicalement. 🧵

Post-Doc opportunity at VSE/Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality! Starts Sept 1, 2025. Application information at the link below: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/applications...

Il y a eu 21 féminicides depuis le début de l’année au Québec.

UBC is launching a new Economics MA: Economics and Computation Stream: economics.ubc.ca/graduate/mas... Students will take grad courses in both Econ and CS. The stream is tailored for students with a BSc in CS or equivalent coursework. Prior econ coursework is NOT required. Spread the word!

« les Canadiens qui ont travaillé en 2023 et qui ont gagné jusqu’à 150 000$ recevront un chèque de 250$ » Solution simple à un problème simple visiblement 🙃 lp.ca/uYvc2L?shari...

How do major infrastructure projects reshape the lives of those displaced and those residing in affected communities? In my JMP, I answer this question in the context of the construction of the Interstate Highway System.🛣️🚧 A thread of my results 🧵🧵 #EconJMP