Canadian Economics Association
Association canadienne d’économique
Newsletter Chronique
Volume 41
February/Février 2010
CONTENTS
New Appointments 1
Visiting Appointments 3
Departures 3
Awards & Other News 4
Short-Term Visitors 5
Doctorates 6
Conferences 8
Miscellaneous 10
Obituaries 11
CWEN Report 12
Forthcoming Papers – CJE 22
Forthcoming Papers – CPP 23
Publications 24
CONTENU
Récentes nominations 1
Professeur(e)s Invité(e)s 3
Départs 3
Distinctions et autre nouvelles 4
Visiteurs à terme court 5
Doctorats 6
Conferences 8
Divers 10
Nécrologie 11
Report RFÉ 12
Articles à paraître dans la Revue
canadienne d’économique 22
Articles à paraître dans Analyse
de politiques 23
Publications 24
NEW APPOINTMENTS/RÉCENTES NOMINATIONS
University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business (Strategy and
Business Economics Division)
▪ Thomas Davidoff
Associate Professor
▪ Nathan Schiff
Assistant Professor
▪ Benjamin Sand
July 1, 2009 – Transferred from Haas School of
Business at University of California at Berkeley
July 1, 2009 – Graduated from Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island
October 1, 2009 – Post-Doctoral Researcher
Brock University
▪ Katerina Koka
Lecturer
July 1, 2009 – University of Guelph, Ontario
Carleton University
▪ Mariko J. Klasing
Assistant Professor
July 1, 2009
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▪ Chi Wan
Lecturer, July 1, 2009; and
Assistant Professor, September 1, 2009;
Concordia University
▪ David Fuller
Assistant Professor
July 1, 2009
Dalhousie University
▪ Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Assistant Professor
▪ Daniel Rosemblum
Instructor/Lecturer
July 1, 2009
July 1, 2009
HEC Montreal (Institut d’économie appliquée)
▪ Federico Ravenna
Associate Professor
June 2009 – University of California (Santa Cruz)
Memorial University
▪ Roberto Martínez
Espiñeira, Associate
Professor
July 1, 2009 – St. Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, New Brunswick
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
New NBER Research Associates – Fall 2009
▪ Michael Baker
University of Toronto
▪ Kevin Milligan
University of British Columbia
▪ Philip Oreopoulos
University of Toronto
▪ Mark Stabile
University of Toronto
University of New Brunswick
▪ Hany Fahmy
Sessional Appointment
2009-2010
University of Prince Edward Island
• Olena Ivus
Assistant Professor
July 1, 2009 – Ph.D. graduate from University of
Calgary
Queen’s University
• Hongfei (Amy) Sun
Assistant Professor
July 1, 2009 – Ph.D. graduate from University of
Toronto
Université du Quebec à Montréal (UQAM)
• Marie Connolly Pray
• Pavel Sevcik
1er juin 2009 – Ph.D. graduate from Princeton
University
1er juin 2009 – Ph.D. graduate from Université de
Montréal
University of Regina
• Lihui Zhang
Assistant Professor
September 1, 2009
Ryerson University
• Gervan Fearon
Associate Professor
July 1, 2009
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University of Victoria
• Stephen Hume
Instructor/Lecturer
• Pascal Courty
Assistant Professor
July 1, 2009
July 1, 2009
Wilfrid Laurier University
• Olivia Mesta
September 2, 2009 to August 30, 2010
VISITING APPOINTMENTS / PROFESSEUR(E)S
INVITÉ(E)S
Dalhousie University
• Mutlu Yuksel
July 2009 to June 2012
• Yu Gao
August to December 2009
IZA – Institute for the Study of Labour, Bonn,
Germany
University of International Business and Economics
(UIBE), Beijing, China
Université de Montréal
• Ozan Bakis
2010-2011
Département d’économie, Université Galatasaray,
Istanbul, Turkey
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
• Silvia Noemi Navarro
Prada, 8 septembre 2009
au 31 mai 2010
• Marielle Brunette
18 janvier au 7 mai 2010
Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)
Wilfrid Laurier University
• Tian Lan
December 15, 2009 to
December 15, 2010
Yunnan University of Finance and Economics
DEPARTURES/DÉPARTS
University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business, Strategy and
Business Economics Division
• Veikko Thiele
June 30, 2009 – newly appointed at Queen’s
University Business School
Brock University
• René Kirkegaard
January 1, 2010 – moved to Guelph University
Dalhousie University
• Jason Stevens
• Lilani Kumaranayake
• Sripad Motiram
• Lihui Zhang
May 31, 2009 – Ph.D. candidate has graduated
July 31, 2009 – has left the Department
July 31, 2009 – to Indira Gandhi Institute for
Development Economics Research, Mumbai, India
August 31, 2009 – person has left the Department
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• Mathieu Dufour
July 31, 2009 – person has left the Department
University of Guelph
• Katerina Koka
June 30, 2009 – moved to Brock University
HEC Montreal (Institut d’économie appliquée)
• Jean-Pierre Le Goff
1er novembre 2009 – retraite
University of New Brunswick
• Mehmet Dalkir
• John Rowcroft
2009-2010 – on leave
June 30, 2009 – retirement
University of Prince Edward Island
• Larry Clark
June 30, 2009 – retirement
Queen’s University
• Michael G. Abbott
• Joel Rodrigue
August 31, 2009 – retirement (non-emeritus) – term
Adjunct Professor
October 31, 2009 – Ph.D. candidate has graduated
Saint Francis Xavier University
• Roberto Martínez
Espiñeira
June 30, 2009 – moved to Memorial University,
Newfoundland
University of Toronto
• Stéphane Mechoulan
August 31, 2009 – person has left the Department
University of Western Ontario
• Huju Liu
• Josh Svatek
• Tingting Wu
• Yang Wang
• Yufei Yuan
• Musa Ayar
June 30, 2009 – Ph.D. candidate has graduated
April 30, 2009 – person has left the Department
April 30, 2009 – person has left the Department
April 30, 2009 – person has left the Department
June 30, 2009 – Ph.D. candidate has graduated
September 30, 2009 – person has left the Department
Wilfrid Laurier University, School of Business and Economics
• Eric Ng
• William Marr
• Souraya El Yaman
August 31, 2009 – person has left the Department
Retirement
End of contract – Concordia University
AWARDS AND OTHER NEWS/DISTINCTIONS ET
AUTRE NOUVELLES
Brock University
• Marilyn Cottrell
Don Ursino Award for Excellence in Teaching Large
Classes
Carleton University
• Simon Power
• Ting Zhang
Carleton University Students’ Association Teaching
Excellence Award, 2007-2008; and
Ontario Confederation of University Faculty
Associations (OCUFA) Teaching Award, 2007
University Senate medal, Fall 2008
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HEC Montréal
• Jean Boivin
• Hafedh Bouakez
• Robert Gagné
Appointed by the Bank of Canada as Special Adviser
for 2009-2010
Bank of Canada – second recipient of the Governor’s
Award
Création du Centre sur la productivité et la prospérité
University of Toronto
• Morley Gunderson
Elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
(Academy of Social Sciences)
Université de Montréal
• François Vaillancourt
Membre société royale du Canada
Université du Montréal à Quebec (UQAM)
• Pierre Fortin
• Claude Fluet
• Arianna Degan
• Nicolas Marceau
Professor émérité
Prix de la recherche Carrière 2009 de l’ESG-UQAM
Prix de la recherche Relève 2009 de l’ESG-UQAM
Député provincial
Wilfrid Laurier University
• Pierre Siklos
Was Bundesbank Professor, Freie Universitat, Berlin,
October 2008 to March 2009; and
Was William Evans Fellow, University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand, October 2009
SHORT-TERM VISITORS/VISITEURS À TERME
COURT
HEC Montréal (Institut d’économie appliquée)
• Luc Bauwens
• Leonard J. Mirman
• Gautam Gowrisankaran
• Allan Collard-Wexler
• Michel Mouchard
• Francesco Violante
• Jason Allen
15 février au 26 février 2009 – Université catholique
de Louvain – CORE
19 mai au 26 mai 2009 – University of Virginia
14 juin au 13 août 2009 – Eller College of
Management – University of Arizona
29 juin au 31 juillet 2009 – New York University
31 août au 18 septembre 2009 – Université catholique
de Louvain
21 septembre au 21 octobre 2009 – Facultés
Universitaires Notre-Dama de la Paix (FUNDP)
Octobre à décembre 2009 – Banque du Canada
Université de Montréal
• Étienne De Villemeur
3 janvier au 31 mai 2010 – Université de Toulouse
Queen’s University
• Shouyong Shi
April 19-30, 2010 and June 7-18, 2010
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• Robert Feenstra
• John Geweke
May 3-8, 2010 – University of California at Davis
May 16-22, 2010 – University of Iowa
DOCTORATES/DOCTORATS
Carleton University
• Sadaquat Junayed
• Haizhen Mou
• Bo Zhao
• Deming Luo
• Jun Chen
• Ting Zhang
• Min Xie
• Joshua Gogo
September 2009 – Essays on Financial Aspects of
Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy
May 2009 – Public Health Care: Essays on Wait
Times, Home Care, and the Public-private Mix
April 2009 – Product Market Competition and
Unemployment
January 2009 – Optimal Simple Money Rules in a
Small Open Economy with Information Uncertainty
and Measurement Error
November 2008 – Monopoly, Competition, and
Productive Efficiency
August 2008 – International Outsourcing: An OpenEconomy Model with Intermediate Goods and
Economies of Scale
March 2008 – Two Essays on the Real Exchange Rate
January 2008 – A Theory of Internal Conflict: Causes
of Political Instability in Natural Resource Rich
Developing Economies
HEC Montréal (institut d’économie appliquée)
• Sonia Luzmila Tello
Rozas
• Jeremy LaurentLucchetti
• Walid Marrouch
2 juin 2009 – Essais en économie du capital social et
développement
8 juin 2009 – Essais sur la gestion de biens communs
9 juin 2009 – Essays on International Environmental
Policy
University of Manitoba
• Hongchen Yue
February 2009 – Three Essays on Internal Immigration
University of Montréal
• Sébastien Blais
• Jean Sébastien Fontaine
• Amadou Boly
Septembre 2009 – Une méthode d’inférence
bayésienne pour les modeles espace-état affines
faiblement identifiées appliquée á une stratégie
d’arbitrage statistique de la dynamique de la
structure á terme des taux d’intérêt
Août 2009 – Trois essais sur la liquidité: ses effets sur
les primes de risque, les anticipations et l’asymétrie
des risques financiers
Août 2009 – On the External Validity of Laboratory
Experiments
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• Bruno Feunou Kamkui
• Eric Akcel Bahel
Juillet 2009 – Affine and Generalized Affine Models:
Theory and Financial Applications
Juillet 2009 – Essais en microéconomie théorique et
appliquée
University du Montréal à Quebec (UQAM)
• Skander Ben Abdallah
• Lin Zhang
• Nicholas PetroskyNadeau
• Niloufar Entekhabi
Octobre 2009 – Essais sur l’approache des options
réelles appliquée à la gestion et l’exploitation des
resources naturelles
Septembre 2009 – Essais en finance internationale
Juillet 2009 – Essais sur la macroéconomie des
imperfections sur le marché du capital
Juillet 2009 – Essais en économie monétaire – Essays
in Monetary Economics
Queen’s University
• Adnan Khan
• Natalia Mishagina
• Salem Nechi
• Eric Stephens
• Jun Zhang
November 2009 – Three Essays in Empirical Public
Economics
August 2009 – Labor Market Behavior of Sciences
and Engineering Doctorates: Three Essays
August 2009 – Current Account Deficits, Sudden
Stops, and International Reserves Accumulation
November 2009 – Constraints and Policy in Education
and Public Budget Limits
April 2009 – Three Essays in Auctions and Contests
University of Toronto
• Marcelin Joanis
• Hankook Kim
• Qing Liu
• Ryhs Reginald Mendes
• Hongfei Sun
• Lijun Zhang
September 12, 2008 – Essays on the Political
Economy of the Centralized Provision of Local
Public Goods
September 12, 2008 – Three Essays on Foreign Direct
Investment and Economic Development
July 23, 2008 – Essays on Monetary Coordination,
Exchange Rate Volatility and Interfirm Group
Fitness
August 5, 2008 – Information, Central Bank
Communication,and Aggregate Fluctuations
April 11, 2008 – Essays on Money, Banking and
Payments
September 16, 2008 – Essays on Global Sourcing with
Intermediate Goods
Wilfrid Laurier University
• Na Hao
• Xiang Li
• Antonia J. Swann
August 2008 – Economic Dynamics: Applications to
Public, Health and Labour Economics
March 2009 – Three Essays in Tournament Contracts
April 2009 – Essays in Competition, Innovation, R&D
and Pricing
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• Francisco Javier SantosArteaga
• Simin Seury
January 2009 – Incomplete Information & Rational
Choice: Continuous Lexicographic Choices,
Preference Manipulations, Errror-Induced Certainty
Equivalents & Information Gathering Algorithms
May 2009 – Inward Foreign Investment, Corruption
and Firm’s Ability: Evidence from the Transition
Economies
CONFERENCES/CONFÉRENCES
Mini-Workshop on Post-Financial-Crisis Macro-Finance at Carleton
University
Professor Hashmat Khan organized a lunchtime mini-workshop on September 23,
2009. Several colleagues from the Economics Department at Carleton University –
including the Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics (CMFE) Co-Director,
Charles Freedman, Professor Lilia Karnizova from the University of Ottawa, Ali Dib
and Wei Dong from the International Department of the Bank of Canada, and a
number of graduate students, participated in an engaging discussion over pizza and
pop. Professor Huntley Schaller gave a short presentation summarizing his
reflections on various meetings he had while on sabbatical last year primarily at
Princeton University.
Annual CESG Conference
From the 18th to the 20th of September this Fall, the Economics Department at
Carleton University was proud to host the 26th Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Econometrics Study Group (CESG). This meeting brings together eminent
econometricians from across Canada and around the world to present cutting-edge
research across the spectrum of their field. The CESG is a unique forum in which
leading scholars can share econometric ideas and form new collaboration. This year
was no exception.
The theme of the conference was “Identification and Inference:
Macroeconometric and Microeconometric Perspectives”. A total of fourteen papers
were presented in-session with high-calibre feedback from the associated discussants.
The poster session comprising seventeen papers was well attended and very
successful as in previous years. The meeting also featured invited presentations from
Professor Tiemen Woutersen of Johns Hopkins University, Professor Frank
Schorfheide of the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Elie Tamer of
Northwestern University.
The success of this year’s CESG was a direct result of the organization and hard
work of the program committee and members of the Carleton Economics department.
Special recognition is owed to the local organizers – Professor Lynda Khalaf and
Professor Marcel Voia – for their investments of time, dedication, and expertise,
which ensured and excellent conference.
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Title:
Annual Department of Economics Delta Marsh Conference
Topic Title: Money and Banking
Dates:
Was held October 2 & 3, 2009
Location:
University of Manitoba Delta Marsh Field Station
Contact person: Professor Janet Jiang
Contact e-mail: janet_jiang@umanitoba.ca
Web address:
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/economics
Title:
Dates:
Location:
Contact person:
Contact e-mail:
Web address:
The Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy
Was held 24 septembre 2009
HEC Montréal
Hafedh Bouakez et Michel Normandin
hafedh.bouakez@hec.ca et michael.normandin@hec.ca
http://132.203.59.36/CIRPEE/index.html
Title:
Dates:
Location:
Contact person:
Contact e-mail:
Web address:
9e Conférence annuelle-Les Journées du CIRPÉE
Was held 2-3 octobre 2009
Saint-Michel-des-Saints
Hafedh Bouakez et Michel Normandin
hafedh.bouakez@hec.ca et michael.normandin@hec.ca
http://132.203.59/36/CIRPEE/index.html
Title:
Dates:
Location:
How Access to Firm-Level Data Informs Public Policy
May 6 & 7, 2010
Hand-Purvis Conference Room, Dunning Hall, Room 213,
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Contact person: Professor Chris Ferrall or Sharon Sullivan
Contact e-mail: ferrallc@queensu.ca or sullivas@econ.queensu.ca
Web address:
http://jdi.econ.queensu.ca/
44th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics
Association
Dates:
May 28-30, 2010
Location:
Quebec City
Program chair: Victoria Zinde-Walsh (McGill University)
Local organizer: Jean-Yves Duclos (Laval University)
Web address:
http://www.economics.ca/2010.
Title:
Title:
Fourth World Congress of Environmental and Resource
Economists
Dates:
June 28 to July 2, 2010
Location:
ESG–UQAM – Montréal
Contact person: Gérard Gaudet / Pierre Lasserre
Contact e-mail: gerard.gaudet@umontreal.ca / info@wcere2010.org
Web address:
http://www.wcere2010.org/
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Title:
Dates:
Location:
Thirteenth World Congress for Social Economics
June 28 to July 1, 2010
Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy
Concordia University, Montreal
Contact person: Morris Altman
Contact e-mails: morris.altman@vuw.ac.nz
Web address:
http://www.socialeconomics.org
Title:
Dates:
Location:
Contact person:
Contact e-mails:
Web address:
Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting
July 8 to 10, 2010
Montreal
Rui Castro and Francisco Ruge-Murcia
rui.castro@umontrael.ca and francisco.ruge-murcia@umontreal.ca
http://www.economicdynamics.org/sed2010.htm
MISCELLANEOUS/DIVERS
Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics Official Launch Event
The Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics (CMFE) was launched formally
on June 5th, 2009, with Dr. Charles (Chuck) Freedman and Professor Stephen Ferris
as its first Co-Directors. Following the launch formalities, the Centre hosted its firstever, high-profile event: a lecture by Dr. Laurence H. Meyer who served as a
member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from June 1996
until January 2002. His talk was titled “The Great Global Recession: How It
Happened and What Can Be Done about It.”
Festschrift for Ehsan Choudhri
On Septebmber 25th, the Department of Economics and the Centre for Monetary and
Financial Economics held a festschrift for Professor Ehsan Choudhri. The all-day
program consisted of series of invited papers featuring Ehsan’s research in the areas
of international and monetary economics. Most of the papers were given by present
and former colleagues who have written with Ehsan in the past (and who continue to
collaborate with him in the present). Among the former colleagues presenting papers
were: Michael Bordo from Rutgers, Larry Schembri at the Bank of Canada, John
Chant at Simon Fraser, Roy Ruffin and the University of Houston. In addition,
papers were delivered by Ehsan’s current departmental collaborators, Richard
Brecher and Zhiqi Chen, and a number of internationally well-known field experts,
including Ron Jones from Rochester, Keith Maskus from the University of Colorado,
and Dalia Hakura from the International Monetary Fund. Discussion of the papers
and chairing of the sessions was done by Ehsan’s colleagues. As expected, the
conference was well attended by Ehsan’s colleagues, friends, and both current and
past students.
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OBITUARIES – IN MEMORIAM
Erwin Klein
It is with great sadness that Dalhousie University announce the death of Dr.
Erwin Klein on March 14, 2009. Erwin was a member of the Department of
Economics from 1967 to 1998. He earned a law degree from the University of
Buenos Aires, followed by a doctorate in Economics, Dr. rer. pol. in economics from
Kiel and Hamburg. While he was a full time faculty member, he went on to obtain a
M.Sc. in Mathematics at Dalhousie.
Erwin became a Full Professor in 1978. He served as Chair of the Department of
Economics from 1983 to 1994. He was a well respected and very successful
scholar. His interests included Mathematics, Mathematical Economics, the
Philosophy of Science and Model Theory. His publications included Mathematical
Methods in Theoretical Economics: Topological and Vector Space Foundations of
Equilibrium Analysis (New York: Academic Press, 1973) and, with Anthony C.
Thompson, Theory of Correspondences: Including Applications to Mathematical
Economics (New York: Wiley, 1984). Following retirement, Erwin and his wife
Estelle settled down in Argentina. Erwin continued teaching as a professor in the
graduate program of the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires.
Erwin is survived by his wife Estelle Hammengren-Klein, his daughter Veronica
(Montreal), his step-daughters Rachel (United States) and Maria (Sweden).
Jeffrey I. Bernstein, 1950-2009
It is with deep sadness that Carleton University reports that Jeffrey I. Bernstein
passed away on July 22, 2009, after a valiant battle against leukemia. He was 59
years old.
Jeff graduated From Sir George Williams University in Montréal in 1971 and
earned his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario In 1974. After teaching at
the University of Guelph, Concordia University, and McGill University, Jeff spent
most of his academic career at Carleton University, which he joined as an Associate
Professor of Economics in 1981. In 2002, Carleton awarded Jeff the honourary title
of Chancellor’s Professor. In 2006, Jeff moved to join the Department of Economics
at Florida International University, where he played a key role in its Ph.D. program.
Jeff was appointed to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Productivity program in 1985 and was also active in the Conference on Research in
Income and Wealth (CRIW). His research focussed on the modelling and
measurement of productivity in a wide range of industries such as insurance and
telecommunications. Jeff published nearly 70 articles and was regularly sought out as
an expert witness in regulatory matters.
Many who knew Jeff well remember his lighter side, particularly his sense of
humour and his love of playing drums. He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Lidia,
and their daughter, Jasmine.
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CANADIAN WOMEN ECONOMISTS (CWEN)
/ RFÉ REPORT
The Canadian Women Economists Network (CWEN) announces its Executive for
2009-2010:
President:
Vice-President:
Past President:
Secretary/Treasurer:
Members-at-large:
Joanne Roberts <robertjk@ucalgary.ca>
University of Calgary
Christine Neill, Wilfrid Laurier University
Yanling Wang, Carleton University
Marina Adshade, Dalhousie University
Janice Crompton, University of Manitoba
Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto (Scarborough)
Gillian Hamilton, University of Toronto
Lynda Khalaf, Carleton University
A. Abigail Payne, McMaster University
Brenda Spotton Visano, York University
CWEN is putting together travel funding for junior scholars (graduate students and
junior faculty) to attend study group meetings. Anyone interested should check the
CWEN website - http://www.yorku.ca/cwen/.
CWEN Luncheon Address 2009: Why Do We Need a Canadian Women Economists
Network? – Francis Woolley..................................................................... pg. 12
CWEN Panel: The Status of Women – An International Comparison – Yanling Wang
...................................................................................... pg. 17
CWEN Panel: The Status of Women Economists in Canada – Janice Compton and
Christine Neill ...................................................................................... pg. 19
CWEN Panel: The Status of Women Economists in China’s Universities and the
Research Training Program for Women – Xiao-Yuan Dong .................. pg. 20
CWEN Panel: The Status of U.S. Female Academics as Seen Through the Lens of
the CSWEP Survey – Barbara M. Fraumeni ............................................ pg. 21
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Why Do We Need a Canadian
Women Economists Network?1
by Frances Woolley
Professor of Economics, Carleton University
Sometimes people ask ‘Why do we need a Canadian Women Economists Network?’
For many years, we didn’t. In the 1970s, and even the 1980s, there were so few
women in the Canadian economics profession that it was easy for everyone to know
everybody. The almost empty women’s washrooms at CEA meetings were a
friendly place to connect. But when the number of female economists in Canada
began to grow in the late 80s and 1990s, we needed another way to network.
CWEN started at a breakfast meeting at the Victoria meetings in 1990. Lorraine
Eden had just been elected as vice-president of the CEA, and she saw an opportunity
to create a network that would parallel the AEA’s Committee for the Status of
Women in the Economics Profession, connecting women, monitoring women’s
progress in the profession, and raising women’s issues. She mailed letters to 25
women economists inviting them to a breakfast meeting. All but one (who wasn’t at
the meetings that year) showed up.
It might be hard for today’s PhD students and recent graduates to recognize how
lonely it could be for female economists back then. CWEN’s directory of women
economists published in 1991 lists the number of women on faculty in each
department. Some departments, such as Waterloo or McMaster, had no female
faculty, most had one or two, more than that was relatively rare.
Being the only woman – or one of two or three women – gave one a certain
freedom. Simply because you were not quite one of the guys, you were not bound by
quite the same rules. But some things were more difficult – like asking a colleague
to go for coffee or lunch. The women I met through CWEN, who I could contact
with this relatively new thing called email, were a source of support and friendship.
Having role models like Roberta Robb, who somehow managed to balance kids,
career, marriage, and still be a sane and balanced person, helped too.
Almost twenty years after that first breakfast meeting, things are different. The
hiring boom of the last few years has brought unprecedented numbers of women into
the economics profession. Just how much things have changed can be seen in Figure
1, calculated from Statistics Canada data published each year in the CAUT almanac
(see www.caut.ca). Less than a decade ago, there were just 15 female Full professors
in Canadian Economics departments, 40 Associates and 44 Assistants. In just six
years, the number of women with full-time teaching positions in Canadian economics
departments grew 60 percent.
1
CWEN Luncheon Address 2009.
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A more familiar way of
showing women’s progress
is the percentage of women
in the “pipeline”. Figure 2
provides Canadian data that
is roughly equivalent to the
US pipeline numbers
published annually by
CSWEP. The faculty figures
are based on the same
Statistics Canada data as
Figure 1; the PhD numbers
are full time equivalent
enrolments.2 As Janice
Compton and Christine Neill report in their talk, also summarized in this newsletter,
women have been hired in even greater numbers in the last couple of years, so these
figures may understate the number of women currently at the Assistant Professor
level.
In Canada from 2000 to 2006 there were proportionately fewer female
economists in academia than in US PhD-granting institutions.3 The proportion
female at the Assistant level varies but seems to trend upwards. The percentage
female at Full and Associate is trending steadily upwards, in part because women
hired in the 1980s and 1990s are moving up through the ranks, and in part because
the mostly-male generation of academics hired in the 1960s and the 1970s has
reached retirement age.
The idea of a pipeline is
that, as women flow from
undergraduate to graduate
education, then through the
professorial ranks, the Full,
Associate and Assistant lines
as shown in Figure 2 will
trend upwards, until they
converge with PhD
enrollments in a genderequitable steady state. But
there are leaks in the pipeline.
As Figure 2 shows, the
proportion of women at the
Assistant Professor level is lower than the proportion of women in Canadian doctoral
2
Since the 2000-1 and 2003-4 doctoral enrollment data were missing from the CAUT
publications, those numbers are an average of the years immediately before and after.
3
The Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession reports are available
at http://www.cswep.org/annual_reports/2007_CSWEP_Annual_Report.pdf.
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programs. One reason for the difference may be non-completion of doctorates. For
the two years that I have CAUT almanac data on the number of doctorates in
economics received by gender (1998-9 and 2000-1) the portion of doctorates
received by women is lower than one would expect given the enrolment numbers
(17.5% and 22.5% respectively). An alternative explanation is that women find
government an attractive and collegial place to work. The culture of some academic
economics departments – aggressive questioning during seminars, going down to the
pub for a drink, the family/tenure conflict – may create particular challenges for
women. Finally, graduate education is more like a sprinkler system than a pipeline.
Canadian undergraduates are sprinkled across Canada, into the US and Europe.
People from all over the world do graduate work in Canada. Some of those graduates
go on to teach in Canadian universities, but at least half do not.4 Canadian economics
departments recruit faculty internationally, so there is no necessary connection
between Canadian doctoral enrollments and Canadian assistant professor hires.
What about the pipeline from assistant to associate, associate to full? Ten years
ago, CWEN and the CEA struck a joint committee to examine the status of women in
the Canadian economics profession. Their report, written by Brenda Spotton Visano,
identified SSHRC success rates as one of the key gender disparities in economics. In
2001/2, women’s SSHRC success rate was 18.2%, men’s was 55.6%.5 The figures in
Table 1, provided by Nicolas Germain of SSHRC, shows that a gender disparity still
exists.
Table 1: 2008-2009 SSHRC Funding Success in Economics by Gender
Scholar
Type
New
Regular
Total
Gender
Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
All
n
15
37
8
80
23
117
2008
Funded
n
%
1
6.7%
7
18.9%
4
50.0%
37
46.3%
5
21.7%
44
37.6%
All
n
26
37
9
64
35
101
2009
Funded
n
%
4
15.4%
6
16.2%
4
44.4%
32
50.0%
8
22.9%
38
37.6%
Total
140
49
35.0%
136
46
33.8%
These statistics concern the applicants, not the collaborators and co-applicants. Regarding
the definition of new scholar, see the SSHRC website (www.sshrc.ca).
4
Unlike the AEA, the CEA does not collect information on what happens to Canadian PhD
students. I researched the current status of doctoral graduates listed in the August 2006 and
February 2007 CEA newsletter. Over half of the graduates are now in academic jobs. The men
and women who had received all of their education in Canada did well on the job market;
immigrant men did less well. I found three immigrant women in academic jobs, Christine Neill
(now at Wilfred Laurier), Kazuko Keno (University of Technology Sydney) and Cathy Ning
(Ryerson).
5
The report is available at http://www.yorku.ca/cwen/aab3_SWECReport.html
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SSHRC standard research grants are based on past research success. Women
usually apply as new scholars, but new scholars typically don’t get funded, because
they do not have strong enough track records. To be successful at SSHRC, you need
to be a star with publications in top-ranked journals – which is generally taken to
mean more international, less applied, less policy-oriented journals – and there are
few female stars. The value of CWEN is information. If you were unsuccessful in
2008 or 2009, you are not alone. You can explain to your Dean or Chair why your
grant was not successful. And you can use this information to think strategically
about how to apply for money from SSHRC. In your first year in a new
appointment, you are probably better off concentrating on getting your thesis
published, and waiting until you have a revise and resubmit or two before applying to
SSHRC. Alternatively, consider other SSHRC competitions, or apply with another
investigator.
Another gender inequality identified in the CWEN/CEA report was in salaries.
Today the salary of any economist paid over $100,000 per year is published in
Ontario’s annual salary disclosure.6 Anindya Sen, Hideki Ariizumi and Natasha De
Sousa have gathered additional data which complements the salary disclosure
information. Using their data set, I was able to calculate both the percentage of
Ontario economics faculty paid over $100,000 by rank and gender, and average
salaries paid for those earning over $100,000. Table 2 shows that, in 2006, the
average salary of a female academic economist in Ontario was lower than that of a
male at the same rank.
Table 2: 2006 Salary Information, Ontario Professors of Economics by Rank and Gender
Assistant
Associate
Full
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Number
90
28
86
22
118
5
Percent
earning over
26
7
62
59
82
60
$100,000
Average
salaries (over
$112,322
$104,735
$121,039
$116,969
$137,527
$111,592
$100,000)
The disparities in SSHRC funding and salaries that still exist show why we still
need CWEN. But what has been accomplished since the first breakfast meeting
almost twenty years ago shows how far we have come.
• In 1991, Nancy Oleweiler was the first woman to edit an association journal,
becoming managing editor of Canadian Public Policy.
• In 1992, Margaret Slade joined Lise Salvas-Bronsard as Associate Editor of the
Canadian Journal of Economics and so – very briefly – the CJE had an all-
6
Available at http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/publications/salarydisclosure/2009/. These
salary figures are based on actual amounts paid to the employee, so will be lower than the
employee’s full salary for people on leave.
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•
•
•
•
•
female AE team. Robin Boadway, the then-editor, has mentored many female
economists over the years.
In 1993, Angela Redish was the first woman to give the CEA’s Innis Lecture.
In 1994 Alice Nakamura became the first female president of the CEA.
In 2002, Karen Ruckman was the first woman – and the first person – to win the
Mundell Prize for the best paper in the CJE published by a young scholar. The
Mundell Prize is noteworthy for being won by women more often than men
through its history.
In 2004, Barbara Spencer became the CEA’s second female president. Barbara
was also the first woman to win the Harry Johnson Prize in 1981.
In 2008, Kari Polanyi Levitt was the inaugural winner (with Mel Watkins) of the
Progressive Economics Forum's John Kenneth Galbraith Prize.
Many barriers have fallen for female economists. But there are still peaks for the
next generation to climb. There has never been a female editor of the Canadian
Journal of Economics. No woman has ever won the Association’s $10,000 Rae
Prize.
Being smart and hard working is generally a necessary, rather than a sufficient,
condition for professional success. The editors of CJE and CPP are chosen by a
committee selected by the Canadian Economics Association Executive Council and
chaired by the previous-but-one editor – so Dwayne Benjamin will chair a committee
to replace the current editor David Green, for example. The associate editors of the
CJE are chosen by the current editor.
The members of the CEA Executive Council are chosen by a nominating
committee. What is not generally known is that nominations of candidates may be
made by any five members, submitting a nomination paper signed by themselves and
the nominee, to the Secretary-Treasurer no later than March 1 of the year of the
election. (There has been only one contested election in CEA history).
If you’re not happy with the direction of the Association, nominate someone
different – for Council or for President.
Although the aim of this talk has been to inspire you to go out and try to make
the world a better place, I have to confess for me the truly inspiring role models are
people who enjoy their lives and follow their own path, with honesty and integrity.
If you resist calls to sit on powerless committees, focus on your own research, and
have fun in your life, you might end up promoting the status of one woman in the
economics profession – yourself!
CWEN Panel: The Status of Women Economists: An
International Comparison
by Yanling Wang
Professor of Economics, Carleton University
During the Canadian Economics Association (CEA) 2009 annual meeting at Toronto,
Ontario, Professor Yanling Wang from Carleton University, then President of
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CWEN, organized a panel discussion titled “The Status of Women Economists: An
International Comparison”. Panelists are Professor Xiao-Yuan Dong from University
of Winnipeg, Professor Janice Compton from University of Manitoba, and Professor
Barbara Fraumeni from University of Southern Maine, and the Moderator was
Professor Christine Neill from Wilfred Laurier University. Professor Dong gave an
introduction about the research training program for Chinese women economists, and
Professor Compton and Professor Fraumeni talked about the status of women
economists in Canada and the United States respectively. Below is a short summary
of the presentation.
The Chinese Case: Professor Dong first introduces the main findings of a 2002
survey on the status of women economists in Chinese universities. The survey shows
that Chinese women, like women elsewhere in the world, do not participate fully and
equally in the academic economics profession. They constitute a very small
percentage of senior faculty and academic administrators. Compared to their male
colleagues, women have a shorter career life, work more years to be promoted to the
most senior rank, earn less at each rank, carry a heavier teaching load, and are less
active in research activities. While the representation of women is much higher
among academic economists in China than in Canada, Chinese women economists
endure larger gender disparities in career progress, earnings, teaching, and research.
The presentation next reports some efforts to closing the gender gaps in
economic research in Chinese university. Under the sponsorship of the Ford
Foundation, a research training and mentoring program for young women economists
was established at the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University in
2002, under Professor Xiao-Yuan Dong’s initiative. Since then about 200 junior
faculty and research fellows in China have been admitted to the program and 30
experts on China studies from the US, Canada, Australia, UK, and China have served
as research mentors for the program. The training program has become a “women‘s
economic forum” in China where junior women economists come for advanced
training in conducting economic research; where more established scholars come to
refresh their skills and get help in gaining visibility in domestic and international
circles; and finally, where established scholars come to share their skills and
experience with those who have not advanced as far in their careers.
The Canadian Case: Professor Compton based her talk on the data compiled by
Christine Neill. The data show that currently, 36.3% of assistant professors, 19.5% of
associate professors and 9.3% of full professors in Canadian university economics
departments are women.7 Initially, these figures looked promising – the pipeline is
there and women appear to be making inroads at the higher ranks.
And that pipeline has been for decades. In 1999, women made up 31.3% of
Canadian economic assistant professors, 11% of associate and 5.4% of full. If men
and women traveled through the ranks at the same rate, and assuming a timeline of
7
This data was collected from the faculty lists on Economics Department websites. In cases
where the gender of faculty members could not be determined, that faculty was not included
in the calculations.
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seven years as assistant and ten years as associate, then we would expect to see 30%
female at the associate rank. Professor Compton then sought the opinion of many
economists, asking them why women economists were not being tenured at the same
rate as their male colleagues. The following remarks are a compilation of responses
that she received. There is no analysis on which of these is more or less important;
they are simply presented as possibilities for future consideration.
Perhaps women are being denied tenure more often then men. Outright
discrimination was mentioned as a factor, but there are also a number of other factors
that would result in lower tenure rates. First, there may be gender differences in
quality. With employment equity considerations in hiring but not in tenure, male
assistant professors may be of higher quality on average. Second, university policies
on gender equality for committees may result in a high administrative burden on
junior female faculty. Third, women are more likely to be primary care-givers.
Although the parental benefits and clock stopping policies in this country have surely
contributed to the rise in female faculty rates, parents with young children may still
find it difficult to compete with colleagues who have fewer demands on their time.
Fourth, there may be gender differences in research preferences. If women are more
likely to prefer research topics that are currently less highly regarded than research
topics dominated by men, this may impact overall tenure rates. Finally, there may be
differences in networking opportunities and ability. I find it interesting to watch
where people choose to sit at conference lunches, and often observe junior women
gravitating towards a table where women are already seated. Since the large majority
of senior academics are men, a preference to socialize with women may negatively
impact networking opportunities.
On the other hand, perhaps women are more likely to opt out of economic
departments prior to promotion. Compiling data on exits would be beneficial. How
many move to the private sector, to government, to other academic departments (the
data covers only economics departments), to university administration, or to
opportunities outside Canada? Are they being pushed or pulled out of economics
departments?
Professor Compton noticed that we would benefit from more data on the subject
to better consider why the proportions of women have increased, why they have not
increased as far as one might have expected, and what, if anything, we may wish to
change.
CWEN Panel: The Status of Women Economists
in Canada
by Janice Compton and Christine Neill
Professors of Economics, University of Winnipeg and Wilfrid Laurier University
Data compiled by Christine Neill shows that currently, 36.3% of assistant professors,
19.5% of associate professors and 9.3% of full professors in Canadian university
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economics departments are women.8 Initially, these figures looked promising – the
pipeline is there and women appear to be making inroads at the higher ranks.
However, when I mentioned these figures to an older economist this past Spring,
he said he’s been seeing this same pipeline for decades. In 1999, women made up
31.3% of Canadian economics assistant professors, 11% of associate and 5.4% of
full. If men and women traveled through the ranks at the same rate, and assuming a
timeline of seven years as assistant and ten years as associate, then we would expect
to see 30% female at the associate rank. Throughout the Spring I sought the opinion
of many economists, asking them why women economists were not being tenured at
the same rate as their male colleagues. The following remarks are a compilation of
responses that I received. There is no analysis on which of these is more or less
important, they are simply presented as possibilities for future consideration.
Perhaps women are being denied tenure more often then men. Outright
discrimination was mentioned as a factor, but there are also a number of other factors
that would result in lower tenure rates. First, there may be gender differences in
quality. With employment equity considerations in hiring but not in tenure, male
assistant professors may be of higher quality on average. Second, university policies
on gender equality for committees may result in a high administrative burden on
junior female faculty. Third, women are more likely to be primary care-givers.
Although the parental benefits and clock stopping policies in this country have surely
contributed to the rise in female faculty rates, parents with young children may still
find it difficult to compete with colleagues who have fewer demands on their time.
Fourth, there may be gender differences in research preferences. If women are more
likely to prefer research topics that are currently less highly regarded than research
topics dominated by men, this may impact overall tenure rates. Finally, there may be
differences in networking opportunities and ability. I find it interesting to watch
where people choose to sit at conference lunches, and often observe junior women
gravitating towards a table where women are already seated. Since the large majority
of senior academics are men, a preference to socialize with women may negatively
impact networking opportunities.
On the other hand, perhaps women are more likely to opt out of economic
departments prior to promotion. Compiling data on exits would be beneficial. How
many move to the private sector, to government, to other academic departments (the
data covers only economics departments), to university administration, or to
opportunities outside Canada? Are they being pushed or pulled out of economics
departments?
We would benefit from more data on the subject to better consider why the
proportions of women have increased, why they have not increased as far as one
might have expected, and what, if anything, we may wish to change.
8
This data was collected from the faculty lists on Economics Department websites. In cases
where the gender of faculty members could not be determined, that faculty was not included in
the calculations.
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CWEN Panel: The Status of Women Economists in China’s
Universities and the Research Training Program
for Women Economists
by Xiao-Yuan Dong
Professor of Economics, University of Winnipeg
The presentation first introduces the main findings of a 2002 survey on the status of
women economists in Chinese universities. The survey shows that Chinese women,
like women elsewhere in the world, do not participate fully and equally in the
academic economics profession. They constitute a very small percentage of senior
faculty and academic administrators. Compared to their male colleagues, women
have a shorter career life, work more years to be promoted to the most senior rank,
earn less at each rank, carry a heavier teaching load, and are less active in research
activities. While the representation of women is much higher among academic
economists in China than in Canada, Chinese women economists endure larger
gender disparities in career progress, earnings, teaching, and research.
The presentation next reports some efforts to closing the gender gaps in
economic research in Chinese university. Under the sponsorship of the Ford
Foundation, a research training and mentoring program for young women economists
was established at the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, in
2002, under Professor Xiao-Yuan Dong’s initiative. Since then about 200 junior
faculty and research fellows in China have been admitted to the program and 30
experts on China studies from the US, Canada, Australia, UK, and China have served
as research mentors for the program. The training program has become a “women‘s
economic forum” in China where junior women economists come for advanced
training in conducting economic research; where more established scholars come to
refresh their skills and get help in gaining visibility in domestic and international
circles; and finally, where established scholars come to share their skills and
experience with those who have not advanced as far in their careers.
The Status of U.S. Female Academics as Seen Through
the Lens of the CSWEP 9 Survey
by Barbara M. Fraumeni
Professor of Economics, University of Southern Maine
CSWEP Chair
The CSWEP surveys provide a context to understand the status of women in the
economics profession, complemented by academic research. Just over ten years ago
David Warsh, then the Boston Globe economics columnist, wrote an article
describing the Ph.D granting department survey results with what he called the “rule
of one-half.” Ten years later, his rule of one-half has morphed into the rule of one9
Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, American Economic
Association
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quarter as progress has been made. Ginther and Kahn in the Summer 2004 Journal of
Economic Perspectives looked at the rate at which female economists in the U.S. are
receiving tenure. Given the survey numbers and their research, questions remain.
So what is the rule of one-half and the new rule of one-quarter? Warsh observed
looking at the CSWEP data for the 2007-8 academic year that if you take the
percentage of assistant professors who are female (about 26%) and multiply it by
one-half you get the percentage of associate professors who are female (about 13%).
If you then take the associate professor percentage and multiply it by one-half you
get the percentage of full professors who are women (about 6.5%). In the latest data
for the 2008-9 academic year, if you multiply the percentage of assistant professors
who are female (about 29%) and multiply it by one-quarter (one-half times one-half)
you get something less than the percentage of full professors who are female (about
9%). This is just a “skip” version of the one-half rule as you skip the associate
professor step. The skip occurs because the percentage of associate professors who
are female (about 21%) is 75% of the percentage of assistant professors who are
women. So there is a large “blip” at the associate professor level. Although enough
time has passed for this blip to begin to significantly impact on the full professor
percentage, this has not yet happened.10
The Ginther-Kahn article begins by taking a longer and cross-discipline view,
comparing the percentage of tenured faculty who are female in economics, statistics,
political science, life science, physical sciences, and engineering during the seventies
through the beginning of the 21st century. Between 1987 and 2001, the percentage of
female tenured professors grew more rapidly in each of the other disciplines than in
economics. They conclude:
“We find that compared with other academic disciplines, women are less likely
to get tenure and take longer to achieve it. Although gender differences in
productivity and the effect of children on promotion partly explain women’s lesser
chances of receiving tenure in economics, a significant portion of the gender
promotion gap remains unexplained by observable characteristics.”
More information about the survey, the newsletter referred to above, and a
description of the many CSWEP sponsored activities can be found at
www.cswep.org.
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Rationalize the Equity Premium
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In the most recent CSWEP newsletter the text accompanying a University Full Professor
Honor Roll noted that about 40% of all Ph.D. granting departments self-reported that there
were no female full professors in their department. The response rate to the CSWEP survey of
these departments was over 92%. 22
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2009.
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Robin W. Boadway and Anwar Shah. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Eltis and Kenneth Sokoloff. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Burgess and Glenn P. Jenkins (Kingston: John Deutsch Institute, Queen’s
University, in cooperation with McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).
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M. Beach, Bev Dahlby, and Paul A.R. Hobson (Kingston: John Deutsch Institute,
Queen’s University, in cooperation with McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010).
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The latter may be sent to: Professor Robert Dimand, Newsletter Editor, Department
of Economics, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario,
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