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Associate Professor
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BiographyI graduated from the University of Queensland (Australia) with a B.Economics (Hons) in 1992, and went to work as an economist in the Australian Treasury and later more briefly with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. I then took off to Canada to do an MA and eventually PhD at the University of Toronto, graduating in 2006 with a specialization in labour and public economics. My research has mostly been in the area of education policies, focusing primarily on university financing, student loan and related policies, and education decisions, though I have also worked on kindergarten policies and day care. Some research that Andrew Leigh (now an MP in Australia) and I did on how homicide and suicide rates changed following Australia’s 1996 National Firearms Agreement has attracted some attention. I am currently working on a couple of projects related to post-secondary education among Indigenous Canadians, and post-secondary education and taxation, and am hoping to get to work on a project on adult education I've been thinking of for some years now. Outside of research, I have been quite involved with the Canadian Women Economists Network, of which I was President, and am still fairly actively involved with its successor, the Canadian Women Economists Committee. As a result of that experience, I've done a fair amount of work on issues of diversity in universities more generally, with a focus on but not restricted to women's issues, including having been Women's Faculty Colleague at Wilfrid Laurier University and been an equity reviewer on research appointments. |
