Miles Corak
Professor of economics Senior Scholar #socialmobility #childrights #inequality #cdnecon #EconTwitter
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2020 - January 31, 2021
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Miles Corak If you are a recent PhD graduate in labor or public economics working on inequality or social mobility, then join me and my colleagues . Here are the job ads for two post-docs we look forward to filling: 128d
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2020 - January 31, 2021
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Miles Corak If you are a recent PhD graduate in labor or public economics working on inequality or social mobility, then join me and my colleagues . Here are the job ads for two post-docs we look forward to filling: 128d
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Miles Corak "These arguments call not for the abolition of the GDP numbers, which are essential, but for a more intelligent use of the accounts and for measuring what it does not include" writes economist Angus Deaton via 148d
Canada’s Napa Valley Seeks Elusive Audience: Canadian Wine Drinkers
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British Columbia’s wines are improbably being embraced by wine snobs around the world. But legal restrictions, and regional biases, are getting in the way at home.
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Miles Corak Yes indeed, this is a sad statement about Canadian public policy, no free trade across provincial borders #cdnecon 163d
Canada Emergency Response Benefit - Canada.ca
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COVID-19 support for individuals , Canada Emergency Response Benefit
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Miles Corak h/t . The #CERB is a $500 weekly payment, somewhat less than the $1,500 Malika Thomas is proposing. 274d
Long-Run Effects from Comprehensive Student Support: Evidence from Pathways to Education
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(June 2020) - Offering comprehensive education support services to disadvantaged students shows promise for improving academic attainment. We explore longer-term impacts of the Pathways to Education program, a set of coaching, tutoring, group...
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Miles Corak A careful study by and Robert Brown compares participants to youth from similar backgrounds not participating in the program, offering a thorough analysis of adult outcomes. #cdecon 278d
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Miles Corak Download my Economics for Everyone lecture on the anatomy of the business cycle, how measures the unemployment rate, and my prediction that the US unemployment rate will jump to 10%, which told us is way too optimistic. 301d
The coronavirus recession is severe, and the damage to the U.S. economy will last years - Equitable Growth
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The coronavirus recession will create lasting damage to the economic well-being of families, businesses, and communities.
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Miles Corak My Economics for Everyone students thank for joining our class last night. She was fantastic! Read her article predicting the US unemployment rate will jump to 20% when releases the data on Friday. 301d
COVID-19 is not the great leveller, it’s the great revealer
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In a medical sense, COVID-19, as highly contagious as it is, can be thought of as the great leveller. No one has immunity, and we face the health risk of this virus with a sense of our common human…
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Miles Corak "The great revealer has arrived in the form of a virus, its economic fallout showing almost perfectly the divides between those who are vulnerable and those who are not." Read my post: #cdnecon #cdnpoli 323d
Success and Luck
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From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why that hurts everyone, and what we can do about it
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Miles Corak You'll enjoy this book 324d
Canada’s Labour Market
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Miles Corak My "Canada's Labour Market" dashboard is now updated with March 2020 Labour Force Survey data. Feel free to use it to visualize the historic changes that took place last month #cdnecon 328d
Google Searches Can Help Us Find Emerging Covid-19 Outbreaks
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They can also reveal symptoms that at first went undetected. I may have found a new one.
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Miles Corak "I can't smell" and "my eyes hurt" are leading indicators of #COVID19 Using machine learning follows up on work by in an interesting article 331d
The geography of intergenerational mobility in Canada and the United States
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This is Lecture 8 of the course ECON 85600, “Inequality, Economic Opportunity, and Public Policy,” that my class and I are now conducting online. You are welcome to participate, and can…
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Miles Corak My course, "Inequality, Economic Opportunity, and Public Policy," goes online, and you can follow along. Join me and my students. Listen to next lecture, "The geography of intergenerational mobility in Canada and the United States," and get the… 342d
A letter to the Canadian Prime Minister, with two suggestions for next steps in dealing with #COVID19
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Prime Minister, I certainly hope you and yours are well. I was in New York City up until last weekend. Earlier in the previous week the university where I work announced that it was moving all cour…
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Miles Corak Read my letter to with suggestions for making Canada's unemployment insurance program better suited to the needs of workers as #COVIDー19 leads to workplace closures. #cdnpoli #cdnecon 345d
Intergenerational mobility in theory
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This is Lecture 6 of the course ECON 85600, “Inequality, Economic Opportunity, and Public Policy,” that my class and I are now conducting online. You are welcome to participate, and can…
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Miles Corak My course on "Inequality, Economic Opportunity, and Public Policy" goes online. Here is Lecture 6 on "Intergenerational mobility in theory" 349d
David Ricardo’s explanation of the case for free trade rests on some basic economic principles, but also has a big public policy blind spot
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One survey of professional economists in the United States found that 93% would agree with the claim that restrictions on free trade through tariffs and import quotas would reduce economic welfare.…
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Miles Corak Hey, in these challenging times how can a lonely professor of Economics For Everyone cheer you up? Explain David Ricardo's case for free trade of course! #ECON4All 372d
Canada's Official Poverty Dashboard, February 2020
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Canada's Poverty Reduction Strategy introduces the Official Poverty Line for Canada with a dashboard of 12 Indicators to track progress on poverty reduction for Canadians and their households. This infographic presents detailed data comparisons and...
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Miles Corak The fall in the poverty rate reported by has been accompanied by a fall in the deep income poverty rate which fell from 5.1% in 2017 to 4.6% in 2018 At the same time food insecurity and unmet housing needs have increased #cdnecon #cdnpoli 373d
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Miles Corak . reports that Canada's poverty rate continues to fall to unprecedented lows, all the way to 8.7%, falling below 9% for the first time, and continuing its trend since 2015. #cdnpoli #cdnecon 373d
Scarcity and its implications
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Scarcity defines the economic way of thinking Scarcity is a simple idea, yet it has major implications. If, as individuals or as a society, we have multiple objectives, and if our desires for these…
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Miles Corak Scarcity and its implications #ECON4All 379d
Leah Boustan talks about the challenges of asking the right research questions to the students of the Applied Economics Seminar at The Graduate Center
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This is the first of a recurring series of interviews where the PhD students at The Graduate Center talk with economists and other social scientists about their work and research experience. With t…
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Miles Corak . talks about the challenges of asking the right research questions to the economics students . This is an interview of interest to all early career researchers. Read it! 387d