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The Canadian Women Economists Committee/Comité des Femmes Économistes Canadiennes was created in 2017 as a standing committee of the Canadian Economic Association charged with supporting and promoting the advancement of women in the Canadian economics profession. We interpret 'women' broadly, to include those who identify as a woman and those whose gender expression may be perceived by society as being associated with being a woman or female. It follows directly from the Canadian Women Economist Network (CWEN) which was founded in 1990 as an independent association of persons interested in promoting women economists and their ideas. The change from CWEN to CWEC recognizes that this responsibility of supporting and promoting women does not just fall on women alone, but on the profession as a whole. Over the past three decades, CWEC/CWEN has been instrumental in promoting women’s involvement with and within the wider Canadian economics community. Check out our Summer 2025 Newsletter featuring interviews with our award winners and luncheon speaker. Check out our Winter 2025 Newsletter featuring an interview with two Canadian women economists about pre-docs in Economics and lots of information about upcoming events. Check out our Fall 2024 Newsletter featuring an interview with Nina Banks and reports on CWEC/CFÉC's CEA activities. Check out our Winter 2024 Newsletter featuring an article about Claudia Goldin and an interview with Brenda Eaton. Join our mailing list for our latest news and events BlueSky: @cdnwomenecon.bsky.social LinkedIn: Canadian Women Economists Committee Brown Bag Seminar Series Join our general mailing list to receive the zoom link for each date. Next talks up to April 2026 February 23 Andrea Craig, University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Rapid Transportation and Dwelling Prices: Proximity and Market Access, with Ian Herzog (University of Guelph)
Rapid transportation infrastructure projects are major government expenditures. Economic theory and empirical evidence suggest that the benefits of transportation improvements are capitalized into dwelling prices. The literature focuses on how proximity to new stations affects dwelling prices, but this combines effect of falling travel times with the effects of transit-oriented development and neighbourhood change. We separate these effects using changes in commuter market access, which grows when new rapid transit speeds up trips to employment centres. Data from Vancouver identify changes in market access both near and far from rail stations and highlight the role of feeder busses. Combining this data with housing transactions from BC Assessment, we analyze the impact of changes in market access and station proximity from Vancouver’s Canada Line on dwelling prices. Parsing these effects can improve our understanding of rapid transit's value and accessibility's effect on housing markets. Epio Odette Bayala, Université de Sherbrooke, Environmental Shock and Children’s health: The Case of Toxic Waste Dumping in Ivory Coast We analyze the persistent health consequences of the illegal dumping of toxic waste that occurred in Ivory Coast in 2006. By linking geospatial data on the locations of dumping sites with GPS coordinates of household clusters from the Demographic and Health Surveys, we measure exposure based on distance to the nearest contaminated site. Our estimates, based on spatial variation in proximity to the sites, show that each 10 kilometers increase in distance is associated with an improvement of 0.11 and 0.10 standard deviations in weight-for-age-for-age and weight-for-height scores, as well as a 3 and 2 percentage point reduction in the probability of underweight and wasting among children aged 0 to 5 years. Analysis of potential mechanisms suggests that adverse birth health conditions and deteriorating local economic activity are possible transmission channels. Overall, the results reveal the long-lasting health impacts of cross border pollution and highlight the substantial public health and environmental justice challenges posed by hazardous waste flows in developing countries. March 30 Yin Shi, University of Victoria, Forecasting Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Canada: An Empirical Macroeconomic Framework Nwakego Eyisi, Telfer School of Management, Measuring Front-End Innovation in Data-Constrained Economies: A New Index and Its Application to the FEI–Trade Nexus in Emerging Markets April 27 Justine Guillochon, Laval University, Green Tax Pass-Through to Retail Fuel Prices and Firm Heterogeneity: Evidence from France Apoorva Babbar, University of Calgari, Generative AI in Corporate Settings: Does Gender Matter? Share your link to your work: CWEC/CFÉC is starting a new initiative to share work by Canadian Women Economists and/or on gender-related topics in Economics. Please fill in this form to get your work listed on our website - we update submissions at the end of the month starting January 31 2025. By Canadian Woman economist we mean the following. The word ‘woman’ is interpreted quite broadly to include those who identify as a woman and those whose gender expression may be perceived by society as being associated with being a woman or female. "Canadian" means that you are either a Canadian working abroad or a person working in Canada. Canadian citizenship is not required if you work in Canada. Join our mailing list for our latest news and events. Contact information:
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