Director

Dr. Jane Friesen, Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, is an empirical labour economist who has studied a variety of issues, including the effects of government policies such as employment insurance and employment standards legislation on labour markets. Her research interests are currently focused on issues related to the effects of organization and funding of the education system on students outcomes, the determinants of school choice, and intergroup attitudes and behavior. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto. Jane lists some representative publications on her homepage.

Faculty Research Associates

Dr. Jasmina Arifovic, Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, has research interests in Learning and Adaptation, Experimental Economics, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Evolutionary Game Theory, and Computational Mechanism Design. Jasmina is also a Visiting Associate in Economics at the California Institute of Technology. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, and lists some representative publications on her homepage.

Dr. Olena Hankivsky is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, specializing in gender and social and health policy. She is a Co-Leader of the BC's Women's Health Research Network, funded by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Although her research has been largely focused on Canadian social and health policy, more recently she has started to investigate the care ethic's implications in the context of economic globalization. Olena lists some representative publications on her homepage.

Dr. Brian Krauth, Associate Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, has a number of research interests in applied microeconomics, and specializes in the development and application of new tools for measuring nonmarket interactions. His research is often focused on youth behavior, and has investigated policy-related issues such as job networking, youth smoking, and educational outcomes. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin. Brian lists some representative publications on his homepage.

Dr. Dan Laitsch is Assistant Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University. In addition to his teaching and research work in education, Dr. Laitsch is co-editor of the International Journal for Education Policy and Leadership. He has served as both the Chair and Program Chair of the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group on Research Use. Dr. Laitsch is associated with the Joint Consortium for School Health (JCSH) and has worked with JCSH and the Association for Curriculum Development (ASCD) on school health issues in BC and across Canada. Research interests include the use and misuse of research in policymaking and issue advocacy, policy issues related to market-based education reform efforts, the impact of high stakes accountability and assessment programs on educational systems, and school health approaches to systemic education reform. He earned his doctorate from American University, in Washington, DC. Read more at his homepage.

Dr. Andrew McGee, Assistant Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, has research interests in labour economics and applied econometrics. He holds a PhD in Economics from Ohio State.

Dr. Simon Woodcock, Associate Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, has research interests in labour economics, panel data econometrics, and statistical disclosure limitation. His current research focuses on matching and sorting in the labour market; the role of information in school choice decisions; and inference-valid methods to protect confidentiality in longitudinal data. He holds a PhD in Economics from Cornell University. Simon lists some representative publications on his homepage.

Dr. Stephen Wright is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology at Simon Fraser University. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Stephen's research investigates the social psychology of intergroup relations: the scientific study of how our thoughts about, feelings towards, and interactions with others are effected by our own and others group memberships. All of his work holds as fundamental the concept of collective identity—that the groups we belong to form an essential part of our understanding of who we are. You can find out more at his homepage.

Visiting Faculty, 2009

Dr. Kevin Milligan is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He is a Research Fellow with the C.D. Howe Institute and a Faculty Research Fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research, with interests in the fields of public and labour economics and a focus on the economics of children and the elderly, as well as other tax and labour market policy topics. Professor Milligan has published (with Enrico Moretti and Philip Oreopoulos) a study of the role of education in fostering better citizenship and several papers on early childhood development that speak to school preparedness. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed publications such as the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Public Economics, and Canadian Public Policy. Read more here.

Post-Doctoral Fellows - Past

Dr. Gamze Baray

Graduate Students - Current

Ricardo Meilman Lomaz Cohn (Economics)
Reza Sattari (Economics)
Tenzin Yindok (Economics)

Graduate Students - Past

Ebhahim Azizi (Economics)
Michele Battisti (Economics)
Ben Harris (Economics)
Mohsen Javdani (Economics)
Yang Wang (Economics)
Michele Buckman (Economics)
Glenn Bullard (Education)
Lisa Droogendyk (Psychology)
Norann Richard (Psychology)
Ginger Gosnell-Myers (Public Policy)
Alfred Kong (Economics)
Olena Kostyshyna (Economics)
Mariana Radisavljevic (Education)
Greta Visitor (Public Policy)
Barbara Waldern (Education)
Sophie Wang (Economics)
Klaus Edenhoffer (Geography)
Ross Hickey (Economics)
Lisa Giamo (Social Psychology)
Andreas Ludwig (Economics)
Joseph Comeau (Economics)
Giuseppe Danese (Economics)
Heather Millar (Public Policy)
Gillian Sykes (Public Policy)