This session brings together CRDCN researchers and colleagues from Health Canada and will focus on understanding how applied research using RDC data can be used to inform Health Policy in Canada. The focus will be on current priorities of Health Canada including mental health and children’s health. Participants are encouraged to bring their questions about Health Canada research priorities and needs. Alan Diener, Assistant Director of Policy Research, Economics, and Analytics at Health Canada will present and lead this discussion.

This session brings together CRDCN researchers and colleagues from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to discuss some priority areas within the IRCC mandate that would benefit from further research, such as research related to new Census data and various immigration outcomes. The session, opening with a presentation and panel discussion, will invite all participants to contribute to the discussion about ways that CRDCN, researchers, and IRCC can together address the research needs identified. Chris Hamilton, Director of Research and Knowledge Mobilization will present and lead the discussion. 

This session brings together CRDCN researchers and colleagues from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and will focus on understanding the ESDC mandate and some priority areas for research that inform ESDC policy, programs and services. Participants are encouraged to bring their questions about research at ESDC. Stéphane Gascon, Director of Service Research at ESDC, will present and lead this discussion. 

This session invites colleagues from SAS, Statistics Canada and several government departments to share insight and tips for exploring and pursuing careers in their fields and will be followed by a robust Q&A. The session is intended to provide graduate students and early career researchers with information about research careers outside of university settings.

• Ken Fyie, University of Calgary, An Analysis of Disability Tax Credit Utilization
• Saul Schwartz (Antoine Genest-Gregoire, Jennifer Robson, Josh Dadjo), Carleton University, What Proportion of Tax Returns Could the Canada Revenue Agency Complete?  
• Joe Lesica, Statistics Canada, Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains Realization: Empirical Evidence from Canada  
• Sobia Jafry, University of Toronto, Old Money vs. New Money: Effects of Age on Realization Response to Capital Gains Tax  

Chair: Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University 

• Diana Lewis F (Rachael Contini, Lara Durksen, Veronica Reitmeier, Antonina Struminski-Bodden, Olivia Thom), University of Guelph, Transforming how Regional Data Centre Data is leveraged to support Indigenous health and wellbeing autonomy in communities affected by industry  
• Avi Biswas, University of Toronto, Can Machine Learning Provide Insights on the Predictors of Worker Physical Activity  
• El Zahraa Majed (Ian Janssen, Lucie Lévesque), Queen’s University, Adherence to the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines among Immigrants in Canada  
• Octavia Wong, York University, Validating a treatment-based algorithm to determine the prevalence of type 1 diabetes in Canada  

Chair: Magali Girard, Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics 

• Herb Schuetze (Jen Baggs), University of Victoria, Firm Characteristics and Immigrant Wage Outcomes in Canada  
• Audrey Appiah, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, Outcomes and Impacts of Employment Related Settlement Services  
• Jonathan Zhang (Wifag Adnan, Angela Zheng), McMaster University, Intergenerational Mobility of Refugee Immigrants: Analysis of Linked Landing Files and Tax Records   
• Rupa Banerjee (Rushde Akbar), Toronto Metropolitan University, Policy Evaluation: A Critical Examination of the Post-Graduate Work Permit Program for International Graduates’ Earnings   

Chair: Benoit Dostie, HEC Montréal 

• Heather Dicks, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Gender, migration and money: Exploring gendered remittance-sending patterns and purposes (presented by / présenté par Lisa Kaida, McMaster University) 
• Lynn Arner, Brock University, Motherhood and Class in the Canadian Professoriat  
• Ana Ferrer (Annie Yazhuo Pan, Tammy Schirle), University of Waterloo, Labour market transitions of Canadian women, the added worker effect   
• Yao Pan, University of Ottawa, The Evolution of the Glass Ceiling in Canada: Gender-Based Income Inequality Among Top Earners  

Chair: Anne-Lore Fraikin, Labour Market Information Council 

• De-Lawrence Lamptey, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, The intersection of childhood disability, racial identity and household food insecurity in Canada  
• Geranda Notten (Landon Liu and Valerie Tarasuk), University of Ottawa, Poverty reduction politics and food insecurity  
• Maripier Isabelle, Université Laval, Is it all relative? The health impact of changes to absolute and relative income  
• Andrea Craig (Ryan A. Compton, Dörte Heger, Karl Skogstad), University of British Columbia at Okanagan, Conflict and Immigrant Health: Canadian Evidence  

Chair: Mhezbin Dharssi, Mhezbin Dharssi Consulting 

• Kevin Mongeon (Janique Dubois), University of Ottawa, Reconciling the Grade Gap between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Students  
• Michael Dubois, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, Post-Secondary Completion in Ontario: A Profile of Early Leavers and Their Labour Market Outcomes  
• Qian Liu, Brock University, The effects of grant aid on student persistence and degree attainment: evidence from Canada  
• Yacine Boujija (Xavier St-Denis), INRS, Leveraging Tax Data for Education Research: Complementing and Validating measures of PSE Participation through T1FF-LISA Linkage 

Chair: Adam Lavecchia, McMaster University

This session will address the challenges of providing access to health data for research and policy development. Joining former CRDCN Chair Andrew Bjerring as moderator will be: Ted McDonald, Professor and CRDCN Academic Director at the University of New Brunswick, member of the Health Data Research Network (HDRN) Canada Executive Committee and the CRDCN Board’s HDRN liaison; Kimberlyn McGrail, a Professor in the UBC School of Population and Public Health and Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and Scientific Director of Population Data BC and Health Data Research Network Canada; and Kathleen Morris, Vice President, Research and Analysis at the Canadian Institute for Health Information. 

In the poster session, researchers from a number of disciplines will summarize their research project and identify implications for public policy in a short presentation.  

1. Jasmine Zhang (Jackson Smith and Dillon Browne), University of Waterloo, Children’s activities, parental concerns, and child care service utilization in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic  
2. Takuya Shibayama (Martin Cooke), University of Waterloo, Health Consequences of Persistent Overqualification Among Immigrants in Canada  
3. Sumi Sasudevan, McMaster University, Generational Differences in Residential Mobility Decisions among South and East Asian Populations in Canada  
4. Natalie Doan (Martin Cooke, Michael Wallace, Elena Neiterman, and Dana Lee Olstad), University of Waterloo, Socioeconomic position dimensions and intersections associated with inequity in diet quality using conditional random forests  
5. Joy Yang (Allison Williams, Li Wang), McMaster University, Impact of Covid-19 on Unpaid Carer in Canada: Comparing 2018 General Social Survey and 2022 Canadian Social Survey  
6. Anfal Adawi, York University, Effect of Retirement on Life Satisfaction in Canada: Evidence from the 2008–2009 Canadian Community Health Survey–Healthy Aging  
7. Rebecca Frost, University of British Columbia/University of Chicago, Rough Patch: Lessons for a Green Transition from the 2014 Oil Price Shock  
8. Yihong Bai, McMaster University, Why do drinkers earn more? Job characteristics as a possible link   
9. Kiana Javaheri, McGill University, Social Well-Being of Canadian Adolescents in the Age of Social Media: The Role of Individual Attributes and Geo-Social Contexts  
10. Yu Lung, University of Toronto, A longitudinal analysis of precarious employment among immigrants and Canadian-born workers: Exploring the intersections of gender, race, and immigration-related factors  
11. Kady Carr and Anzo Anh Nguyen, University of Ottawa, Healthy Cities – Research on housing using data from the Ottawa Research Data Centre  
12. Fatima Ravazdezh, University of Ottawa, Assessing the Effects of New Bicycle Infrastructure on Travel Behaviour  
13. Diego Proaño Falconí, University of Toronto, Catastrophic health expenditure in Canada and dental out-of-pocket payments – Methodological aspects  
14. Peter Kitchen (Lisa Kaida, Noori Akhtar-Danesh, Allison Williams), McMaster University, Unintentional injury deaths among youth in Ontario, Canada from 2000 to 2015: rates are falling but there are caveats 
15. Phuong Vu, Western University, The Effects of Economic Conditions and Immigration Policy Changes on International Ph.D. Students in Canada  
16. Ismail Aslam, McMaster University, Utilization of Medical Expense Tax Credits in Canada  
17. Shannon Reaume, University of Waterloo, An epidemiological study of physical-mental multimorbidity in youth  
18. Sawayra Owais (Maria B. Ospina, Camron Ford, Troy Hill, Calan D. Savoy, Ryan J. Van Lieshout), McMaster University, Screen Time and the Socioemotional and Behavioural Difficulties Among Indigenous Children in Canada  
19. Moyo Sogaolu, McMaster University, Maternity and Parental Leave Benefits: Is More Better? The Experiences of Low-Income Mothers  
20. Allison Williams, McMaster University, Health of caregiver-employees in Canada: Determining the value of caregiver-friendly workplace policies and social support 

This session will be moderated by Daniel Silver, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and former CRDCN Board member and Academic Director. Confirmed speakers include: Josée Bégin, Assistant Chief Statistician, Social, Health and Labour Statistics Field at Statistics Canada; Ima Okonny, Chief Data Officer, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); Aled ab Iorwerth, Deputy Chief Economist, CMHC; and Jim Dunn, Associate Dean, Research Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University; Director, Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC). This session will be a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary conversation about the national housing challenge. Together, the panel will explore key data, research and policy issues related to this critical issue for Canadians, including the intersection with economic and social development, immigration, education, health and support for vulnerable populations.

• Zach Mahone (Bettina Brueggemann and Thomas Palmer), McMaster University, Sales and the Firm Lifecycle   
• Audra Bowlus (Chris Robinson, Tommas Trivieri), Western University, New Evidence on Skill Portfolio Evolution and Wages over the Lifecycle from the Canadian Longitudinal International Study of Adults  
• Guy Lacroix, Université Laval, The impact of the Tax Credit for Career Extension on the Labour Supply and Income of Retirement-Aged Workers  
• Marie Connolly (Catherine Haeck and Anne Mei Le Bourdais-Coffey), UQAM, Age at Immigration and the Intergenerational Income Mobility of the 1.5 Generation  

Chair: Richard Mueller, University of Lethbridge 

• Tasneem Khan (Martin Cooke), University of Waterloo, Household, Neighborhood and Community Contexts and the Mental Health of Immigrants  
• Glenda Babe, Western University, Residential Mobility and Mental Health Outcomes of Immigrants and Canadians in Ontario  
• Jordan Edwards, Offord Centre for Child Studies, High Intensity Physician-Based Service Use for Mental Health concerns in a General-Population Sample of Children and Youth in Ontario  
• Florence Perquier (Kathy Georgiades, Li Wang, Daphne Korczak, Marco Battaglia, Peter Szatmari, Madison Aitken), CAMH, Association of body weight status and body weight perception with depressive symptoms in adolescents living in Ontario, Canada: Implications for prevention, care, and policy  

Chair: Alan Diener, Health Canada

• Xavier St-Denis (Chih-lan Winnie Yang, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain), INRS, Documenting and explaining gender variations in social mobility patterns: Evidence from a large dataset of Canadian taxfilers  
• Jinette Comeau (Yuhoa Zhou, Tracy Smith-Carrier, and Jason Dean), King’s University College at Western University, The Intergenerational Persistence of Social Assistance Receipt: New Canadian Evidence  
• Brad Bass and Maxime Drolet, Indigenous Labour Market Information Research/Indigenous Affairs Directorate/Employment and Social Development Canada, Pathways for Indigenous Students in the Renewable Energy Sector  

Chair: James Doiron, University of Alberta 

• Andrew Dickens (Mathias Bühler), Brock University, From Couch to Poll: Media Content and Political Engagement  
• A.J. Lowik (Dr. Jessica Cameron, Jessy Dame, Dr. Jae Ford, Dr. Lex Pulice-Farrow, Dr. Travis Salway, Dr. Sari van Anders), University of British Columbia, Strategies for Improving Gender/Sex Accuracy, Precision and Inclusion in Research  
• Chih-lan Winnie Yang (Nicole Denier, Xavier St-Denis, Sean Waite), McGill University, Wage Trajectories of Individuals in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples: Evidence from Administrative Data  

Chair: Tina Fetner, McMaster University 

• Min Hu, University of British Columbia at Okanagan, Hockey Babies: National Hockey League Outcomes and Short-Term Fertility Spikes  
• Abdel-Hamid Bello, Université Laval, Healthy Babies, Happy Mamas: How Infant Health Shapes Maternal Earnings in Quebec  
• Rabiul Islam (Arthur Sweetman), McMaster University, Physician Labour Supply: A Microeconometric Framework for More Efficiently Using Survey Data  

Chair: Katherine Cuff, McMaster University

• Ebenezer Narh (Michael Buzzelli), Western University, Is relocation for higher education studies determined by field of study or desired location? A gravity model analysis of student migration in Canadian census metropolitan areas   
• Zihao Sheng, Dalhousie University, Assessing the Impact of School Disruptions and Covid-19 Policies on Parental Labour Market Outcomes   
• Kelly Foley (Maggie E.C. Jones), University of Saskatchewan, Short- and Long-Run Effects of High Stakes Tests  

Chair: Angela Zheng, McMaster University