Congratulations to Michael Baker, Derek Messacar and Mark Stabile on being awarded the 2024 Doug Purvis Memorial Prize by the Canadian Economics Association.
To help produce their winning work, “Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit”, the trio used Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Administrative Databank and Labour Force Survey datasets, accessed via the Research Data Centre located at the University of Toronto. Their work was published in the Journal of Labor Economics.
Baker is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto, while Messacar is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Memorial University, and Stabile is Dean of Degree Programmes, Dean of the Europe Campus and the Stone Chaired Professor of Wealth Inequality and Professor of Economics at INSEAD in France.
The Doug Purvis Memorial Prize is widely recognised as the foremost academic award for Canadian economic policy contributions and was established 30 years ago in 1994 to honour the memory of Canadian economist Doug Purvis, a key member of the Queen’s University Economics Department.
Past winners of the Doug Purvis Memorial Prize include fellow Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) researchers such as Pierre Fortin, David Card and W. Craig Riddell, CRDCN Principal Investigator and McMaster University RDC Academic Director Michael Veall, Carleton University RDC Academic Director Frances Woolley and past Quebec inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS) Executive Director Carole Vincent.
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