New article by Ayelet Shachar: Unequal access – wealth as barrier and accelerator to citizenship
June 28, 2021
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2021.1926076
Read full articleLatest Research: Articles, Papers, and Reports
Made in Ontario: A Provincial Manufacturing Strategy
June 8, 2021
This Ontario360 policy paper explores why manufacturing matters greatly for Ontario and outlines steps on how the province should engage supportive policies and partnerships to ensure Ontario remains Canada’s manufacturing hub. Read the paper.
Read full articlePower, ideas, and World Bank conditionality
June 1, 2021
How and why do the policy areas covered in World Bank loan conditions change over time and across borrowers? Authors Ben Cormier & Mark S. Manger hypothesize that shifts in the Bank’s economic research and policy priorities influence Bank loan conditions, even after...
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How to End Streaming in Ontario Schools
May 13, 2021
In this new policy paper from Ontario 360, authors Tianna Follwell and Sam Andrey show how streaming has harmful and disadvantageous consequences for both individual students and education systems more broadly. Read the full report.
Read full articleDeveloping Air and Land Control at Toronto’s Airport
May 12, 2021
Toronto’s Lester B. Pearson International Airport is the busiest in Canada and anchors the second-largest employment zone in the country. In a new paper for the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), Nick Lombardo examines the history of the...
Read full articleThe Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
May 12, 2021
Researchers Christian Dippel, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich, and Rodrigo Pinto investigate economic causes of the rising support of populist parties in industrialized countries. Looking at Germany, they find that exposure to imports from low wage countries increases the support for...
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Stephan Heblich co-authored article in The Economic Journal: The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
May 12, 2021
https://academic.oup.com/ej/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ej/ueab041/6274674?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Read full articleReforming Provincial Energy Planning: Summary and Analysis from Ontario 360’s Expert Roundtable
May 3, 2021
The following is a report on a virtual roundtable discussion hosted by Ontario 360 on March 29, 2021. It provides a context for the Ontario government’s long-term energy system planning and an overview of the key ideas expressed at the...
Read full articleOvercoming vaccine deployment challenges among the hardest to reach: lessons from polio elimination in India
May 3, 2021
After more than 30 years of efforts to eliminate polio, India was certified polio free by WHO in 2014. The final years prior to polio elimination were characterised by concentrated efforts to vaccinate hard-to-reach groups in the state of Uttar...
Read full articleEast-Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting
May 1, 2021
Why are the east sides of formerly industrial cities more deprived? To answer this question, researchers Stephan Heblich, Alex Trew and Yanos Zylberberg use individual-level census data and create historical pollution patterns derived from the locations of 5,000 industrial chimneys...
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