Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto, studying Labor Markets and Education
Joined March 2020
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8 Apr 2025
Had fun talking with my friend Scott Cunningham the other day about life as an economist and life in general.
causalinf.substack.com/p/s4e…
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8 Mar 2024
research on tutoring picking up...issue is not whether personalized learning is an effective strategy for how best to help kis, but go to get students to actually receive it at scale.
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31 Jan 2024
Disclosing nonbinary pronouns reduces positive employer response by 5.5pp, and this decline is larger in Republican communities. By @eames_taryn, our brilliant PhD student 👇
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12 Sep 2023
Honored to have participated in the Conversations on Economic Inclusion series from the @ClevelandFed. We talked about how tutoring and mentoring programs can be effective tools for bridging educational gaps and boosting achievement. Listen or read now: bit.ly/48pYpev
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13 Dec 2022
In November @SFUEcon hosted @POreopoulos from @UofT to talk about the power of personal assistance with Krishna Pendakur. Thank you David and Cecilia Ting and @BMO for supporting this event, and @SFUPublicSquare. A recording of the talk is available at: ow.ly/F8By50M2zIv
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5 Oct 2022
Distinguished Economics Professor @POreopoulos shows us how educational policies can improve students’ economic futures by offering a little personal assistance.
He headlines the @BMO Public Lecture Series on November 10th.
Join us in-person ow.ly/EkUJ50L2kGc
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Intensive employment support services in Canada increased long-term welfare recipients’ annual earnings by 20–27 percent over 20 years, from Gustavo J. Bobonis, Aneta Bonikowska, @poreopoulos, W. Craig Riddell, and Steven P. Ryan nber.org/papers/w30405
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1 Sep 2022
Covid learning loss is real and large. We need a way to scale up personalized learning to help every student get back on track from where they're currently at, and catch up at their own pace. The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/na…
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24 Aug 2022
Excited about my new Canadian textbook with Kevin Milligan, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers. Economics has added so much to its repertoire. It's exciting to be involved in bringing new applied and theoretical ideas to the next generation.
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28 Mar 2022
Drop everything and read this paper: nber.org/system/files/workin…
The bottom line: Managers with MBAs are the best at taking money from workers and not much else.
The findings are damning of business schools, business education, & business "optimizing" practices.
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30 Jan 2022
StatsCan has a podcast, how cool is that? Even a cool name (Eh Sayers). First episode is on inflation. statcan.gc.ca/en/sc/podcasts…
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7 Jan 2022
Really wish someone else was tracking this. Seems important when we're keeping 2 million Ontarians in the 5-19 age group from going to school.
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5 Jan 2022
The evidence is clear that virtual schooling cannot support student learning in the same way as in-person learning. Canadian governments should take this into account, write @ClareHalloran, @RebeccaSJack, @jcokun1 & @ProfEmilyOster. bit.ly/3pStB1v #cdnpoli #EconTwitter
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3 Jan 2022
I don’t see how the decision to close schools will make the marginal difference around what happens with hospitalizations. Is Ont expecting to slow the rate of infection so that anyone who becomes hospitalized will do so over a longer spread? I don't think this will work.
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3 Jan 2022
I don’t get the decision by Ontario last week to keep open schools and then close them a few days later – the case-count trajectory situation was predictable – nothing has changed to affect this prediction.
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14 Oct 2021
The in-game performance of professional soccer players who had a recent COVID-19 infection, drops by 6%.
Performance is still 5% lower 6 months later with notable negative spillovers on team performance.
Cool paper by @schmal_w & @jjreade:
dice.hhu.de/fileadmin/redakt…
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11 Oct 2021
Congratulations to David Card, my advisor, mentor, and friend, for receiving the Nobel Prize today.
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15 Sep 2021
A podcast about my ongoing research about tutoring and computer assisted learning: teaforteaching.com/205-tutor…
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26 May 2021
Over a year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, student learning loss remains a pressing policy concern, writes @POreopoulos. High-dosage tutoring presents a promising solution: bit.ly/2So18SZ #Education
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16 Dec 2020
A well-thought-out proposal for scaling tutoring at a national level. Momentum is growing...
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