Friday, November 6, 2026

08h00-08h30 Registration and Coffee

8h30-10h30 Session 1: Political Economy 1

Tom Groll (Columbia) “Distributive Politics, Representation, and Redistricting” (with Sharyn O’Halloran)
• Discussant: Joseph McMurray (Brigham Young)

Justin Fox (WUST) “Legislator Prerogative” (with Daniel Gibbs)
• Discussant: Dan McGee (UoT)

Magesan Arvind (Calgary) “Threshold Rules and Political Participation: Evidence from UK Petitions” (with Dimitri Migrow)
• Discussant: Caroline Le Pennec

10h30-11:00 Break (Coffee)

11h00-12h20 Session 2: Inequality and Donations

David Price (UoT) “Lifecycle Origins of Inequality” (with Luigi Pistaferri and Fatih Guvenen)
• Discussant: Zhexum Mo (Laval)

Ross Hickey (UBC Okanagan) “Directed Search and The Distribution of Donations” (with Jonhatan Rousborough)
• Discussant: Pierre-Edouard Collignon (Laval)

12h20-13h30 Lunch

13h30-14h50 Session 3: Discrimination

Jiawei Lyu (UoT) “The Costs of Affirmative Action: Evidence from a Male-Favoring Quota”
• Discussant: Sam Guyetvay (UQAM)

Peter Matthews (Middlebury) “Do racial attitudes undermine support for the U.S. social safety net?” (with Jeffrey Carpenter, Jakina Debnam Guzman, and Erin Wolcott)
• Discussant: Steven Lehrer (Queen’s University)

14h50-15h20 Break (Coffee)

15h20-16h40 Session 4: Political Economy 2

Dario Toman (UoT) “Partisan Elections, Competition, and Candidate Selection: Evidence from School Boards”
• Discussant: Nicolas Ajzenman (McGill University)

Nils-Petter Lagerlof (York) “Population Density and Public Transit Funding: Political Equilibrium and Social Optimum”
• Discussant: Anke Kessler (Simon Fraser)

16h40-17h00 Break (Coffee)

17h00-17h50 Invited Plenary Lecture: Ernesto Dal Bò (UC Berkely-Hass)

“Public Corporate Finance: Theory and Historical Applications”

19h00- 22h Dinner

Saturday, November 7, 2026

08h30-09h00 Registration and Coffee

9h00-11h00 Session 5: Family and Health Economics

Johanna Torres (U of Minnesota) Chain “Family Care as Informal Insurance: Medicaid, Marriage, and Widowhood in Old Age”
• Discussant: Philippe De Donder (Toulouse School of Economics)

Isabelle Maripier (Laval) “Income, Nonparental Care, and Child Safety: Evidence from a Child Care Subsidy Reform” (with Alex Hoagland and Christopher Mills)
• Discussant: Sébastien Montpetit (UoT)

Francisco Bullano (University of Minnesota) “Health, families and private and public health insurance”
• Discussant: Nicholas Lawson (Dalhousie)

11h00-11h20 Break (Coffee)

11h20-12h40 Session 6: Political Economy 3

Michael Smart (University of Toronto) “A Nation at a Discount: News, Bond Prices, and Canadian Confederation, 1864-67”
• Discussant: Ross Hickey (UBC Okanagan)

Arthur Silve (Laval) “The end of slavery in Brazil: Escape and resistance on the road to freedom” (with François Seyler)
• Discussant: Nippe Lagerlof (York)

12h40-13h40 Lunch

13h40-14h30 Invited Plenary Lecture Pierre Boyer (École Polytechnique-CREST)

“How to design politically feasible and welfare-improving tax reforms?”

14h30-14h50 Break (Coffee)

14h50-16h50 Session 7: Public policies

Ian Sapollnik (MIT) “Tax Loss Carrybacks: Targeting, Take-up, and Effects on Employer Firms” (with Dustin Swonder)
• Discussant: Till Gross (Carleton)

Nicholas Li (UoT) “Evaluating policies to improve food affordability, nutrition, and food security in remote communities in Northern Canada”
• Discussant: Jonathan Holmes (Ottawa)

Nicholas Lawson “Passing the Buck(s): International Emission-Reduction Subsidies Versus Climate Clubs”
• Discussant: Ghina Abdul Baki (University of Ottawa)