Past Conferences

CLEF organizes the Labour and Education sessions at the annual Meetings of the Canadian Economic Association (CEA). Past conference programs are here:

Toronto 2024; Winnipeg 2023; Ottawa 2022; Vancouver 2021; Toronto, 2020; Banff, 2019;  Montreal, 2018;  Antigonish, 2017;  Ottawa, 2016.

We also organize a Keynote Lecture in Labour Economics held at the CEA conference. 

2024. Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) presented “Personalized Support at Scale.” (slides)

2023. Kevin Lang (Boston University) presented “How Credible is the Credibility Revolution?”

2022. Francine Blau (Cornell University) presented “Labor Force Selection and the Gender Wage Gap.” (virtual conference)

2021Lisa Khan (University of Rochester) presented her work on technological change and recessions. (virtual conference)

2019. Kelly Bedard (UC-Santa Barbara) presented “Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers.”

2018Jennifer Hunt (Rutgers University) presented her work on immigration and innovation.

2017Hilary Hoynes (University of California, Berkeley) presented “Long Run Effects of the Social Safety Net.”

2016. Christopher Taber (University of Wisconsin-Madison) presented “Topic Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables.”