2024

CLEF is pleased to announce the winners  of the 2024 Best Young Researcher Paper Prize in labour economics, offered to the best paper written by a Canadian student or recent graduate.

  • First prize: Guangbin Hong (University of Toronto), “Two-Sided Sorting of Workers and Firms: Implications for Spatial Inequality and Welfare.”  
  • Runner ups: Sébastien Montpetit (Toulouse University), “A Welfare Analysis of Universal Childcare: Lessons From a Canadian Reform,” and Thomas Palmer (McMaster University), “Skill-Biased Technological Change, Training, and the College Wage Premium: A Quantitative Evaluation.”

Scientific Committee: Fabian Lange, Derek Messacar, Louis-Philippe Morin, and Mikal Skuterud.