Congratulations to LED Faculty on their Successful SSHRC Grant Applications

July 23, 2026
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The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada recently announced the recipients of their grant competitions for 2025, with eight Laurier Economics Department faculty being successful in their funding applications as applicants, co-applicants, or collaborators.

Insight Grants:

  • Juan Morales (applicant) with collaborator Daniel Ershov (University College London)
    • Social media and the reach of news: Evidence from Twitter's transition to X

Insight Development Grants:

  • Nikolai Cook
    • Artificial Intelligence for Economics Meta-Analysis and Meta-Science
  • Antonella Mancino, with collaborators Leonardo Morales and Diego F. Salazar (National University of Singapore)
    • “Worker Search Responses to Application Feedback and AI-Driven Skill Requirements”
  • Brian McCaig, with collaborators Alexandros Fakos (Instituto tecnologico autonomo de Mexico), Cynthia Kinnan (Tufts University) and Margaret McMillan (Tufts University)
    • Differential minimum wages and aggregate productivity: Evidence from Vietnam
  • Juan Morales, with collaborator Jaime Marques-Pereira (Lancaster University)
    • Podcasts, Public Discourse, and Influence
  • Zijian Wang (applicant) and Edda Claus (co-applicant)
    • Social Isolation and the Impact on the Macroeconomy
  • Monica Jain (co- applicant) with Eric Wilson (applicant, WLU Finance area),
    • Expectation Formation Across Horizons: Are Long-Term Forecasts the Aggregation of Short-Term Forecasts?
  • Noah Spencer (collaborator), with David MacDonald, UBC (applicant) , and collaborators William Arbour, (Université de Montréal), Jeffrey Hicks (University of Toronto), and Taylor Wright (Brock University)
    • Evaluating Effective Pathways out of the Canadian Criminal Justice System

We look forward to seeing the results of the research!

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