Congratulations to Newly Tenured LED Faculty

The Laurier Economics Department congratulates Dr. Antonella Mancino, Dr. Stephen Snudden, and Dr. Nikolai Cook, who have been granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor effective July 1, 2026.

Dr. M. Antonella Mancino is an applied microeconomist specializing in labor economics, focusing on topics in inter-relationships between crime, education, and health. Her work studies how public policies, institutions, and labor market frictions shape outcomes for disadvantaged people, including those with criminal records, low-income families, and workers facing information barriers. Her research has been published in leading journals, including the European Economic Review and the International Economic Review, and her current work includes projects on youth crime, mental health, opioid policy, and skill certification. Her scholarship has been supported by multiple SSHRC grants, including two Insight Development Grants as principal investigator. She has taught econometrics at the undergraduate and graduate levels, mentoring students, and has been Director of the Laurier Centre for Research on Economic Research and Policy Analysis.

Dr. Stephen Snudden’s research bridges macroeconomic theory and practical policy. His work on global monetary and fiscal policy informs government responses to economic crises, fiscal pressures, and commodity shocks. He also studies household wealth inequality, with a focus on how debt and asset returns shape outcomes across families. Dr. Snudden has modernized how economists predict and model the macroeconomy by developing high-frequency techniques that use daily data more efficiently; his methods have directly influenced practices at institutions like the Bank of Canada. He holds two competitive grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, with publications in leading journals including the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Inquiry, and the International Journal of Forecasting. Dr. Snudden is an engaged instructor and mentor who has supervised more than 20 graduate student projects and co-published peer-reviewed papers with Master's and PhD students.

Dr. Nikolai Cook’s research addresses the impacts of climate change and how research itself is conducted. He uses both existing datasets and conducts experiments to answer questions about how increasing temperatures and air pollution affect worker productivity. His most recent work develops ways to determine just how credible economics and social science research is. His collaborations and research are truly wide-reaching, with over 350 coauthors and work published in top journals such as Nature and PNAS, and within economics journals the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. He is also active in the research community, serving in leadership roles of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economists Association and is part of Laurier’s Strategic Research Vision 2027–2036 Working Group.

Congratulations to all on this important milestone, and we look forward to seeing your careers progress at Laurier in the years to come.

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