The Vancouver School of Economics is proud to congratulate fourteen of our researchers on receiving the SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grants, totaling $1.64 million. These awards underscore the school’s commitment to advancing social sciences and humanities research. Below is an overview of the grants we received and the research they support.
Insight Grants
Designed to advance social sciences and humanities research, Insight Grants provide two-to-five-year support for research initiatives led by emerging and established scholars.
- Anderson, Siwan
Gender Norms
Funding: $243,600 - Gallipoli, Giovanni
Heterogeneity and the mechanics of inequality: consumption expenditures in the cross-section and across generations
Funding: $130,640 - Kasahara, Hiroyuki
Identification and Estimation of Markup, Factor-Neutral and Factor-Augmenting Productivities, and Production Function using Revenue Data and their Empirical Applications
Funding: $94,619 - Marmer, Vadim
UBC Collaborator: Schrimpf, Paul
Unknown group structures in econometric models
Funding: $95,964 - Norris, Sam
UBC Collaborator: Borwein, Sophie (Political Science)
The Effects of Alternative Criminal Justice Institutions
Funding: $221,627 - Riddell, W. Craig
Improving the Lives of Welfare Recipients: What Pays Off in the Long Run?
Funding: $65,338 - Siu, Henry
Occupations and life-cycle wage growth: Implications for cross-cohort and racial and ethnic inequality
Funding: $95,050 - Song, Kyungchul (Kevin)
A Systematic Study on Causal Inference Designs and Statistical Inference
Funding: $128,325 - Squires, Munir
UBC Co-applicant: Hwang, Sam
Intermarriage and Social Integration in the United States, 1790-1950
Funding: $226,305
Insight Development Grants
Designed for the formative research phase, Insight Development Grants support the development of new research questions, methods, theories, and concepts. They fund short‑term development initiatives that last up to two years.
- Gallipoli, Giovanni
The mechanics of consumption networks: theory and measurement
Funding: $53,350 - Gao, Ying
Incentives and Learning in Platforms with Recommendation
Funding: $53,400 - Jaccard, Torsten
Multinationals, Export Quality, and the Gains from Trade
Funding: $29,600 - Kasahara, Hiroyuki
The impact of Artificial Intelligence adoption on skill demands and productivity: evidence from newly linked administrative firm-level data in Canada
Funding: $60,840 - Saggio, Raffaele
UBC Co-applicant: Norris, Sam
The impact of reducing access to temporary foreign work visas in Canada
Funding: $70,185 - Schrimpf, Paul
UBC Co-applicant: Kasahara, Hiroyuki
Unintended Consequences of Cash Transfers on Opioid Overdoses and Effects of Expanding Contraceptive Access: Evidence from BC’s Free Contraceptives Program
Funding: $74,073
