@StabileMark

Professor of Economics, INSEAD, Founding Director, @SPPG_UofT, CEPR Research Fellow

 Paris, France
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Joined January 2014
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The truth about Canada’s low-income benefits: They work fw.to/antjjoa Oped in the Globe on my work w/ @drlaurenjones @kevinmilligan
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My research with @DrLaurenJones and @kevinmilligan showing how families spend the National Child Benefit. Wisely! martinprosperity.org/content…
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Expenditures by middle class households have increased by between 0.5 and 1 percent a year between 1997 and 2009.… wp.me/p1Dhpm-5u

Expenditures by middle class households have increased by between 0.5 and 1 percent a year between...

After having examined how the size of the middle class has changed in Canada, Lauren Jones and I are looking at how expenditures among middle class families have changed over time. The graphs below…

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The size of the middle class may be shrinking in the U.S., but not in Canada wp.me/p1Dhpm-57

The size of the middle class may be shrinking in the U.S., but not in Canada

Lauren Jones and I have been looking at what has happened to the size of the middle class in Canada. The New York Times recently documented that the American middle class is shrinking. Defined as t…

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Part of my @MartinProsperiT interview with George Packer about his great book "The Unwinding" youtu.be/QPO9bDaWmUU
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Congrats to @PPGReview editors @lindsaydawnn & @mteopirri on the newest edition of the PPGR. ppgreview.ca/2014/12/08/volu…
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Foolish, despotic or brilliant? "In France, a Move to Limit Off-the-Clock Work Emails" nyti.ms/1kQFMBI
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@BCSurgeons When the UK had similar issues (even with their private system) they invested heavily in the public system to resolve them.
Check out my op-ed in today's Globe and Mail on "Why a two-tiered system won't solve our health care woes" fw.to/mpRzO8B
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Star@SPPG_UofT grad @docdanielle schools U.S. Senator on public health care cbc.ca/asithappens/features/…
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Prescription admin data confirm high and rising rates of ADHD diagnosis found in surveys nyti.ms/1quMphl

Report Says Medication Use Is Rising for Adults With Attention Disorder (Published 2014)

Some experts said the report indicated that the disorder is being diagnosed and treated with medication in children far too often, and that steeply rising diagnoses among adults might portend similar...

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Policies to tackle inequality should focus on the bottom 20 percent. "A Top-Heavy Focus on Income Inequality" nyti.ms/1ffUpdd

A Top-Heavy Focus on Income Inequality (Published 2014)

Outrage at the very wealthy may be impeding a national discussion of how to raise the living standards of the bottom 20 percent, an economist writes.

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Does the relationship between inequality and growth follow an inverted U shape? "Just Right Inequality" nyti.ms/1doTjiz
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Why don't we learn more from failure? Check out this conference co-chaired by @SPPG_UofT alumni @docdanielle emailcc.com/cv/6c2a92375e941…
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Are performance incentives for schools encouraging ADHD diagnosis? " Expand Pre-K, Not A.D.H.D." nyti.ms/1fM7MCq
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Training GPs to better understand ADHD will help many kids. "Doctors Train to Spot Signs of A.D.H.D." nyti.ms/1dK1OoZ

Doctors Train to Spot Signs of A.D.H.D. in Children (Published 2014)

Some psychiatrists are teaching pediatricians how to evaulate children’s mental health issues like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which some doctors diagnose despite having little training.

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A good first step. Next we should consider linking payment to guidelines. "Canadian doctors urged to limit testing" fw.to/q5A4TVg
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If the top tax rate were 50% and all income was taxed equally, Mankiw's argument would have more public support. nyti.ms/1gEtvzt

Yes, the Wealthy Can Be Deserving (Published 2014)

A fact that’s lost in the inequality debate: The top 1 percent of wage earners often accomplish extraordinary things, and at great risk.

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Medication: The smart-pill oversell nature.com/news/medication-t… This article in Nature highlights some of my research.@SPPG_UofT @katherinesharpe
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