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2026-01: The Economic Returns of Accessible and Affordable Child Care in Canada

Alisaleh Shariati

2025-08: Explaining Falling Residential Construction Productivity in Canada: Implications for Housing Affordability

Alisaleh Shariati

2025-07: The Dog That Didn't Bark: The Role of Natural Capital in Explaining the Rise and Fall of Global Productivity Growth

Christina Caron

2025-06: The Stylized Facts of the United States Manufacturing Productivity Slowdown

Ritisha Chittoor, Paul Pietraru and Andrew Sharpe

2025-05: Trends in Well-Being in Canada and the Provinces Through the Lens of the Index of Economic Well-Being

Andrew Sharpe and Paul Pietraru

2025-04: Can a Lack of Pro-Productivity Policies Explain the Secular Decline in Canada's Productivity Growth?

Andrew Sharpe and Stephen Tapp

2025-03: The Human Development Index in Canada: Ranking the Provinces and Territories Internationally

Alisaleh Shariati

2025-02: Explaining Canada's Falling Human Development Ranking Over Time: True Decline or Statistical Artifact?

Alisaleh Shariati

2025-01: Directions for Regional Economic Policy in the UK: Lessons from Canada

Tim Sargent

2024-09: Explaining the Post-2017 Fall in Productivity in the Transport Sector in Canada

Andrew Sharpe and Alisaleh Shariati

2024-08: Is There Still Momentum in the Atlantic Canada Economy?

Andrew Sharpe

2024-07: How Has the Recent Surge in Population Growth in Canada Affected Productivity

Tim Sargent

2024-06: Productivity In The Public Service: A Review Of The Literature

Peter Harrison and Andrew Sharpe

2024-05: 2024 B.C. Prosperity Index

Centre for the Study of Living Standards

2024-04: Decline and Fall: Trends in Family Formations and Fertility in Canada since 2001

Tim Sargent

2024-03: The Canadian Productivity Landscape: an Overview

Andrew Sharpe and Tim Sargent

2024-02: Addressing the Early Childhood Educators Labour Shortage in Canada: Challenges, Solutions, and Impacts

Alisaleh Shariati

2024-01: Closing the First Nations Education Gap in Canada: Assessing Progress and Estimating the Economic Benefits — An Update Using 2021 Census Data

Chris Haun

2023-11: A Detailed Analysis of Canada's Post-2000 Productivity Performance and Pandemic-Era Productivity Slowdown

Chris Haun

2023-10: A Detailed Analysis of Labour Productivity Development in New Brunswick, 1997-2022

Adriana Suuronen

2023-09: The Deteriorating Investment Performance of New Brunswick: The Achilles Heel of the Economy

Leonel Ordoñez

2023-08: An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of Broadband Internet on Productivity

Tim Sargent

2023-07: The Recovery of the New Brunswick Provincial Government Fiscal Situation

Adriana Suuronen

2023-06: Literature Review of the Economic Impacts of Broadband

Atakan Bakiskan and Sarah El Kaissi

2023-05: Valuing Data: Where Are We and Where Do We Go Next?

Tim Sargent and Laura Denniston

2023-04: The Contribution of Indigenous People to Future Labour Force Growth in Canada: An Update

Centre for the Study of Living Standards

2023-03: The Atlantic Canada Momentum Index

Andrew Sharpe

2023-02: An Assessment of First Nations Economic and Social Performance in New Brunswick

Pascal Morimanno

2023-01: Closing the First Nations Education Gap in Canada: Assessing Progress and Estimating the Economic Benefits — An Update

Centre for the Study of Living Standards

2022-07: The Potential for National Statistics to Transform Social Policy

Peter Hicks

2022-06: Firm-level Productivity Research in Canada: Current State and Future Directions

Andrew Sharpe

2022-05: Covid-19 Labour Market Developments in New Brunswick Compared to Canada

Vy Tran

2022-04: Public Infrastructure and Productivity: Updating the Canadian Case

Matan Sirota

2022-03: The Current State of Research on the Two-way Linkages between Productivity and Well-being

Andrew Sharpe and Shahrzad Mobasher Fard

2022-02: The Impact of Transport Infrastructure on Productivity in Canada

Paskynel Jacques-Arvisais and Simon Lapointe

2022-01: Economic Projections for Canada and the Provinces, 2019-2038

Abrar Arif

2021-09: A Strengthening Position at the Bargaining Table? Understanding the Productivity-Median Wage Gap in Canada, 1976-2019

James Ashwell

2021-08: The Index of Economic Well-being for New Brunswick, 1981-2019

Andrew Sharpe

2021-07: North Versus South: Income Disparities in New Brunswick, 2000-2019

Nettie Bonsall

2021-06: Richer and Fairer: New Brunswick Income Trends, 1976-2019

Nettie Bonsall

2021-05: Turning the Tide: Demographic Developments in New Brunswick, 1951-2020

Nettie Bonsall

2021-04: Should Economics Play a Greater Role in the Adjudication of Human Rights Claims? The Examples of Injury to Dignity and the Duty to Accommodate

David Lewis and Ian Currie

2021-03: The Productivity Performance of New Brunswick Manufacturing: A Detailed Analysis, 1997-2019

Andrew Sharpe

2021-02: The World Bank Doing Business Index for Canada: An Assessment

Andrew Sharpe

2021-01: Impact of the Model Schools Literacy Project on Literacy and Fiscal Outcomes in First Nations in Canada

Simon Lapointe

2020-09: Literature Review on Best Practices in Government-Funded Services Supporting the Resettlement and Integration of Government-Assisted Refugees

Ghada Abid

2020-08: Innovation in New Brunswick

Kimberly Wong

2020-07: What Explains the Rising Profit Share in Canada?

Andrew Sharpe, Cristina Blanco Iglesias and Myeongwan Kim

2020-06: Holes in the Social Safety Net: Poverty, Inequality and Social Assistance in Canada

Inez Hillel

2020-05: The Index of Economic Well-being for Newfoundland and Labrador, 1981-2018

Kimberly Wong, Alex Stephens and Andrew Sharpe