Publications | Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality

This collection highlights publications that advance the study of wealth and income inequality, offering insights into its causes, consequences, and policy implications. Through their work, our faculty affiliates contribute to a deeper understanding of economic disparities and inform discussions on fostering a more equitable society.

Behaviorally informed interventions can increase take-up of public employment services, but conversion remains challenging: insights from an RCT in British Columbia, Canada

BEHAVIOURAL PUBLIC POLICY | SEPTEMBER 2025

AUTHORS:

Christian H. Schimpf, Vince Hopkins, Priscilla B. Fisher, Jeff Dorion

Has Intergroup Contact Delivered?

ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS | AUGUST 2025

AUTHORS:

Matt Lowe

Probabilistic refunds increase beverage container recycling behaviour in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada

WASTE MANAGEMENT | AUGUST 2025

AUTHORS:

Jade Radke, Stella Argentopoulos, Elizabeth Dunn, Jiaying Zhao

Estimating Welfare Effects in a Non-Parametric Choice Model: The Case of School Vouchers

THE REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES | JULY 2025

AUTHORS:

Vishal Kamat, Samuel Norris

Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Returns

JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS | JULY 2025

AUTHORS:

Michael J Böhm, Khalil Esmkhani, Giovanni Gallipoli

Impact of alternative income assistance disbursement on substance use disorder treatment adherence among people who use drugs

THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ALCOHOL ABUSE | MAY 2025

AUTHORS:

Sukhpreet Klaire, JinCheol Choi, Allison Laing, Lindsey Richardson

Facilitating access to supervised smoking facilities: a qualitative study

HARM REDUCTION JOURNAL | APRIL 2025

AUTHORS:

Courteney Wettemann, Jeffrey Morgan, Tara Taylor, Ardina Boll, Scott Maxwell, Lindsey Richardson, Seonaid Nolan, Jenna van Draanen

Determining Patient Satisfaction, Nutrition, and Environmental Impacts of Inpatient Food at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Canada: A Prospective Cohort Study

DIETETICS | APRIL 2025

AUTHORS:

Annie Lalande, Stephanie Alexis, Penelope M. A. Brasher, Neha Gadhari, Jiaying Zhao, Andrea J. MacNeill

Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India

THE REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES | APRIL 2025

AUTHORS:

Arkadev Ghosh, Prerna Kundu, Matt Lowe, Gareth Nellis

Working groups, gender, and publication impact of Canada’s ecology and evolution faculty

FACETS | APRIL 2025

AUTHORS:

Qian Wei, Francois Lachapelle, Sylvia Fuller, Diane S. Srivastava

The Work/Care Interface and Parents’ Mid-Pandemic Mental Health: Inequalities at the Intersection of Gender and High-Risk Household Status

SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH | MARCH 2025

AUTHORS:

Sylvia Fuller, Manlin Cai, Donna Lero

The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing

ECONOMETRICA | MARCH 2025

AUTHORS:

Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Carl McPherson, Samuel Norris, Matthew Pecenco, Evan K. Rose, Yotam Shem-Tov, Jeffrey Weaver

Does Administrative Burden Influence Support for a Low-Income Child Care Supplement? Evidence from a Survey Experiment

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE | FEBRUARY 2025

AUTHORS:

Yang Yang, Vince Hopkins

Neural network learning for nonlinear economies

JOURNAL OF MONETARY ECONOMICS | JANUARY 2025

AUTHORS:

Julian Ashwin, Paul Beaudry, Martin Ellison

Wildlife’s contributions to people

NATURE REVIEWS BIODIVERSITY | JANUARY 2025

AUTHORS:

Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Colleen R. Miller, Laura E. Dee, Nathan J. Bennett, Alejandra Echeverri, Rachelle K. Gould, Edward J. Gregr, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Allison K. Leidner, Robin Naidoo, Kimberly A. Nicholas, Jiaying Zhao

Probabilistic rewards increase the use of reusable cups

RESOURCES, CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING | JANUARY 2025

AUTHORS:

Simon B. Sheppard, Stella Argentopoulos, Juliet Ware, Alex Swearingen, Jessica Winfield, Jade Radke, Jiaying Zhao

Effects of near-infrared radiation in ambient lighting on cognitive performance, emotion, and heart rate variability

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | DECEMBER 2024

AUTHORS:

Charlotte M. Roddick, Yuxiao Wang, Frances S. Chen, Dorukalp Durmus, Michael P. Royer, Jennifer A. Veitch, Jiaying Zhao, Yeon Soo Seo, Wenjing Cao, Lorne A. Whitehead

Commitment and investment distortions under limited liability

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY | NOVEMBER 2024

AUTHORS:

Jesse Perla, Carolin Pflueger, Michal Szkup

Using salience and availability to promote sustainable and healthy food choices in hospital cafeterias

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | NOVEMBER 2024

AUTHORS:

Karina Spoyalo, Nicole Viduka, Sarah-Jean Dixon, Andrea J. MacNeill, Jiaying Zhao

The Psychology of Poverty: Current and Future Directions

CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE | NOVEMBER 2024

AUTHORS:

Ye Rang Park, Yuen Ho, Kristina Hallez, Supreet Kaur, Mahesh Srinivasan, Jiaying Zhao