David Benatia,Raphael Godefroy,Joshua Lewis
David Benatia
This article estimates population infection rates from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) across four Canadian provinces from late March to early May 2020. The analysis combines daily data on the number of conducted tests and diagnosed cas...
Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Household Finances in Quebec [0.03%]
加拿大魁北克省COVID-19大流行对家庭财务的早期影响
Bertrand Achou,David Boisclair,Philippe d&#x;Astous et al.
Bertrand Achou et al.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic surged in early March 2020, with unemployment reaching historic levels in April 2020. This study paints an early portrait of the pandemic's impact on the finances of households in Quebec, one...
Thibaut Duprey
Thibaut Duprey
I construct a new composite measure of systemic financial market stress for Canada. Compared with existing measures, it better captures the 1990 housing market correction and more accurately reflects the absence of diversification opportuni...
The Geography of Social Distancing in Canada: Evidence from Facebook [0.03%]
加拿大的社交疏离地理：来自Facebook的证据
Jeff Chan
Jeff Chan
This article analyzes which characteristics are correlated with mobility reductions during the COVID-19 pandemic, using census-division-level mobility data for Canada from Facebook. There is significant variation in the extent to which soci...
Do COVID-19 Policies Affect Mobility Behaviour? Evidence from 75 Canadian and American Cities [0.03%]
COVID-19政策会影响出行行为吗？来自75个加拿大和美国城市的证据
David A Armstrong nd,Matthew J Lebo,Jack Lucas
David A Armstrong nd
We construct a new measure of the aggressiveness of COVID-19 policies in 75 Canadian and American cities and estimate the effect of these policies on mobility patterns in each city. Using a new dataset of five municipal COVID-19 policy indi...
Canadian Electricity Markets during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Initial Assessment [0.03%]
加拿大电力市场新冠疫情初步评估报告
Andrew Leach,Nic Rivers,Blake Shaffer
Andrew Leach
This article examines the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on electricity markets across select Canadian provinces, using available data. Using high-frequency electricity data, we find electricity demand declined b...
Étienne Gaudette
Étienne Gaudette
Using data from the Drug Shortages Canada website, we ask whether the first months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic were associated with a significant increase in drug shortages in Canada. We find an increase of 147 short...
Stephen R G Jones,Fabian Lange,W Craig Riddell et al.
Stephen R G Jones et al.
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers of people in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, people who are "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or people who are...
COVID-19 and the Gender Employment Gap among Parents of Young Children [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的育儿负担加剧了年轻父母的性别就业差距问题
Yue Qian,Sylvia Fuller
Yue Qian
Working life in Canada has changed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Labour Force Survey data, we show that gender employment gaps among parents of young children widened considerably between February and May 2020, net of dif...
Radical Incrementalism and Trust in the Citizen: Income Security in Canada in the Time of COVID-19 [0.03%]
渐进中的变革与对民众的信任——加拿大步入新冠时期的收入保障政策
Jennifer Robson
Jennifer Robson
This article documents Canada's main public policy responses to promote income security among working-age adults during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis between March and early June 2020. This period of rapid policy change unf...