Here are the events organized by the Research Group on Human Capital.
Montreal Replication Games 2025
In collaboration with the Institute for Replication, the Research Group on Human Capital is organizing the 2025 Montreal Replication Games. The Games will take place at UQAM on May 28, 2025, from 9am to 4:30pm, with an option to participate remotely via Zoom. For more information on the Games, go to the Institute for Replication’s webpage. This is right before the CEA Annual Meetings, which will take place May 29-31, 2025, at UQAM!
We are looking for researchers, post-docs, and PhD students interested in a one-day replication challenge. Participants will be granted co-authorship on a meta-paper combining the replications and will have the opportunity to publish their work. Participants will be matched based on field, and a study from a leading economics journal will be assigned to each team based on interests.
Celebration – Ten years, it’s something to celebrate!
The Research Group on Human Capital is celebrating its tenth anniversary! In a combo of festivities, the Research Chair in Intergenerational Economics (CREEi) and the GRCH are jointly celebrating their tenth anniversary, as well as the renewal of the CREEi for the next five years. Come join Raquel Fonseca and Marie Connolly, co-chairs of the CREEi, for a discussion panel (in French) moderated by Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin of CIRANO on research and public policies featuring Catherine Haeck (ESG UQAM), Marie-Louise Leroux (ESG UQAM) and Pierre-Carl Michaud (HEC Montréal). The panel will be followed by a cocktail where you will be able to catch up with those who contributed to the activities of the GRCH and CREEi over the past ten years.
The event will take place at the Université du Québec à Montréal, building Sherbrooke, 200 rue Sherbrooke Ouest (Place-des-Arts metro station), room SH-4800, from 4pm to 7pm.
For more details, follow this link.
Montreal Replication Games 2023
In collaboration with the Institute for Replication, the Research Group on Human Capital is organizing the 2023 Montreal Replication Games. The Games will take place at UQAM on June 14, 2023, from 8:30am to 4pm, with an option to participate remotely via Zoom. For more information on the Games, go to the Institute for Replication’s webpage.
We are looking for researchers, post-docs, and PhD students interested in a one-day replication challenge. Participants will be granted co-authorship on a meta-paper combining the replications and will have the opportunity to publish their work. Participants will be matched based on field, and a study from a leading economics or political science journal will be assigned to each team based on interes
Workshop April 14, 2023
Education and Intergenerational Mobility
The Research Group on Human Capital will hold its sixth workshop in collaboration with the Observatory for children’s education and health (OPES) on Friday, April 14, 2023, at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Seven academic researchers from the fields of Economics and Psychology will present recent work. The presentations primarily feature empirical research using microeconometric models, with a particular emphasis on questions of identification of causal effects. The workshop is intended to promote discussion and exchanges on the theme of intergenerational mobility and its association with education. The workshop is open not only to academics (professors, researchers, graduate students), but also to administrators and policymakers as well as to officials from governmental institutions with an interest in the topic.
The workshop will take place at the University of Quebec in Montreal, building Président-Kennedy, 201 Président-Kennedy Avenue (Place-des-Arts metro station), room PK-1140, from 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM.
For the schedule and more information, click here.
Workshop April 5, 2019
Using Administrative Data to Inform Public Policy
The Research Group on Human Capital will hold its fifth workshop on Friday, April 5, 2019, at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Six academic researchers from the fields of Economics and Sociology will present recent work. The presentations primarily featured empirical research using microeconometric models, with a particular emphasis on questions of identification of causal effects. The workshop is intended to promote discussion and exchanges on the theme of the use of administrative data to inform public policy, broadly speaking, with a special interest in the role of public policies and interventions and their potential to equalize opportunities. Topics covered in this workshop include replicability, access and use of microdata, public policies, and social inequalities. The workshop is open not only to academics (professors, researchers, graduate students), but also to administrators and policymakers as well as to officials from governmental institutions with an interest in the topic. The workshop will take place at the University of Quebec in Montreal, building Président-Kennedy, 201 Président-Kennedy Avenue (Place-des-Arts metro station), room PK-1140, from 9:25 AM to 4:30 PM. For the schedule and more information, click here.
November 8, 2018 Atelier (in French)
Survol des possibilités au Centre de données de recherche de l’UQAM-INRS
The Research Group on Human Capital invites you to its first atelier (in French), Thursday November 8, 2018, at the University of Québec in Montréal. Professors, students and Statistics Canada employees will be present during that day to inform you about research possibilities at the UQAM-INRS Research Data Centre. This centre is open to all researchers at UQAM and INRS. The atelier will take place at the University of Quebec in Montreal, building Président-Kennedy, 201 Président-Kennedy Avenue (Place-des-Arts metro station), room PK-1140, from 9 AM to 4 PM. For the schedule, click here.
Workshop October 6, 2017
Social Mobility and Intergenerational Transmissions
The Research Group on Human Capital held its fourth workshop on Friday, October 6, 2017, at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Six academic researchers from the fields of Economics and Sociology presented recent work. The presentations primarily featured empirical research using microeconometric models, with a particular emphasis on questions of identification of causal effects. The workshop is intended to promote discussion and exchanges on the theme of social mobility, broadly speaking, with a special interest in the role of public policies and interventions and their potential to equalize opportunities. Topics covered in this workshop include social mobility, intergenerational transmissions, social stratification, public policies, and social inequalities. The workshop is open not only to academics (professors, researchers, graduate students), but also to administrators and policymakers as well as to officials from governmental institutions with an interest in the topic. The workshop took place at the University of Quebec in Montreal, building Président-Kennedy, 201 Président-Kennedy Avenue (Place-des-Arts metro station), room PK-1140, from 9:25 AM to 4:30 PM. For the schedule and more information, click here.
Workshop April 15, 2016
Inequalities and Families: Childhood as a Homeland
“When I was a small boy… I speak of my early childhood, that is to say, of a vast region out of which all men emerge. Where do I come from? I come from my childhood. I come from my childhood as from a homeland.” – Antoine de St-Exupéry, Flight to Arras
The Research Group on Human Capital held its third workshop, which will be held on Friday, April 15, 2016, at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Eight academic researchers presented recent work. The presentations primarily featured empirical research using microeconometric models, with a particular emphasis on questions of identification of causal effects. The workshop is intended to promote discussion and exchanges on the theme of inequalities and the family, broadly speaking, with a special interest in the role of public policies and interventions and their potential to equalize opportunities. Childhood shapes future adults’ lives, for example through parental investments, education policies and social interactions. Topics covered in this workshop include human capital formation, intergenerational transmissions, well-being, family policies and social inequalities. The workshop is open not only to academics (professors, researchers, graduate students), but also to administrators and policymakers as well as to officials from governmental institutions with an interest in the topic. For the schedule and more information, click here.
Workshop April 17, 2015
Health and Well-Being as Human Capital: The Interactions between Parental Health, Children Well-Being and Life Outcomes
The Research Group on Human Capital held its second workshop on Friday, April 17, 2015, at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Seven academic researchers presented recent work. The presentations primarily featured empirical research using microeconometric models, with a particular emphasis on questions of identification of causal effects. The workshop was intended to promote discussion and exchanges on the theme of children and parental health and well-being. More specifically, the workshop focused on the formation of health and well-being in the family and investigate the contribution of different public policies to reducing health inequalities in children and their parents. The workshop welcomed not only academics (professors, researchers, grad students), but also administrators and policymakers as well as officials from governmental institutions interested in the well-being of children and their parents. For more information, click here.
Workshop October 3, 2014
Human Capital Development in Children and Youth: Perspectives, Policies and Interventions
The Research Group on Human Capital held its first workshop, which will be held on Friday, October 3, 2014, at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Six academic researchers presented recent work. The presentations primarily featured empirical research using microeconometric models, with a particular emphasis on questions of identification of causal effects. The workshop is intended to promote discussion and exchanges on the theme of human capital in children and youth, broadly speaking, with a special interest in the role of public policies and interventions. Topics covered will include family policies like maternity and paternity leaves, subsidized child care and types of child care, education issues, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, parental practices and parental labor supply. The target audience is academics (professors, researchers, grad students), staff from institutions like Statistics Canada’s Research Data Centres, policymakers from relevant governmental entities and administrators from relevant organizations with an interest in the topic. For more information, click here.