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Gregory C. Mason

Research and teaching in public-policy

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Methodology Notes

TechNotes

These are a selection of Technical Notes designed to assist students and researchers to understand common methodological issues.  Those currently published by PRA are designated; many of these are updated from technical notes originally published by the Institute for Social and Economic Research.

  • History of survey research Download
  • Why is 1000 enough? When is 1000 not enough? Download
  • Primer on polling Download
  • Focus groups Download
  • The in-depth interview Download
  • Strategic pricing using discrete choice models

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Latest Commentary

We need COVID measures we can trust

April 14, 2022 By Greg Mason

Winnipeg Free Press, April 8, 2022 It is curious that the only recent indicator I have seen that COVID-19 still stalks us is that Kyle Connor and Nate Schmidt of the Winnipeg Jets were placed in virus protocol last week. I do not know what Canada’s self-styled virologists in chief (Stefanson, Kenney, Ford et al) […]

Time to rethink vaccine strategy

April 7, 2022 By Greg Mason

December 13, 2021 Omicron is on the prowl. While early indications are that it does not cause serious illness, it is very infectious. The current approach to enforcing vaccination mandates will not probably get us to 90-per-cent-plus of everyone over six being fully vaccinated, which is probably the level needed manage this disease. (Read more…)

Time to examine treaty annuities and the land

April 7, 2022 By Greg Mason

Sheilla Jone, Wayne Helgason, and Gregory Mason Winnipeg Free Press, December 29, 2021 The November Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that the Crown violated Robinson Treaty terms by failing to increase annuity payments highlights the necessity of understanding the link between annuities and the land as a step toward reconciliation. Because without reconciliation, Canada risks […]

Online learning is here to stay

April 7, 2022 By Greg Mason

Winnipeg Free Press, August 9, 2021 Fill in the blank. Virtual learning is to live learning as phone sex is to ______ sex. There you have it … a question from the 2021 Mensa test.(Read full Article)

This is one curve we shouldn’t have flattened

April 7, 2022 By Greg Mason

Financial Post, February 9, 2022 I was fooling around with some GDP data the other day, as we economists are wont to do, and when I put it on a chart and drew a couple of trend lines, I was shocked by how setbacks we’ve suffered since 2000 seem to have become permanent scars on […]

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About

Specializing in economic policy, the basic annual income, health economics, and Indigenous economics, Greg joined the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba in 1974. Recently he has written on the economics of COVID, telemedicine, electronic health records, the modern annuity, and urban reserves.

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  • We need COVID measures we can trust
  • Time to rethink vaccine strategy
  • Time to examine treaty annuities and the land
  • Online learning is here to stay
  • This is one curve we shouldn’t have flattened

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