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Gregory C. Mason

Research and teaching in public-policy

  • Publications
    • Articles (academic)
    • Chapters in Books
    • Current Research and Working Papers
    • Book Reviews
    • Methodology Notes
    • Technical Reports & Monographs
    • Workshops & Presentations
  • Guiding the Invisible Hand
  • Teaching
  • ISER
  • Economic Analytics
    • Economic Analytics Using Computer Based Methods
  • Mincome
  • PRA INC.

Current Research and Working Papers

Current Working Papers

“Evaluating the basic income using experiments” Download

“Urban Reserve – Rationale and Development?” Download

“The intangible costs of workplace accidents”  Download

“Using contingent valuation to measure the economic costs of accidents” Download

Miscellaneous Papers

2011 “Clustered evaluations” Download

2010 (a) “A framework for measuring EMR benefits in primary and chronic disease management” Download

(b) “Health information technology as an intervention” Download

(c) “Small scale experiments: Options for employment programming”Download

2007 (a)  “Welfare wall, reservation wages and labour force attachment”Download

____   (b)  “Applying choice experiments to social policy design”Download

1989 “The Demographic Structure of Prairie Canada: a Micro Analysis” (with W. Simpson) for the Review of Demography and its Implications for Social and Economic Policy, Canada.

1986 (a) “Entrepreneurship and Demography” (with L. Mercer), University of Manitoba Research Ltd.

____   (b) “Longitudinal Designs for Housing Research,” I.S.E.R., May, for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

1985 (a) “The French Language Debate in Manitoba: Evidence from the Polls,” (Presented to the Canadian Association for Applied Social Research, Annual Meeting, Montreal).

____   (b) “Home Ownership and Low Income Families: Evidence from the MINCOME Experimental Data,” (Presented to the Canadian Economics Association, Annual Meetings, Montreal).

____   (c) “Manitoba Manufacturing, 1961 – 1984,” Prepared for the Department of Industry, Trade and Technology (Government of Manitoba), 73pp.

____   (d) “Political Attitudes of Western Canadians,” I.S.E.R. Profile on the West.

1984 (a) “Income, Expectations and Happiness: Some Preliminary Observations from the 1984 Winnipeg Area Study.”

____   (b) “The Manitoba Economy in 1985,” (Presented to the Western Business Outlook Conference, Conference Board of Canada, and to the Manitoba Economic, Regional and Industry Subcommittee of Cabinet).

____   (c) “Creative Municipal Management: Strategic Planning and Forecasting,” (Presented to the Manitoba Association of Urban Municipalities, Annual Meeting).

____   (d) “New Technology: What Strategy for the Prairies?,” (Presented to a conference of Labour Markets and the New Technology, Canadian Plains Research Institute).

____   (e) “Attitudes of the Manitoba Population Towards Education,” I.S.E.R. Profile on Manitoba.

____   (f) “Political Preferences of the Manitoba Population,” I.S.E.R. Profile on Manitoba.

____   (e) “The 1984 Election: A Retrospective Poll,” I.S.E.R. Profile on Manitoba.

____   (f) “Developments in Analyzing Longitudinal Data: A case study of the Mincome Data,” (Presented to the annual meeting of the Western Association of Sociology and Anthropology, Regina, Feb 10, 1984).

1983 (a) “Energy and the Homeowner,” Prepared for Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa, 84 pp.

____   (b) “Attitudes of the Manitoba Population on Bilingualism Policies Proposed by the Provincial Government,” I.S.E.R. Profile on Manitoba.

____   (c) “Attitudes of the Manitoba Population on Nuclear Disarmament,” I.S.E.R. Profile on Manitoba.

____   (d) “Challenges to Education,” Prepared for the Department of Education, Government of Manitoba.

____   (e)  “Data Sources for Long Term Planning of the Winnipeg Economy,” Prepared for the Winnipeg Business Development Corporation.

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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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