Kingston, Canada – August 2026 – The John Deutsch Institute (JDI) has released five new JDI Policy Insight papers this month, each written by a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Queen’s University. The papers span immigration, consumer credit, platform regulation, AI governance, and the relationship between work and health.

This month’s papers include:

• Fairness in AI-Assisted Decisions: Five Insights for Policymakers (Tanvir Ahmed Khan, JDI Policy Insight 26-0802) — argues that asking whether an algorithm is fair is the wrong question when human judgment and institutional rules sit between the model output and the final decision.
• Employment and Health: Mechanisms Beyond the Empirical Studies (Jin Young Yoon, JDI Policy Insight 26-0801) — works through the channels connecting work and health, and argues that labour market policy should be evaluated partly as health policy.
• Understanding How Immigration Impacts the Economy (Luke Rawling, JDI Policy Paper 26-0703) — surveys decades of research on how immigration affects wages and employment, and argues that the effects depend on local conditions and firm-level responses rather than on any single universal relationship.
• Perceptions Versus Realities in the Credit Card Market (Chi Danh Dao, JDI Policy Insight 26-0702) — tests three widely held assumptions about Canadian credit cards, and finds each of them harder to defend than the public debate suggests.
• Making Platforms Pay for News: Policy Design and Outcomes (Seth Kushniryk, JDI Policy Insight 26-0701) — compares how Australia, the European Union, and Canada have each tried to make tech platforms pay publishers for news, and what happened when one platform decided not to.

Together, the three papers reflect the range of the JDI Insight Series: close, evidence-based looks at policy questions that affect Canadians directly, written by the next generation of Queen’s economists. All three are available on the JDI website at jdi.queensu.ca.