The Queen’s Applied Microeconomics Research Group conducts policy-focused academic research related to education, health, labour markets, crime, environment, inequality, charitable giving, and other fields. Through the group, the JDI supports graduate students and faculty whose research has the potential to shape public policy and social policy in Canada and abroad.
Over the past several years, the Queen’s Economics Department has brought together an active group of faculty with diverse research interests related to applied micro. This includes MD Moshi Ul Alam, Charles Beach, Robert Clark, Christopher Cotton, Weili Ding, Christopher Ferrall, Allan Gregory, Ian Keay, Steven Lehrer, Sitian Liu, Karen Ye, and Nahim Bin Zahur.