Curriculum Vitae(Last updated: May 2012)Click here for a complete version in pdf format. |
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Current position
| 2009 – present |
Assistant professor Department of Economics Université du Québec à Montréal |
Affiliations
| 2009 – present |
Member Centre interuniversitaire sur le risque, les politiques économiques et l'emploi (CIRPÉE) |
| 2009 – present |
Researcher CIRANO |
Academic Background
| 2007 | Ph.D., Economics, Princeton
University, Princeton, New Jersey
Fields: Labour economics, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics Dissertation Title: “It’s about Time. Three Essays on Time Use, Weather, and Well-Being” Committee: Alan B. Krueger, Henry S. Farber, Jesse Rothstein, Cecilia Rouse |
| 2007 | M.A., Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey |
| 2001 | M.Sc., Economics, Université de
Montréal, Montreal, Quebec
Thesis Title: “Comparison between Open Auctions and Closed Auctions: Theoretical Contributions and Experiments” (in French) Advisor: Jacques Robert |
| 2000 | B.Sc., Economics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec |
Publications
Connolly, Marie (forthcoming), “Some Like It Mild and Not Too Wet: The Influence of Weather on Subjective Well-Being,” Journal of Happiness Studies, available at www.springerlink.com, DOI 10.1007/s10902-012-9338-2. Previous version available as Cirpée Working paper No. 11-16, July 2011.
Connolly, Marie (2008), “Here Comes the Rain Again: Weather and the Intertemporal Substitution of Leisure,” Journal of Labor Economics 26 (1): 73–100.
Connolly, Marie and Alan B. Krueger (2007), “Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music,” The Milken Institute Review 9 (3): 50–66.
Connolly, Marie and Alan B. Krueger (2006), “Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music,” in Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, V. Ginsburgh and D. Throsby, eds., Elsevier North-Holland, Chapter 20: 667–719 (also available as Industrial Relations Section Working Paper No. 499 and NBER Working Paper No. 11,282).
Connolly, Marie, Claude Montmarquette, and Ali Béjaoui (2004), “Modèles économétriques de remboursement de prêts étudiants au Canada,” L’Actualité économique 80 (2–3): 305–339. English version available as Connolly, Marie, Claude Montmarquette, and Ali Béjaoui (2003), “Econometric Models of Student Loan Repayment in Canada,” CIRANO Working Paper No. 2003s-68.
Working Papers
Brodeur, Abel and Marie Connolly (2012), “Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec’s Family Policies,” Cirpée Working Paper No. 12-23, May 2012 and Paris School of Economics Working Paper No. 2012-24, May 2012.
Boudarbat, Brahim and Marie Connolly (2012), “The Gender Wage Gap among Recent Postsecondary Graduates in Canada: A Distributional Approach.” Revise and resubmit at the Canadian Journal of Economics.
Connolly, Marie and Alan B. Krueger (2011), “The Secondary Market for Concert Tickets: Theory and Evidence.”
Connolly, Marie (2007), “A Look at the U.S. Welfare Reform through Time-Use Surveys,” Department of Economics, Princeton University.
Connolly, Marie (2000), “Comparison between Open Auctions and Closed Auctions: Theoretical Contributions and Experiments,” Master’s thesis (in French), Department of Economics, Université de Montréal.
Professional Experience
| 2009 – present | Assistant Professor Department of Economics, UQAM |
Montreal, Quebec |
| 2007 – 2009 | Associate Cornerstone Research, Inc. |
New York, New York |
| 2004 – 2007 | Research Assistant for Professor Alan B.
Krueger Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University |
Princeton, New Jersey |
| Summer 2003 | Short-term Consultant World Bank, Education Section, Human Development Network |
Washington, D.C. |
| 2001 – 2002 | Intern, sponsored by the Canadian government and York
University’s Institute for Leadership Development United Nations Development Programme, Capacity Building for Local Governance Programme |
Pretoria, Afrique du Sud |
| 1999 – 2001 | Research Assistant and Research Professional Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO) |
Montreal, Quebec |
Grants
| 2010 – 2014 | Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC): $C 430,452 Support to research teams programme (Principal Investigator: Pierre Lefebvre) “Human capital accumulation process dynamics for children and youth, results, inequalities and contributions from public policies” |
| 2010 – 2013 | Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC): $C 39,577 Establishment of new professors-researchers programme (Single Investigator) “Time-use data in economics: An innovative tool to study public policies and the well-being of individuals” |
| 2009 – 2010 |
Programme
d’aide financière
à la recherche et à la création (PAFARC): $C 8,500
Startup grant from UQAM “Time-use data in economics: An innovative tool to study public policies and the well-being of individuals” |
Honours and Awards
| 2007 | Prize L’Actualité économique, Société canadienne de science économique, given every three years to best article in the journal L’Actualité économique written by a student |
| 2006 | Research Grant, Canadian Studies at Princeton University |
| 2003 – 2007 | Graduate School Summer Fellowships, Princeton University |
| 2002 – 2007 | Full tuition and doctoral scholarship, Graduate School, Princeton University |
| 2002 – 2006 | Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Quebec (FCAR) |
| 2002 – 2006 | Doctoral Fellowship, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| 2000 | Dean’s List of Honours, Arts and Sciences Faculty, Université de Montréal |
| 2000 | Prize for the best overall econometrics grades, Foundation Lise Salvas |
| 2000 | Excellence grants, BCE Emergis and Standard Life |
| 2000 | Grant to support Master’s Thesis writing, Foundation Berthelet Aubin |
| 2000 | Master’s fellowship, Government of Quebec (FCAR) |
| 2000 | Excellence Master’s grant, Department of Economics, Université de Montréal |
| 1998 – 1999 | Excellence grants to support women in sciences, Université de Montréal |
| 1998 | Dean’s scholarship, Arts and Sciences Faculty, Université de Montréal |
| 1997 and 2000 | Prizes for the best overall grades and research in microeconomics, Foundation Maurice Bouchard |
| 1996 | Excellence admissions grant, Economics Department, Université de Montréal |
| 1996 | Governor General’s Academic Medal, Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, Montreal |
Conference Participation and Seminar Presentations
| 2012 |
Société canadienne de science économique Annual Meeting Paper presentation in session entitled “Education Economics” May 9–11, 2012, Mt. Tremblant, QC, Canada |
| 2011 |
Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings Paper presentation in session entitled “Economics of Books and Music” November 19–21, 2011, Washington, D.C., USA |
| 2011 |
11th annual conference Journées du Cirpée Paper presentation in session entitled “Microeconomics I” October 7–8, 2011, Bécancour, QC, Canada |
| 2011 |
Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting Paper presentation in session entitled “Labour: Gender Issues” June 3–5, 2011, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| 2011 |
Société canadienne de science économique Annual Meeting Paper presentation in session entitled “Labour Economics I” May 11–13, 2011, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada |
| 2011 |
Guest Seminar, University of Ottawa Presentation of “The Gender Wage Gap Among Recent Postsecondary Graduates in Canada” April 8, 2011, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| 2011 |
American Economic Association Annual Meeting
Discussant of paper entitled “Rock and Roll Bands, (In)complete Contracts and Creativity,” by Cédric Ceulemans, Victor Ginsburgh and Patrick Legros, in session “Economics of the Arts,” January 6–9, 2011, Denver, CO |
| 2010 |
10th annual conference Journées du Cirpée Paper presentation in session entitled “Applied microeconomics” October 1–2, 2010, Ste-Adèle, QC, Canada |
| 2010 |
Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting Paper presentation in session entitled “PEF/CSLS V: Perspectives on Happiness in Canada and the United States” May 28–30, 2010, Quebec, QC, Canada |
| 2010 |
Société canadienne de science économique Annual Meeting Paper presentation in session entitled “Measures of inequality I” May 12–14, 2010, Lac-Beauport, QC, Canada |
| 2009 |
4th Economics of Culture Days: New Research in Cultural Economics Paper presentation of “Evidence on the Secondary Market for Concert Tickets” Dec. 3, 2009, Paris, France (colloquium organized by the Department of prospective studies and statistics of the French Ministry of Culture and communication) |
| 2008 |
First Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference
Discussant of paper entitled “The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale” by Alan Sorensen and Philip Leslie Nov. 6–7, 2008, Washington, D.C. |
| 2008 | Canadian Economics
Association Annual Meeting Paper presentation in session entitled “Empirical Industrial Organization” June 6–8, 2008, Vancouver, Canada |
| 2007 |
IZA, Institute for the Study of Labor Paper presentation and participation in IZA Topic Week on Nonmarket Time in Economics May 30–June 2, 2007, Bonn, Germany |
| 2005 – 2008 |
Université du Québec à Montréal, McGill University, Cornell University,
Case Western Reserve
University, Princeton University, Université de Montréal, Industry
Canada, Cornerstone Research, CRA International Seminars |
| 2006 |
American Economic Association Annual Meeting
Paper presentation in sessions entitled “The Internet’s Impact on the Sale of Entertainment Products” and “On Time: Early Results from the American Time Use Survey” Jan. 6–8, 2006, Boston, Mass. |
| 2005 |
American Time Use Survey Early Results Conference Paper presentation, University of Maryland, Maryland Population Research Center Dec. 8–9, 2005, Bethesda, Md. |
Professional Memberships
American Economic Association, Canadian Economic Association,
Society of Labor Economists, Société canadienne de science économique, European Economic Association
Other Activities
Member of the Recruiting committee, UQAM, 2010 – 2012
Member of the Undergraduate program committee, UQAM, 2009 – 2012
President of the Graduate Economics Club, Princeton University, 2004 – 2006
Referee for American Economic Review (x2), Journal of Labor Economics (x2), Economic Letters, Canadian Journal of Economics (x2), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (x2), Social Forces, Journal of Media Economics (x3), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Economic Journal : Applied Economics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Law and Economics, Annals of Economics and Statistics, Managerial and Decision Economics (x1), Canadian Public Policy (x1), Economica (x1).