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Shari Eli

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • (416) 946-8825
  • University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 315 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, M5S 0A7, Canada

BIO

Shari Eli is an associate professor of economics at the University of Toronto and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her fields of research are economic history, health economics, and demography. One section of her research explores the ways in which individuals of low socioeconomic status used cash transfers to improve their health status over the course of the lifecycle. Another section explores the intergenerational persistence of welfare receipt as well as the relationship between social assistance and marriage decisions. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, National Public Radio, the Financial Post, and the CBC, among other outlets, and she has publications in academic journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic History, and Journal of Economic Literature. The National Institutes of Health, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Social Science Humanities and Research Council have awarded grants to fund her research.

She received her Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley in 2011 and has been on faculty at the University of Toronto ever since.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director of Undergraduate Program in Public Policy and Governance
    University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Toronto, Canada2022 - present
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Toronto, Canada2022 - present
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada2011 - 2020
  • Visiting Assistant Professor
    Yale University, Department of Economics, New Haven, United States2020 - 2021
  • Researcher
    University of Chicago, Center for Population Economics, Chicago, United States2011 - 2013
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Economics, Canada1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2022

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Economics
    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States2011
  • B.A., Economics & Mathematics
    New York University, New York, United States2005

LANGUAGES

  • English

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Media enquiries

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Data Sciences Institute (DSI)

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