Frances R. Woolley
Full Professor
- B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A. (Queen’s), Ph.D. (LSE)
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Blog:
Research fields: public finance, labour economics
Expertise:
• economics of the family
• gender and intra-household inequality
• taxation/benefits of/for families
• interdisciplinarity and feminist economics
Refereed Publications in the Last 6 Years:
Woolley, F. (2024). How much, and why? A critical introduction to the theory and quantitative analysis of intra-household resource distribution. In A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household (pp. 17-32). Edward Elgar Publishing.
“” (with Sharon Tennyson,and Haekyung Yang). Research on Aging- OnlineFirst, February 2022: 1640275211046322
Canadian Public Policy, Volume 47, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 510–522.
“The Political Economy of University Education in Canada” Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d’économique, Volume 51, Number 4, November 2018, Pages 1061–1087.
Most Significant Career Research Contributions:
“The Political Economy of University Education in Canada” Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d’économique, Volume 51, Number 4, November 2018, Pages 1061–1087. Canadian Economics Association Presidential Address.
“The Evolution of Male-Female Earnings Differentials in Canadian Universities” (with Casey Warman and Chris Worswick), Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne économique, Volume 43, Issue 1, February 2010, Pages 347-372.
“A Cournot-Nash Model of Family Decision Making” (with Zhiqi Chen), Economic Journal, Volume 111, Number 474, October 2001, Pages 722–748.
“Taxing Canadian Families: What’s Fair, What’s Not” (with Carole Vincent), Choices, Volume 6, Number 5, July 2000, 44 pages (winner of the 2001 Purvis Prize for best contribution to Canadian economic policy).
“Ending Universality: The Case of Child Benefits” (with A. Vermaeten and J. Madill), Canadian Public Policy, Volume 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 24-39. Winner of the Vanderkamp Award for best paper.
“The Feminist Challenge to Neoclassical Economics” Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 17, 1993, Pages 485-500.