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Please join us to welcome Krishna Pendakur, Distinguished SFU Professor and Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University to be the W. Edmond Clark Lecture speaker for 2023.

Thursday October 19, 2023

4:00 PM ET

Dupuis Hall, 217

What Should We Do »ÆÉ«ÊÓƵ Rising Inequality? 

Krishna Pendakur is Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, Canada. From 2007 to 2013 he was Co-Director of Metropolis British Columbia (MBC), Center of Excellence for Research on Immigra-tion and Diversity, an interdisciplinary policy research center which connects academic researchers with policy-makers in government and NGO communities. His research focuses on consumer demand econometrics, with an emphasis on the measurement of the cost-of-living, inequality, discrimination and poverty, in a variety of international contexts. He has made major contributions in four areas: work on structural semi- and nonparametric econometric models; research on consumer demand analysis; work on unobserved heterogeneity; and papers on inequality and poverty.