Robin Boadway, Queen's University

Research

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Latest funding

Designing tax-transfer policy to achieve equality of opportunity
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$61,416
Tax-transfer policies among governments, entrepreneurs and households
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
$90,250
The Canadian network of federalism studies/Réseau canadien d'études sur le fédéralisme (CNFS/RCEF)
SSHRC · 2002 · Co-investigator
$60,000

All 7 grants and awards

No publications available.

Designing tax-transfer policy to achieve equality of opportunity

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Boadway, Robin W.

Keywords: redistribution; equality of opportunity; tax-transfer policy

$61,416

Tax-transfer policies among governments, entrepreneurs and households

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Boadway, Robin W.

Keywords: intergovernmental transfers; taxes and transfers; entrepreneurs; redistribution

$90,250

The Canadian network of federalism studies/Réseau canadien d'études sur le fédéralisme (CNFS/RCEF)

Co-investigatorSSHRC2002Federalism and Federations

Principal investigators: Lazar, Harvey

$60,000

Themes in the economics and politics of redistribution

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Boadway, Robin

Keywords: redistribution; equal opportunity; redistributive politics; equalization

$69,000

Canadian Institute of Federalism studies / Institut Canadien des études sur le fédéralisme

Co-investigatorSSHRC2000Federalism and Federations

$270,000

Imperfect information and the theory of economic policy

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Boadway, Robin W.

Keywords: Imperfect information; economic policy

$43,500

Imperfect information and the theory of economic policy

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Federalism and Federations

Principal investigators: Boadway, Robin

Keywords: Imperfect information; economic policy

$17,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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