Kory Kroft, University of Toronto

Research

debt relief household finance poverty social insurance job training employment earnings experiment

Latest funding

The strategic responses to information sharing among banks
SSHRC · 2026 · Principal investigator
$99,950
Evaluating the Impact of Job Training in the Presence of Firm Heterogeneity
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$54,692
The Effects of Targeted Debt Relief on Financial and Labor Market Outcomes
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$160,297

All 7 grants and awards

The strategic responses to information sharing among banks

Principal investigatorSSHRC2026Insight Development Grants

Principal investigators: Kroft, Kory

$99,950

Evaluating the Impact of Job Training in the Presence of Firm Heterogeneity

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kroft, Kory

Keywords: job training; employment; earnings; experiment; amenities; lee bounds

$54,692

The Effects of Targeted Debt Relief on Financial and Labor Market Outcomes

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kroft, Kory

Keywords: debt relief; household finance; poverty; social insurance

$160,297

The Effects of Targeted Debt Relief on Financial and Labor Market Outcomes

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kroft, Kory

Keywords: debt relief; household finance; poverty; social insurance

$26,025

Rent-sharing and imperfect competition: evidence from procurement auctions

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Luo, Yao

Keywords: procurement auction; rent sharing; the winner's curse; regression discontinuity; local average treatment effect

$162,525

Imperfect competition, product differentiation and taxation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kroft, Kory

Keywords: sales taxes; product variety; welfare

$75,162

The Welfare Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform During the Great Recession

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Kroft, Kory

$47,512

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: debt relief Dear Professor Kroft, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on debt relief connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "The strategic responses to information sharing among banks" (2026), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]