Gregory Mason

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Teaching

  • ECON 4822 - Economic Research and Communication
  • ECON 4140 / ECON 7150 - Economic Evaluation of Public Policy and Programs

Biography

Appointed Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba in 1974, after completing graduate work at UBC, my initial research focussed on transportation, housing and land use planning. My academic interests took a sharp turn in 1981, when I became Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research, which had a primary goal of rehabilitating the data from the Manitoba Basic Income Experiment (Mincome). This initiated a 35-year study of the economics of poverty, with special emphasis on the evaluation of basic income.

In 1988 I moved to a tenured reduced appointment which allowed me to start Prairie Research Associates (PRA) Inc. This grew into one of Canada’s major program evaluation and social research companies. During this 27-year hiatus from full-time academics, I designed and directed several major evaluations on income support, work training and transition of social assistance recipients to the workforce. I retired as Managing Partner in November 2015, but continue with PRA as a Senior Consultant.

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Since retiring from PRA, my research has focussed on the basic annual income and measuring the costs of workplace accidents. In 2016, I repatriated the Mincome database back to Manitoba and that significant social experiment now resides in a database in the Libraries of the University of Manitoba. I also served as an advisor to the Ontario government on their Basic Income Pilot.

My current research continues in health economics, the basic income and reflecting my long-standing interest in land economics. I am advising the Assembly of First Nations on the recovery land rights. 

Education

  • PhD (Interdisciplinary - Economics, Management Science and City Planning), University of British Columbia, 1975

Research

Research interests

  • Indigenous land economics
  • Health economics
  • Basic income

Selected publications

  • 2021 “Electronic medical records and primary care quality: evidence from Manitoba”, Health Economics, (with Elisabet Rodriguez-Llorian).
  • 2021 “A modern annuity for Canada – Concrete reconciliation” Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development (with Jones, S., and Helgason, W.).
  • 2021 “Healthcare utilization and telemedicine: An evaluation using linked administrative data from Manitoba” Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare.(with Elisbet Rodriguez-Llorian).
  • 2017 “The Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment: Lessons Learned 40 Years Later Canadian Public Policy, Volume 43, Number 1, March/mars 2017, pp. 85-104.
  • 2013 “Assessing the value for money of active labour market programming for persons with disabilities” (with A. Buchel, T. Haddad, and D. Unruh) The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation Vol. 27 No.2 Pages 21–38.
  • 2007 “Value for money analysis of labour market programs (with M. Tereraho) 1–The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation Vol. 22 No. 1 Pages 29.

Awards

  • Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society

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