Did Covid-19 result in higher crime on public transit?
Murtaza Haider analyzes the increase in crimes on transit properties and vehicles since the onset of the pandemic in Toronto. He found that since April…
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Meta Analysis: A Tool to ‘settle’ disputes in empirical studies
The UAI hosted a webinar on Meta Analysis USing Stata on Wednesday, March 1. The webinar was conducted by Dr. Chuck Huber, who is the…
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Working from Home is here to stay
Murtaza Haider, in his weekly co-authored column, explains that working from home (teleworking) is not just a fad. With over three times increase in teleworking…
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Addressing the National Housing Deficit
In collaboration with Toronto Metropolitan’s City Building Institute, researchers at the Urban Analytics Institute will discuss how to address the national housing deficit in Canada.…
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Fix supply to address housing affordability
A government-appointed expert panel in B.C. released a report earlier this month imploring all orders of government to collaborate and remove regulatory impediments that have…
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Telework disrupts the spatial equilibrium
Professor Murtaza Haider, in a video presentation, explains how working-from-home (Telework) disrupts spatial equilibria. The home office (the Hoffice) is the innovative construct that helps…
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Estimating Average Treatment Effects with R
Ryerson Urban Analytics Institute is pleased to invite you to a webinar on: Causal Inference by Empirical Balancing Calibration Weighting When: November 23, 2020. 1:30…
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Rental markets are showing increasing weakness
Murtaza Haider writes in the Financial Post about the weakening rental housing markets. See the URL below for the column. https://financialpost.com/real-estate/listings-skyrocket-while-leases-are-up-and-rents-are-down-making-sense-of-the-complex-covid-rental-market? “Rental markets are showing…
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The political economy of urban transportation in India
Ph.D. Opportunity in the Political Economy of Urban transport Decision-making and Financing in India Professor Madhav Badami at McGill University and colleagues invite expressions of…
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Statistics with Python
UAI’s Murtaza Haider is now offering a course on Statistics for Data Science with Python on Coursera. The course is a collaboration with IBM’s Data…
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