Barry Watson
Professor
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Research Interests:Well-Being
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Courses:Health Economics |
Working Papers:
Intergenerational Income Mobility and the Feelings of White People (with Lars Osberg & Stephen Law). Revisions requested by Social Forces.
Evaluating policies to improve food affordability, nutrition and food security in Canada's remote Northern communities (with Nicholas Li, Tracey Galloway, & Angela Daley).
Rule of thumb: Intimate partner violence in Ecuador (with Paola Beneras).
Insecurity, intolerance, and the social safety net: Did COVID-19 change the political implications of risk-pooling in the US? (with Lars Osberg & Stephen Law).
Recent Publications (Past 5-years):
Min, H., Watson, B., & Daley, A. (2026). The adult health impacts of moving from the Universal Child Care Benefit to the Canadian Child Benefit. Empirical Economics, 70. doi.org/10.1007/s00181-026-02903-8
Clark, J. S., Law, S., Tian, Q., Yu, Y., Dittrich, O. L., & Watson, B. (2025). Going Home: The Impact of COVID-19 on the BMI of Canadians. Atlantic Economic Journal, 53, 253-272. doi.org/10.1007/s11293
-025-09843-1
Watson, B., Kong, N., Phipps, S., & Daley, A. (2025). Dreaming of a Brighter Future? The Impact of Economic Vulnerability on University Aspirations. Social Indicators Research, 180(1), 383-410. doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03682-y
Li, N., Daley, A., & Watson, B. (2025). Give & Take? Child Benefits & Prices in Northern Canada. Canadian Journal of Economics, 58(3), 831-859. doi.org/10.1111/caje.70021
Islam, K., Chowdhury, M., & Watson, B. (2025). Skating on thin ice? Exposure to poverty among Canadians. Journal of Economic Inequality, 23, 1143-1172. doi.org/10.1007/s10888-024-09664-3
Watson, B. & Bayong, B. (2024). The impact of capitation on health insurance membership and the provision of care in Ghana. South African Journal of Economics, 93(2), 146-170. doi.org/10.1111/saje
.12389
Watson, B. & Gholamreza, A. (2024). An Examination of Health Care Efficiency in Canada: A Two-Stage Semi-Parametric Approach. Health Economics, Policy, and Law, 19(4), 409-428. doi.org/10.10
17/S1744133124000100
Kayahan., B., Law, S., Watson, B. (2024) The Marhsall Decisions and Economic Well-Being Indicators in Atlantic Canadian Communities. Journal of New Brunswick Studies, 16(1), 111-144
Daley, A., Pandey, S., Phipps, S., & Watson, B. (2024). From the Food Mail Program to Nutrition North Canada: The impact on food insecurity among Indigenous and non-Indigenous families with children. Canadian Journal of Economics, 57(1), 27-54. doi.org/10.1111/caje.12688
Watson, B. & Daley, A. (2023). A Decomposition of Economic Vulnerability Among Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Canadians. Review of Income and Wealth, 70, 785-819. doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12662
Watson, B., Das, A., Maguire, S., Fleet, G., & Punamiya, A. (2023). The little intervention that could: Creative aging implies healthy aging among Canadian seniors. Aging and Mental Health, 28(2), 307-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2023.2246416
Rohde, N., D’Ambrosio, C., & Watson, B. (2022). Empirical Methods for Measuring Economic Insecurity. Advances in Economic Measurement. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2023-3_6
Watson, B., Law, S., & Osberg, L. (2022). Are Populists Insecure About Themselves or About Their Country? Political Attitudes and Economic Perceptions. Social Indicators Research, 159(2), 667-705. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02767-8
Dweik, I., Watson, B., & Woodhall-Melnik, J. (2022). Publicly Subsidized Housing and Physical Health: A Literature Review. Housing Studies, 39(8), 2117-2142. doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2153108
Kayahan, B., Law, S., Bishop, I., & Watson, B. (2021). Relative Rankings of Communities in New Brunswick Using Community Well-Being Indicators from the Census. Atlantic Canada Economic Review, 2(1).
Kong, N., Phipps, S., & Watson, B. (2021). Parental Economic Insecurity and Child Health. Economics & Human Biology, 43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101068
Daley, A., Rahman, M., & Watson, B. (2021). A Breath of Fresh Air: The Effect of Public Smoking Bans on Indigenous Youth. Health Economics, 30(6), 1517-1539. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4276
Daley, A., Rahman, M., & Watson, B. (2020). Racial/ethnic differences in light of 100% smoke-free state laws: Evidence from adults in the United States. Population Health Management, 24(3), 353-359. doi.org/10.1089/pop.2020.0048