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Maya Povhe, a fourth-year student in the management and international business program at U of T Scarborough, has been named a winner of the Canadian Economics Association’s inaugural .

The competition recognizes proposals that explore the use of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) data to support understandings of EDI in the economics profession.

Povhe was awarded for her proposal, “The Socioeconomics of Economics Students: The Case of Canada,” which explores socio-economic diversity in the field and why those with a PhD in economics are more likely to come from wealthy families and have parents with PhDs.

She plans to continue that line of research at U of T. “Economists play a key role in measuring and designing policies for income inequality – it is important that their field in particular reflects a range of personal experiences with those issues,” she says.