Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦
Professor of Economics, labour/policy researcher at WLU. Mom, gardener & beer drinker in Kitchener 🇨🇦. Work stuff: sites.google.com/view/tammyschirle
- Fertility? A difficult conversation and everyone comes with their priors, priorities, and personal stories. Lots to talk about 👇 www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...
- Thinking of moms with young kids, I got to speak with @amandagalbraith.bsky.social today on her Free for All Friday show about falling fertility rates. So I updated a few notes on people's decisions to have kids. sites.google.com/view/tammysc...
- Sigh 😔 My kid is in high school 'civics', and I'm waiting patiently to see if she learns *anything* about fed/prov/municipal responsibilities.
- It's LFS PUMF day! I even got to start my 2026 folder. 👇🇨🇦 Employment rates of parents, by gender and age of kids. Jan 2015- Jan 2026
- Thinking of moms with young kids, I got to speak with @amandagalbraith.bsky.social today on her Free for All Friday show about falling fertility rates. So I updated a few notes on people's decisions to have kids. sites.google.com/view/tammysc...
- 1. I answer these calls when I can (maybe someone thinks I have an agenda 🤷🏻♀️) 2. With no notice on questions that actually require some minimum work (checking numbers, double checking details), and TV hair (not my PJs, or looking like I just got back from the gym), I have to say no 3. see next in 🧵
- Dear Ontario: sprinkling salt on a snowbank is not the same as clearing your sidewalk.
- Just feeling annoyed: Our uni research office always makes me over-estimate payroll taxes before approval, so after my RA is paid, there's always a small amount left in the account. I'm just trying to use up these funds with an RA, get the money into a student's hands, and close the account
