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PUBLIC ECONOMICS DATA ANALYSIS LABORATORY
Public Economics Data Analysis Laboratory (“PEDAL”)
Department of Economics
McMaster University
Director: A. Abigail Payne
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ABOUT US
PEDAL was started in the fall of 2004 with funds from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Innovation Trust, and McMaster University. The purpose of the laboratory is to develop high quality research data sets that may be used to study various Canadian public economics issues. PEDAL has both the infrastructure and human resources to collect and clean major datasets, filling in the lack for comprehensive Canadian data related to public economics. PEDAL’s work thus far has focused on provincial based data sets. These data sets complement the work undertaken by Statistics Canada.
CURRENT PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
Current projects concern education policy issues at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels; issues concerning donor and government behaviour with respect to the charitable sector; studies on various topics of political economy.
The Laboratory has several levels of security, allowing for the storage and protection of sensitive data not publicly available. PEDAL is also used for training students, gathering groups of researchers, and empirical analysis. Current members of PEDAL include researchers at McMaster University, University of Toronto, and several U.S. and U.K. universities.
CHARITY SURVEY
ATTN: For information on current charity surveys, please check our current projects page. Click here for a summary of survey responses of Canadian donors. Click here for a summary of survey responses of Canadian charities.
NEW: Click here for a summary of survey responses of the U.K. fundraisers, sponsors, and donors.
