Brennan McLachlan

BrennanMcLachlan@mcgill.ca
McLachlanBrennan@gmail.com

I am an Economics PhD candidate at McGill University. My research focuses on Labour, Education, and Applied Macroeconomics in Canada.

I was born in British Columbia and completed both my Bachelor of Science (hons.) and my Master of Arts in Economics at the University of Victoria and now live and work in Montreal, Quebec.

My previous research focused on Energy, Agriculture, and Environmental Economics.

Current Projects:

      ● L'effet de l'inadéquation de la demande et de l'offre de travail sur le recrutement et le chômage au Québec
     (The effect of inadequate labor supply and demand on recruitment and unemployment in Quebec)
      with CIRANO
      ● Childhood Skill Development and Returns to Skilled Trades


Experience

Research

Research Assistant

● Dr. Fabian Lange, Dr. Markus Poschke (McGill, 2023-2024) CIRANO
● Dr. Gerrit Cornelis van Kooten (University of Victoria, 2019-2022) Resource Economics & Policy Analysis
( REPA ) research group

Teaching Assistant

McGill & University of Victoria

● Intermediate Macroeconomics (McGill)
● Intermediate Microeconomics (McGill)
● Environmental Economics (McGill)
● Natural Resource Economics (UVic)
● Economics of Firm Strategy (UVic)
● Intro Microeconomics (UVic)

Economist

Environment & Climate Change Canada
May 2021 – Dec. 2021

● Model Development and Quantitative Research Division
● Worked on DSGE modelling of Cap & Trade scenarios using GAMS

Education

McGill University

PhD Economics
● Research Focus: Labour & Macroeconomics
● Awards: Graduate Excellence Award in Economics, McCall MacBain Fellowship
     2022 - Present

University of Victoria

MA Economics
● Thesis: Essays in Agricultural Economics
● Awards: Phillips, Hager and North Scholarship, UVic Graduate Award Tier 1
     2022

University of Victoria

BSc (hons.) Economics
● Thesis: Climate Change and Crop Yields: Implications for International Trade
● Awards: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (2019 & 2020)
● Activities: Economics Policy Case Competition (1st place)
     2020

Research

Publications, Peer-Reviewed


McLachlan, B. A. & van Kooten, G. C. (2021) Reforming Canada's Dairy Supply Management Scheme and the Consequences for International Trade. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 70(1), 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12305

McLachlan, B. A., van Kooten, G. C., and Zheng, Z. (2020) Country-Level Climate-Crop Yield Relationships and the Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security. SN Applied Sciences, 2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs42452-020-03432-4

Working Papers


McLachlan B. A., Afroz, S. and van Kooten, G. C. (2022) Effects of Temperature and Precipitation on Saskatchewan Crop Yields. Resource Economics & Policy Analysis Research Group. Repa Working Paper 2022-05

McLachlan, B. A. & van Kooten, G. C. (2022) CO2 Fertilization versus Temperature: A Meta-Regression Analysis of Crop Yields. Resource Economics & Policy Analysis Research Group. REPA Working Paper 2022-04

McLachlan, B. A. (2020) Vector Autoregressive Analysis of the Impacts of Canadian Natural Gas. Resource Economics & Policy Analysis Research Group. REPA Working Paper 2020-05

Skills

Econometric Analysis
     ● Stata, Expert;
     ● R, Proficient;
     ● EViews, Proficient

Optimization, CGE, and DSGE Modelling
     ● MatLab, Proficient;
     ● GAMS, Proficient

Article publication process, typesetting scientific articles
     ● LaTeX, Expert

Languages
     ● English, Fluency;
     ● French, Intermediate

Soft Skills
  • Research
  • Communication
  • Project Management
  • Collaboration