Jennifer Stewart

My research is in the fields of health and labour economics, particularly in the areas where they overlap, such as the impact of labour force status on health status and vice versa. Recently, I have been examining the impact of maternal employment on child outcomes. One area of research examines the effect of maternal employment on long-run outcomes, such as employment, income, and post-secondary attendance. Another area of research examines the effect of maternal employment on the child’s likelihood of being overweight, in particular, we try to determine the reasons there is a relationship and factors that may moderate or exacerbate the relationship.

• Stewart, Jennifer, Richard Kibombo, and L. Pauline Rankin. “Gendered Livelihoods in the Artisanal Mining Sector in the Great Lakes Region.” Canadian journal of African studies 54(1): pp. 37–56 (January 2020) Toronto: Routledge.
• Bartram, Mary, and Jennifer M Stewart. “Income-Based Inequities in Access to Psychotherapy and Other Mental Health Services in Canada and Australia.” Health policy (Amsterdam) 123(1): pp. 45-50 (January 2019) Ireland: Elsevier B.V.
• Stewart, Jennifer M, and Saul Schwartz. “Equal Education, Unequal Jobs: College and University Students with Disabilities.” Relations industrielles (Québec, Québec) 73(2): pp. 369-394 (2018) Quebec: Département des relations industrielles de l’Université Laval.
• Chowhan, James, and Jennifer M Stewart. “While Mothers Work Do Children Shirk? Determinants of Youth Obesity.” Applied economic perspectives and policy 36(2): pp. 287-308 (June 2014) Oxford University Press.
• McEwen, Annie, and Jennifer M Stewart. “The Relationship Between Income and Children’s Outcomes: A Synthesis of Canadian Evidence.” Canadian public policy 40(1): pp. 99-109 (March 2014) Guelph: University of Toronto Press.
• Elgar, Frank J, and Jennifer M Stewart. “Validity of Self-Report Screening for Overweight and Obesity: Evidence from the Canadian Community Health Survey.” Canadian journal of public health 99(5): pp. 423-427 (September 2008) Cham: Canadian Public Health Association.
• Jennifer M Stewart, James Chowhan “Television and child outcomes: Can socio-economic status mediate the link?” Social Science & Medicine, 65(7): pp. 1324-1336 (October 2007). Elsevier.
• Dooley, Martin, and Jennifer Stewart. “Family Income, Parenting Styles and Child Behavioural-Emotional Outcomes.” Health economics 16(2): pp. 145–162 (February 2007) Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• Dooley, Martin, Ellen Lipman, and Jennifer Stewart. “Exploring the Good Mother Hypothesis: Do Child Outcomes Vary with the Mother’s Share of Income?” Canadian public policy 31(2): pp. 123–143 (June 2005) Guelph: University of Toronto Press.
• Dooley, Martin, and Jennifer Stewart. “Family Income and Child Outcomes in Canada.” The Canadian journal of economics 37(4): pp. 898-917 (November 2004) Oxford, UK; Malden.
• Stewart, Jennifer M et al. “Do Ordering Effects Matter in Willingness-to-Pay Studies of Health Care?” Journal of health economics 21(4): pp. 585-599 (2002) Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
• O’Shea, Eamon, Jennifer Stewart, Cam Donaldson, and Phil Shackley “Eliciting Preferences for Resources Allocation in Health Care,” Economic and Social Review, 32(3): pp.217-238 (2002). SAGE Publications.URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61833
• Stewart, Jennifer M. “The Impact of Health Status on the Duration of Unemployment Spells and the Implications for Studies of the Impact of Unemployment on Health Status.” Journal of health economics 20(5): pp. 781–796 (2001) Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
• Wall, R., Rehm, J., Fischer, B., Brand’s, B., Gliksman, L., Stewart, J., Medved, W., & Blake, J. “Social costs of untreated opioid dependence.” Journal of Urban Health, 77(4): pp 688–722 (December 2000). New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Stewart, Jennifer, and Martin D Dooley. “The Duration of Spells on Welfare and Off Welfare Among Lone Mothers in Ontario.” Canadian public policy 25: pp. S47–S72 (November 1999). Downsview, Ont: University of Toronto Press.

• SNC-Lavalin: Does 9,000 jobs make it a ‘public policy problem’? (Global News, Mar 2019)