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Working Papers

1. The Evolution of Unobserved Skill Returns in the U.S.: A New Approach Using Panel Data (with Lance Lochner and Youngki Shin), Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
2. The Heterogeneous Impacts of Job Displacement: Evidence from Canadian Job Separation Records (with Serdar Birinci and Kurt See) [Supplemental Appendix], Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics
3. Inequality in Parental Transfers and Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid

Refereed Publications

1. Democratic Political Economy of Financial Regulation (with Igor Livshits), International Economic Review, Forthcoming. [Working Paper]
2. Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments (with Elizabeth Caucutt, Joseph Mullins, and Lance Lochner), Journal of Political Economy, 134 (1):150–209 (2026). [Working Paper]
3. Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill (with Lance Lochner), Journal of Econometrics, 243 (1–2):105255 (2024). [Working Paper]
4. Four Decades of Canadian Earnings Inequality and Dynamics across Workers and Firms (with Audra Bowlus, Émilien Gouin-Bonenfant, Huju Liu and Lance Lochner), Quantitative Economics, 13:1447–1491 (2022). [Working Paper]
5. Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints: Why Do Poor Children Perform so Poorly? (with Elizabeth Caucutt and Lance Lochner), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119 (1):102–147 (2017). [Working Paper]

Selected Policy Work

1. Contribution of Human Capital Accumulation to Canadian Economic Growth (with Audra Bowlus and Chris Robinson) Bank of Canada Staff Discussion Paper 2022-7
2. The Payoffs of Higher Education (with Gabriela Galassi and Natalia Kyui) The Economy, Plain and Simple, October 7, 2020