REQUIRING REVISION
Automation, Occupational Licensing and Income Mobility (with Alicia Plemmons and Pradyot Sharma, revise and resubmit at Southern Economic Journal, revisions submitted)
An Almost Laboratory Experiment: John Cowperthwaite and Hong Kong’s Economic Prosperity
(with Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Yang Zhou, major revisions to Public Choice, revisions submitted)
Intergenerational Mobility, Social Capital, and Economic Freedom (with Justin Callais, Gary Wagner and Alicia Plemmons, revise and resubmit at Economic Modelling)
Did Peace Matter to Shipping Productivity? Quebec’s Shipping Industry from 1763 to 1860 (with Carlos Ramirez, reject and resubmit at European Review of Economic History)
Why nationalize the production of public goods?
(revise and resubmit at Journal of Comparative Economics)
Brothers from the Same Mother? The Causal Effects of German Reunification on Economic Freedom (with Kevin Grier and Florence Muhoza, revise and resubmit at Journal of Comparative Economics)
Disease Mix and how Economic Freedom Matters for Health Outcomes (with Ilia Murtazashvili and Kelly Hyde, revise and resubmit at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization).
UNDER CONSIDERATION
Are Historians Increasingly Illiberal? (with Chandler Reilly)
National Output Without Government? (with Chandler Reilly)
Typhoid Contamination and Self-Regulation of London’s Shellfish Industry (with Nicola Tynan)
Throw the Doughnut Away: Modelizing and Testing a Key Model of Degrowth (with Alek Psurek and Ashruta Acharya)
Revisiting the Cost of the Cuban Revolution and Embargo (with João Pedro Bastos and Jamie Pavlik)
Childcare Regulation and the Fertility Gap (with A.C. Flowers, L. Stone and C. Piano)
Do “Big” Liberalizations Hurt the Environment? (with Justin Callais and Alicia Plemmons)
Income Mobility, Austerity and Liberalization: Evidence from Alberta’s Reforms in the 1990s (with Justin Callais, Chandler Reilly and Alicia Plemmons)
Uneven Gains from the First Wave of Right to Work Laws, 1944 to 1963 (with Justin Callais, Gary Wagner and Alicia Plemmons)
Exceptional growth without curse: Reexamining Canada’s wheat boom, 1896 to 1913 (with Casey Pender and Jamie Bologna Pavlik)
DRAFTS AVAILABLE
Monetary Famine, Paper Money and International Constraints on Economic Growth: The Case of Colonial Quebec (with Gabriel Mathy)
Economic Growth in Quebec during the Colonial Era and International Comparisons (previous version here Note: New version is different from working paper version as it includes additional corrections to answer certain criticisms).
Infant Mortality and the Role of Seigneurial Tenure in Canada East, 1851 (with Alex Arsenault and Vadim Kufenko).
Crowding-Out at Sea: Shipping Productivity and the Burden of the British Navy, 1760 to 1860 (with Carlos Ramirez, Jari Eloranta and Vadim Kufenko).
A Methodologically Consistent Measure of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917-2020 (with Philip Magness and Micha Sparks)
DRAFTS IN PROGRESS
Poverty in Canada, 1901 to 1951 (with Jason Dean)
Are Regulatory Outcomes Endogenous? (with Alex Tabarrok and Alek Psurek)
The Preston Curve, Dictators and Economic Freedom (with Sean Patrick Alvarez and Macy Scheck)
Sterilization Laws, Eugenics, and the Rise of US State Asylums in the 19th Century (with Raymond March)
Growth and Government Size: Accounting for Policy Balance (with Steve Ambler)
Coercion and Economic Growth (with Daniel Smith and Sean Patrick Alvarez)
Culture or Institutions? The Long Shadow of the Conquest of 1760 on Quebec’s Relative Poverty (with Evelyne Brie)
Batista was Castro’s Father: Dynamics of Interventionism and the Cuban Revolution (with Hugo Jales and Carlos Martinez)
Bad Love is Better than No Love: The Causal Effects of State Collapse in Somalia (with Kevin Grier)
Was Soil Erosion an Issue? Productivity in Quebec, 1688 to 1851 (with Jacob Bond and Nick Swanson)
Tax Evasion Before Withholding and Income Inequality Movements, 1917 to 1943 (with Phil Magness and Phil Schlosser)
The Antebellum Puzzle Resolved? Canadian Evidence (with Matt Curtis)
Do improvements in economic freedom matter more to the free or the unfree? (with Jacob Custer, Alicia Plemmons, Olga Shanks and Justin Callais)
Linguistic Wage Gaps Outside Quebec, 1901 to 1951 (with Jason Dean)
The Best Poor Men’s Countries: Estimating Poverty in the New World during the Colonial Era (with Luis Zegarra and Leticia Arroyo Abad)
Land Quality and Malthusian Pressures in Quebec, 1825-1835
Making Economic Freedom Measures Matter for the Poor and Vulnerable? (with Diana Thomas and Marcus Shera)
Income Mobility, Poverty and Minimum Wages (with James Dean)
Indice de développement humain au Québec de 1688 à 2020 (with Matt Curtis)
Economic Freedom and Immigrant Income Course (with James Dean and Tsz Him John Wong)