Working papers

REQUIRING REVISION

Dynamics of Interventionism and Economic Development in Quebec before 1854 (revise and resubmit to Essays in Economic and Business History, revisions submitted)

Did The Quiet Revolution Really Change Anything? (with Chandler Reilly, revise and resubmit to Canadian Journal of Economics)

Economic Freedom Matters A Lot More for Economic Development Than You Think! (with Sean Alvarez and Macy Scheck, revise and resubmit at European Journal of Political Economy, revisions submitted)

Was There a Crisis? Living Standards in Lower Canada, 1760 to 1848 (with Matthew Curtis, revise and resubmit to European Review of Economic History, revisions submitted)

Poverty Spells and Economic Freedom: Canadian Evidence (with James Dean, revise and resubmit to the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization)

Did The Great Leveling Begin After 1921? (with Jacob Hall and Patrick Fitzsimmons, revise and resubmit to the Scandinavian Economic History Review)

UNDER CONSIDERATION

Are Historians Increasingly Illiberal? (with Chandler Reilly)

Brothers from the Same Mother? The Causal Effects of German Reunification on Economic Freedom (with Kevin Grier and Florence Muhoza)

Economic Freedom and Intergenerational Educational Mobility (with Alicia Plemmons and Justin Callais)

Disease Mix and how Economic Freedom Matters for Health Outcomes (with Ilia Murtazashvili and Kelly Hyde).

DRAFTS AVAILABLE

Monetary Famine, Paper Money and International Constraints on Economic Growth: The Case of Colonial Quebec (with Gabriel Mathy)

Intergenerational Mobility, Social Capital, and Economic Freedom (with Justin Callais and Alicia Plemmons)

Income Mobility, Austerity and Liberalization: Evidence from Alberta’s Reforms in the 1990s (with Justin Callais and Alicia Plemmons)

An Almost Laboratory Experiment: John Cowperthwaite and Hong Kong’s Economic Prosperity
(with Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Yang Zhou)

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).

Coercion and Economic Growth 

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 Jari Eloranta and Vadim Kufenko).

Reaffirming the Wheat Boom of 1896? New Evidence for Growth Discontinuities in Canadian Economic History (with Jamie Pavlik and Casey Pender)

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)

The Consequences of the Conquest of 1760 (with Evelyne Brie)

Revisiting the Cost of the Cuban Revolution and Embargo (with João Pedro Bastos and Jamie Pavlik)

Automation, Occupational Licensing and Income Mobility (with Alicia Plemmons and Pradyot Sharma)

Bastita was Castro’s Father: Dynamics of Interventionism and the Cuban Revolution (with Hugo Jales and Carlos Martinez)

Statelessness is not Everywhere the Same: The Causal Effects of State Collapse in Somalia (with Kevin Grier)

Was Soil Erosion an Issue? Agricultural Productivity in Quebec, 1688 to 1851 

The Fertility Gap and Childcare Regulation (with Clara Piano, Lyman Stone and Anna-Claire Flowers)

The Antebellum Puzzle Resolved? Canadian Evidence (with Matt Curtis)

A War-Adjusted National Accounting of US GDP, 1790–2020 and its Implications (with Chandler Reilly)

Do improvements in economic freedom matter more to the free or the unfree? (with Jacob Custer, Alicia Plemmons, Olga Shanks and Justin Callais)

Pareto Interpolations and Inequality Estimates Pre-1960 (with Alexis Akira-Toda)

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)

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