Current Research

Farming Output, Concentration, and Market Access: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century American Railroad Expansion - Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics

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Oil Royalties and the Provision of Public Education in Brazil (with Ridwan Karim) - Revise and Resubmit, Southern Economic Journal

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Any Port in a Storm: Import Competition and Match Quality Downgrading 

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Trade Boomers: Evidence from the Commodities-for-Manufactures Boom (with Ridwan Karim)

Publications

The Geography of Social Distancing in Canada: Evidence from Facebook (2020), Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 46(S1): S19-S28.

Companion paper using Google data at the provincial level can be found here.

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The Effect of Immigration on Local Public Finances (2019), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 39(4): 2423-2428.

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Tariffs and the Composition of Employment: Evidence from the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (2019), Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 45(3): 342-365.

(working paper version)

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Labour Market Characteristics and Surviving Import Shocks (2019), The World Economy, Vol. 42(5): 1288-1315.

(working paper version)

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The Effect of College Education on Intolerance: Evidence from Google Search Data (2019), Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 26(2): 83-86.

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Market Access and Occupational Upgrading: Evidence from the 19th Century American Transportation Network  (2018), Applied Economics, Vol. 50(45): 4879-4900.

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Does Import Competition Worsen the Gender Gap? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data (2018), Economics Letters, Vol. 165(C): 13-16.

(corrections)

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The long-run impact of the power loom: evidence from 19th century Prussia (2014), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 34(3): 1776-1791.