Current Research
The Local Effects of the First Golden Age of Globalization: Evidence from American Ports, 1870-1900
- Revise and Resubmit, Canadian Journal of Economics
Banking on Railroads: The Effect of Market Access on Banking Provision During the Gilded Age
- Revise and Resubmit, Economic History Review
Did the Melting Pot Come to End? The Effects of Immigration Restrictions on Immigrant Assimilation
- Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Comparative Economics
- Revise and Resubmit, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics
End of the Line: The Effects of Large Passenger Rail Cuts on Local Economic Outcomes
Railroads, Treaty-making, and Indigenous Nations: Evidence from Canada
(Joint with Azim Essaji and Rob Gillezeau)
Railroads, Market Access, and Indigenous Land Dispossession
(Joint with Azim Essaji and Rob Gillezeau)
Publications
Does Anti-Immigration Policy Lead to Protectionism? Evidence from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (2024), Applied Economics Letters.
Online Appendix here.
Forced Displacement and Migrants' Location Choices: Evidence from the Japanese-Canadian Experience during World War II (2023), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 211: 206-240. [Open Access]
Replication files here.
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion (2024), Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 91: 101503.
Working paper version here.
Replication files here.
Coverage: National Affairs Findings Blog
Oil Royalties and the Provision of Public Education in Brazil (2023), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 92: 102351.
(Joint with Ridwan Karim)
Online appendix here.
Farming Output, Concentration, and Market Access: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century American Railroad Expansion (2022), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 157: 102878.
Working paper version here.
Replication files here.
Viewing the COVID-19 Pandemic from Space: The Effect of COVID-related Mobility Declines on Night Light Brightness in Canada (2022), Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 45(3): 188-198.
Working paper version here.
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.
A non-technical explanation of mobility data with a summary of the work done in this publication can be found here. This non-technical document was written for a multidisciplinary conference on data and privacy during COVID-19.
Working paper version here.
Labour Market Characteristics and Surviving Import Shocks (2019), The World Economy, Vol. 42(5): 1288-1315.
The Effect of College Education on Intolerance: Evidence from Google Search Data (2019), Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 26(2): 83-86.
Market Access and Occupational Upgrading: Evidence from the 19th Century American Transportation Network (2018), Applied Economics, Vol. 50(45): 4879-4900.
Does Import Competition Worsen the Gender Gap? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data (2018), Economics Letters, Vol. 165(C): 13-16.
The long-run impact of the power loom: evidence from 19th century Prussia (2014), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 34(3): 1776-1791.