Current Research
- Revise and Resubmit, Demography
Fuelling Change? Access to Coal and Occupational Choice in the 19th Century
Railroads, Market Access, and Indigenous Land Dispossession
(Joint with Azim Essaji and Rob Gillezeau)
Publications
The Effects of the 19th Century US Railroad Expansion on Port-Level Wine Trade Flows
- Forthcoming, Journal of Wine Economics
Railroads, Land Cessions, and Indigenous Nations: Evidence from Canada
(Joint with Azim Essaji and Rob Gillezeau)
- Accepted, Canadian Journal of Economics
Replication files here.
Changing the pace of the melting pot: The effects of immigration restrictions on immigrant assimilation (2024), Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 52(4): 733-754. [open access]
The Local Effects of the First Golden Age of Globalization: Evidence from American Ports, 1870-1900
- Forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Economics
Replication files (including district-country-year trade flows) here.
End of the Line: The Effects of Large Passenger Rail Cuts on Local Economic Outcomes (2024), Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 50(4): 422-439.
VIA Rail schedules for 1989 and 1990 used in paper here.
- Forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics [open access]
Banking on Railroads: The Effect of Market Access on Banking Provision During the Gilded Age (2024), Economic History Review [open access], Vol. 72(4): 489-507.
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.