Research
Publications
Estimating the Gains from Trade in Frictional Labour Markets, October 2023. (with German Pupato and Jeanne Tschopp) Online Appendix. Forthcoming, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
The Effects of a Targeted Financial Constraint on the Housing Market, April 2021. The Review of Financial Studies. (with Lu Han, Chandler Lutz, and Derek Stacey)
Economy-Wide Spillovers from Booms: Long-Distance Commuting and the Spread of Wage Effects, March 2019, Journal of Labor Economics. (with David A. Green, Rene Morissette, and Iain Snoddy)
In Search of Labor Demand. American Economic Review, September 2018. (with Paul Beaudry and David A. Green)
The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks. Journal of Labor Economics, 2016. (with Paul Beaudry and David A. Green)
Has the Canadian Labor Market Polarized?. Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015. (with David A. Green)
The Declining Fortunes of the Young. American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2014. (with Paul Beaudry and David A. Green)
Spatial Equilibrium with Unemployment and Wage Bargaining. Journal of Urban Economics, 2014. (with Paul Beaudry and David A. Green)
A Re-examination of the Social Returns to Human Capital. Labour Economics, 2013.
Does Industrial Composition Matter for Wages?. Econometrica, 2012. (with Paul Beaudry and David A. Green)
Working papers
Breaking the Charm: How Odd Pricing Fails in Housing Markets, 2025. (with Lu Han and Sridhar Moorthy)
Estimating Union Wage Spillovers: The Role of Bargaining and Emulation Effects (Online Appendix), 2025. (with D. A. Green, Iain Snoddy, Jeanne Tschopp). Revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy.
Pay Gaps and Outside Wages: The U.S. Gender Wage Gap 1980-2010, September 2023. (with Christopher Bidner)
Highly Disaggregated Topological Land Unavailability, December 2017. (with Chandler Lutz)
Local Economic Conditions and Local Equity Preferences, July 2017. (with Chandler Lutz and Aleksandra Rzeznik)
Taking Selection to Task: Bounds on Trends in Occupational Task Prices, August 2016. (with Peter Gottschalk and David A. Green)
Job Polarization in the U.S.: A Reassessment of the Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, August 2011. (with A.M. Lefter)
Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Provincial Tax Reforms, 2005.