Research Papers

Recent Working Papers:

Separating the Structural and Composition Effects of Higher Education Financial Aid on Field of Study (with Jorgen Hansen and Julie Pernaudet)  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n63KP4pTIarTlHUIogURO__KbbO0Qpau/view?usp=drive_link

The Evolution of the Family Income-Schooling Relationship with Dynamic Selection with Jorgen Hansen (Concordia University), published in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, DOI: 10.1002/jae.2785 drive.google.com/file/d/18dakCaS2KgpwEdExic961AF-Gk7zd0dP/view?usp=sharing

Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with A. Maurel and M. Sidibe), NBER Working Paper W23641, forthcoming in Journal of Labor Economics, 2021  drive.google.com/file/d/1zGy_jbcPR5TQ9mifNzoCPB7Aei-2dTxW/view?usp=sharing

 Reconciling Changes in Wage Inequality from Changes in College Selectivity using a Behavioral Model (with J. Hansen), IZA Working Paper 13356  drive.google.com/file/d/1z4nLqFuGHu_FeTlceG8bFOXbeoRv75Se/view?usp=sharing

Separating True Preferences from Noise and Endogenous Effort, with Tomas Jagelka (University of Chicago and University of Bonn drive.google.com/file/d/1JUlXF3lSoFWmXOPwbyrkqwZbI9UOiBQw/view?usp=drive_link nn) 

Estimating the Distribution of Risk Aversion in Stochastic Choice Models (with M. Sidibé) drive.google.com/file/d/1eKEVFa-6Cks7ZIbAYdyFOXfT9izJAw57/view?usp=sharing

Internal and External Validity of Experimental Risk and Time Preferences (with M. Sidibe), IZA Working Paper 10348 drive.google.com/file/d/1hq5wX-1H3eMxMofh4xBUB8g8oQ2b_WTJ/view?usp=sharing

Estimating a Model of Qualitative and Quantitative Education Choices in France (with F. Poinas), IZA Working Paper 11433.  drive.google.com/file/d/1UOUNq9gsA-1UiKm6d2I-ngfOLSkAmIDN/view?usp=sharing

Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling (with J. Hansen and X. Liu), published in Quantitative Economics (November 2017)  drive.google.com/file/d/1cNPvXnHdSPBi3dbF6Y6ZLGQsmyHyKo-s/view?usp=sharing


Work in progress:

 

Merging Survey Data to a Field Experiment to Estimate the Demand for Higher Education Financial Aid (with J. Hansen, J. Pernaudet and F. Poinas)

  The Transformation of Education Inequality in the US, with Jorgen Hansen (Concordia University), Xingfei Liu (U. of Alberta)