Ross Hickey 

Former PhD students I supervised: Sumeet Sekhon, Charles Siriban
Former Research Assistants:  Sarah El Kaissi, Braydon Neiszner
Published Research: Google Scholar; IDEAS

Zillo, Federico, Ross Hickey, Ted McDonald, Eric Sun, and Yuting Zhang. "Health shocks and household allocation of time and spending," Review of Economics of the Household, (September 2025): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-025-09804-2

Hickey, Ross, Payne, Abigail A., and Justin Smith. "Tax Reported Charitable Giving in Canada: 1987-2018," Canadian Public Policy forthcoming 

Hickey, Ross, Minaker, Bradley, Payne, Abigail, Roberts, Joanne  and Justin Smith. "The Effect of Tax Price on Donations: Evidence from Canada," National Tax Journal, 76.2 (June 2023): 291-315.

Hickey, Ross, Mongrain, Steeve, Roberts, Joanne and Tanguy van Ypersele. "Private Protection and Public Policing", Journal of Public Economic Theory, 23.1 (February 2021): 5-28.

Media: EurekaAlert; Castanet; theVoice

Hickey, Ross, Minaker, Bradley, and A. Abigail Payne. "The Sensitivity of Charitable Giving to the Timing and Salience of Tax Credits" National Tax Journal, 72.1 (March 2019): 79-110. 

Media: AUSTAXPOLICY; VOX; RESEARCHINSIGHT

Doberstein, Carey, Hickey, Ross and Eric Li. “Nudging NIMBY: Do positive messages regarding the benefits of increased housing density influence resident stated housing development preferences?” Land Use Policy, 54 (July 2016): 276-289.

Hickey, Ross. "Intergovernmental Transfers with Re-election Concerned Politicians", Economics of Governance, 16.4 (2015): 331-351.

Fu, Chunling and Ross Hickey “The Costs of Regulatory Federalism: does provincial labor market regulation impede the integration of Canadian immigrants?”, Journal of International Migration and Integration, 16.4 (2015): 987-1002.

Hickey, Ross. “Bicameral Bargaining and Federation Formation”. Public Choice. 154.3 (March 2013): 217-241.

Battisti, Michele, Jane Friesen and Ross Hickey. "Funding Special Education: Incentives and Outcomes in British Columbia". Canadian Public Policy. 38.2 (June 2012): 147-166.     

Hickey, Ross and David Jacks. "Nominal Rigidities and Retail Price Dispersion in Canada over the Twentieth Century". Canadian Journal of Economics. 44.3 (August 2011): 749 - 780.    

Friesen, Jane, Ross Hickey and Brian Krauth. "Disabled Peers and Academic Achievement". Education Finance and Policy. 5 .3 (Summer 2010): 317 - 348. 

Non-Peer-Reviewed Writing:

Hickey, Ross, A. Abigail Payne, and Justin Smith. “Policy Forum: Understanding the Efficacy of Tax Credits for Charitable Donations in Canada,” Canadian Tax Journal, 72.2 (September 2024): 317-327. 

Hickey, Ross and Justin Smith. “Policy Forum: Bunching in the Political Contribution Tax Credit Schedule: Theory, Evidence, and Policy,” Canadian Tax Journal, 71.4 (December 2023): 1083-1094. 

Hickey, Ross. "Policy Forum: First Nations Property Taxation and Governance in British Columbia", Canadian Tax Journal, 69.3 (2021): 873-87.

Hickey, Ross and Christopher Martin. "How to inject youth into Newfoundland and Labrador's broken, greying democracy". The Conversation. August 8, 2019.  

Hickey, Ross. "Devolution as a means of increasing urban prosperity in Canada". Public Sector Digest. December, 2015.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3953-9869