I am an associate professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and an IZA research affiliate. My research interests are in macroeconomics and labor economics. My replication material is available at https://github.com/jcrechet.


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Publications

A model of risk sharing in a dual labor market. Journal of Monetary Economics vol. 147, October 2024.

Heterogeneity in labor mobility and unemployment flows across countries. European Economic Review vol. 155, June 2023.  

Survey non-response in Covid-19 times: the case of the Labour Force Survey, with Pierre Brochu. Canadian Public Policy 48, no. 3, September 2022. [online appendix]  [media: The Globe and Mail]. Runner-up of the 2022 Vanderkamp Prize.

Why don't firms hire young workers during recessions? A replication of Eliza Forsythe (Economic Journal, 2022). With Jing Cui, Barbara Sabada, and Antoine Sawyer. Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol 4 (2025-4).


Working papers


Life-cycle worker flows and cross-country aggregate employment, with Etienne Lalé and Linas Tarasonis. IZA DP no. 16878 (2024). [updated July 2025 version]  [Online Appendix]. Revision requested, Journal of Monetary Economics.

Labour-market flows and worker trajectories in Canada during COVID-19, with Pierre Brochu and Zechuan Deng. CLEF WP no. 32 (2020).  Revisions requested, PLOS ONE.


Screening, churning, and worker flows in a dual labour market, with Félicien Goudou (2024)

Participation in meta replication studies

Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope. With Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook (and 404 other coauthors). IZA DP no. 16912 (2024). R&R at Nature.

Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science. Brodeur et al. (288 coauteurs). 




Teaching (2024-2025)

ECO 7925 - PhD macroeconomic theory II (2 credits, co-taught with Yazid Dissou)

ECO 6120/6520 - Macroeconomic theory IV (2 credits, co-taught with Yazid Dissou)

ECO 6193/6593 - Advanced topics in labour economics


Non-academic

 Indice précurseur Desjardins : un outil amélioré pour mieux prévoir les cycles économiques du Québec. Bégin, Hélène, Paul Zaporzan, François Dupuy, Mathieu D'Anjou et Jonathan Créchet. Desjardins-Études économiques  (2020).

 Du nouveau pour l’Indice précurseur Desjardins. Bégin, Hélène et Jonathan Créchet. Desjardins-Études économiques. (2013). 


Other

In May 2022 I organized a workshop in macro-labor at the University of Ottawa (see the program here).