I am Associate Professor of Economics at Saint Mary’s University, and Research Fellow at IZA.
Scholarly profiles: Orcid, Google Scholar, and SSRN.
Professional profile: LinkedIn
Department of Economics
Sobey School of Business
Saint Mary’s University
923 Robie Street
Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada
E-mail: joniada.milla[at]smu[dot]ca
My CV can be downloaded here.
Primary fields: Economics of Education, Policy and Program Evaluation
Secondary: Labor Economics, Development Economics, Innovation Policy
Attracting Talent to Teaching: Evidence from a Chilean Scholarship Program, with Veronica Santelices and Edgar Valencia.
Macroeconomic Conditions and the Teaching Profession: Evidence from Chile, with Diana Alessandrini.
Dynamic Effects of a Teacher Bonus Tournament, with Diana Alessandrini.
Government Subsidies as a Risk-Sharing Policy Tool in Innovation Investment, with Hao Lu, Claudia De Fuentes, Soheil Ahmadi. IZA Discussion Paper No. 15725
(Un)Intended Effects of a Teacher Bonus Tournament. Economic Development & Cultural Change, 2026, 72(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/736365
School Choice and Higher Education Attainment, with Diana Alessandrini. Education Economics, 2025, p. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2025.2579801
Son Targeting Fertility Behaviour in Albania, with Marie-Claire Robitaille. The Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60(8), p. 1246–1265. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2024.2354230.
Minimum Wage effects on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Canadian Data, with Diana Alessandrini. Journal of Human Capital, 2024, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.1086/728084
Appeared in media:
Vietnam Era Fathers: The Intergenerational Transmission of Tertiary Education, with Michael Hoy, Thanasis Stengos and Louis N. Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 63(3), p. 593–616 (Leading Article). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12538
The Canadian University Selectivity Premium on Wages. Review of Economic Analysis, 2018, 10, p. 313–349 (Leading Article). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15353/rea.v10i4.1473
Sensitivity of University Rankings: Implications of a Stochastic Dominance Efficiency Analysis, with Mehmet Pinar and Thanasis Stengos. Education Economics, 2018, 27 (1), p. 75–92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2018.1512560.
Updating Higher Education Expectations and Choices with Learning. Education Economics, 2017, 25(6), p. 640–658, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2017.1331204.
Higher Education Value-Added using Multiple Outcomes, with Ernesto San Martin and Sebastien Van Bellegem. Journal of Educational Measurement, 2016, 53(3), p. 368-400, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jedm.12114.
Grades, Aspirations and Post-secondary Education Outcomes, with Louis N. Christofides, Michael Hoy and Thanasis Stengos. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015, 45(1), p. 48–82, DOI: https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v45i1.184203.
Economics of Sustainability
Social Policy: Economic Analysis
Labor Economics
Economic Development & Policy
Human Resource Economics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
