Jean-William P. Laliberté
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
University of Calgary
jeanwilliam.lalibert [at] ucalgary [dot] ca
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary, and an IZA Research Affiliate.
I am on leave for the 2024-25 academic year, spending the year at the Erasmus School of Economics.
My research interests are in labour and public economics, with a focus on the economics of education, intergenerational mobility and applied econometrics.
I received my PhD from the University of Toronto (2018), my MA from the University of British Columbia (2011) and my BA from Université Laval (2009).
You can find my CV here.
Working papers and selected work in progress
Parental Income in the Labour Market (with Alexander Whalley)
The Worker Level Impact of Resource Sector Shocks
The Geography of Gender Gaps in Education and Earnings
Publications
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility (with Catherine Haeck)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 17(1): 431-458, 2025.
[Manuscript, Replication package]
Dataset: Measures of occupational segregation by parental income, occupational following and occupational returnsThe Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies (with Sencer Karademir and Stefan Staubli)
Journal of Labor Economics, Accepted.
[Manuscript]
Dataset: Canadian Atlas of Child PenaltiesEstimating Complementarity With Large Choice Sets: An Application to Mergers (with Daniel Ershov, Mathieu Marcoux and Scott Orr)
RAND Journal of Economics, Accepted.Salience and Taxation with Imperfect Competition (with Kory Kroft, René Leal Vizcaíno and Matthew J. Notowidigdo)
Review of Economic Studies, 91(1): 403-437, 2024.
[Manuscript, Online Appendix, Replication package]Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital (with Mitra Akhtari and Natalie Bau)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(1): 1-32, 2024.
[Manuscript, Slides, Replication package]Efficiency and Incidence of Taxation with Free Entry and Love-of-Variety Preferences (with Kory Kroft, René Leal Vizcaíno and Matthew J. Notowidigdo)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 16(2): 300–334, 2024.
[Manuscript, Online Appendix, Replication package]Long-term Contextual Effects in Education: Schools and Neighborhoods
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(2): 336–377, 2021.
[Manuscript, Replication package]
Media coverage: AEA Research Highlights.Language Skill Acquisition in Immigrant Social Networks: Evidence from Australia
Labour Economics, 57: 35-45, 2019.
[Manuscript]What Sets College Thrivers and Divers Apart? A Contrast in Study Habits, Attitudes, and Mental Health (with Graham Beattie, Catherine Michaud-Leclerc and Philip Oreopoulos)
Economics Letters, 178: 50-53, 2019.
[NBER Working Paper]
Media coverage: Financial Times.Thrivers and Divers: Using Non-Academic Measures to Predict College Success and Failure (with Graham Beattie and Philip Oreopoulos)
Economics of Education Review, 62: 170-182, 2018.
[NBER Working Paper]
Media coverage: Washington Post, Journal Métro.
Book chapters
Parental Education and the Rising Transmission of Income between Generations (with Marie Connolly and Catherine Haeck)
in Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth. University of Chicago Press. 2022. [Manuscript]
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