Research

Publications

• Prison Rehabilitation Programs and Recidivism: Evidence from Variations in Availability, with William Arbour and Guy Lacroix . Forthcoming at the Journal of Human Resources.

• Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Resume Field Experiment, with Charles Bellemare, Marion Goussé and Guy Lacroix. (Online Appendix).  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 15 (4): 452-76, 2023. 

• Peer Effects and Risk-Taking Among Entrepreneurs: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence, with Maria Adelaida Lopera, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organisation, 150, pp. 182-201, 2018. 

  • Awarded the best PhD student paper prize (without senior coauthor) at the Annual International Association for Applied Econometrics Conference held in June 2017 in Sapporo, Japan.

• Individual Financial Returns From QPP Reform Options: Analyzing Proposals to Renew the 2nd Pillar of the Retirement Income Program, with David Boisclair, Guy Lacroix and Pierre-Carl Michaud, Canadian Public Policy, 44(2), 2018.

• Taux marginaux effectifs d’imposition : une comparaison Québec-Ontario, with Arnaud Blancquaert, Nicholas-James Clavet, Jean-Yves Duclos et Bernard Fortin, l’Actualité Économique, 93(4), 2017.

• Projecting the Impact of Population Aging on the Quebec Labour Market, with Luc Bissonnette, David Boisclair, François Laliberté-Auger, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Carole Vincent, Canadian Public Policy, 42(4) pp. 431-441, 2016. 

  • Awarded an honorable mention in the 2016 Vanderkamp Prize competition.

• Structural Estimation and Experiments: Applications to Contracting Models, with Charles Bellemare and Bruce Shearer, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 172(2), 342-363, 2016.

• Combiner les expériences de terrain et la modélisation structurelle: le cas de la réciprocité en milieu de travail, with Charles Bellemare and Bruce Shearer,  l’Actualité Économique, 92(1-2), 385-401, 2016.

• Reforming Old Age Security: Effects and Alternatives, with Nicholas-James Clavet, Jean-Yves Duclos and Bernard Fortin, Canadian Tax Journal, 63(2) pp.357-373, 2015.

• Une analyse économique de propositions visant à bonifier la couverture du risque de longévité, with David Boisclair, Jean-Yves Duclos and Pierre-Carl Michaud, l’Actualité Économique, 91(4), 499-530, 2015.

• Projections de l’état de santé de la population québécoise et impacts sur le risque de longévité d’un régime de retraite à prestations déterminées, with Aurélie Côté-Sergent, Jean-Yves Duclos, Alexandre Lekina and Pierre-Carl Michaud, l’Actualité Économique, 91(4), 567-598, 2015.

Working Papers

• Can Parole Reduce Both Time Served and Crime? with William Arbour

• Beyond Traditional Risk Scores: Tackling LS/CMI Offender Misclassifications with Machine Learning, with William Arbour, Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie, Guy Giguère and Guy Lacroix. (Submitted. Draft available upon request.)

•  Peer Effects in Prison and Recidivism 

• Who Benefits from Tax-Preferred Savings Accounts?

Work in Progress

• "Student Debt, Earnings, and Life Decisions: Can Income-Contingent Loans Reduce Constraints?", with Ana Gamarra Rondinel, and A. Abigail Payne 

Technical Reports, Book Chapters and Other Unpublished Work

• Youth transitions after high school, with A Abigail Payne, in Melbourne Institute Compendium 2022: Economic & Social Policy: Towards Evidence-Based Policy Solutions, edited by Peter Dawkins and A. Abigail Payne, Chapter 7, pp. 88-101.

• L’efficacité des programmes de réinsertion sociale pour adultes en milieu carcéral au Québec, with William Arbour and Guy Lacroix, in Le Québec  économique 10: Compétences et transformation du marché du travail, edited by Benoit Dostie and Catheerine Haeck, CIRANO, Chapter 18, pp. 391-414.

• A health microsimulation model for Quebec and Canada, with  David Boisclair, Aurélie Côté-Sergent, François Laliberté-Auger, and Pierre-Carl Michaud, Technical Report, 2016.

• Les dépenses en santé du gouvernement du Québec, 2013-2030: projections et déterminants, with Nicholas-James Clavet, Jean-Yves Duclos, Bernard Fortin and Pierre-Carl Michaud, Working Paper, 2013, CIRANO.

• L’évolution des sources de revenu des Québécois de 2012 à 2030 : une analyse de microsimulation, with Jean-Yves Duclos and Bernard Fortin, in Le Québec économique 2012, edited by Marcelin Joanis, Luc Godbout and Jean-Yves Duclos, Presses de l’Université Laval, Chapter 6, pp. 163-190, 2013.

• Le Québec, 2004-2030: une analyse de micro-simulation, with Nicholas-James Clavet, Jean-Yves Duclos and Bernard Fortin, Technical Report, 2012.

• Technical documentation for SimTax, a Canadian calculator of taxes and transfers.