About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at The Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia. Much of my research focuses on how public policy shapes poverty in cities, with a particular interest in social housing and homelessness. I also work on various topics in labour economics.
You can find my full CV here.
I'm on the 2025-2026 Job Market!
Fields
Labour Economics, Urban Economics, and Public Economics.
Education
PhD Economics, 2020-present - University of British Columbia
MA Economics, 2020 - Queen's University
BSc Economics, 2018 - Université du Québec à Montréal
Job Market Paper
It's About Time: Social Housing, Parental Labour Supply, and Long-term Child Outcomes
Abstract: This paper studies the effect of highly subsidized social housing on both medium-term parental labour market outcomes and long-term child earnings and educational attainment. Using linked Canadian administrative data, I exploit variation in the timing of entry into social housing to identify the effects of additional exposure during childhood and find that children who enter earlier achieve better adult outcomes. For parents, event-study estimates around entry reveal substantial reductions in labour supply and earnings, with nearly no effect on net-of-housing income. A simple time-allocation model—where social housing receipt both relaxes the budget constraint and insures parents against earnings uncertainty—rationalizes these large labour supply responses. Declines in parental labour supply are a key factor behind improvements in child outcomes: gains for children are largest when parents reduce their labour supply the most. This channel is highly robust and appears to be causal, as suggested by an analysis isolating exogenous labour supply responses using displacement distance. These results highlight a critical trade-off between maximizing the return for children and the labour market participation of parents.
Working Papers
Why Do Union Jobs Pay More? New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
with Thomas Lemieux, Derek Messacar, and Raffaele Saggio
Featured: NBER The Digest
R&R at the Quarterly Journal of Economics
A Welfare Analysis of Universal Childcare: Lessons From a Canadian Reform
with Sébastien Montpetit and Luisa Carrer
Awarded the Best Paper Prize 2024 (runner-up) of the Canadian Labour Economics Forum
Media: NY Times, Le Devoir, Radio Canada | Featured: Policy Impacts, childcarepolicy.net
Gentrification, Displacement, and Income Trajectory of Incumbent Workers
Work in progress
Pathways Into and Out of Homelessness
with Victor Couture, Jeffrey Hicks, and David Green
Immigrant Neighborhood Formation: Evidence from Canadian Cities
with Vedran Juraj Razmilic and Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere
Published work
“Primary School Reopenings and Parental Work” (2022), Canadian Journal of Economics,
with Marie Connolly, Catherine Haeck and Tímea Molnár
“The Distribution of COVID-19 Related Risks” (2022) Canadian Journal of Economics
with Patrick Baylis, Marie Connolly, Nicole Fortin, David Green, Pablo Gutiérrez, Samuel Gyetvay, Catherine
Haeck, Tímea Molnár, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, Henry Siu, Maria teNyenhuis and Casey Warman
"Managing Immigration in the Canadian Federation: The Case of Quebec" (2020) In: Samy Y., Duncan H. (eds) International
Affairs and Canadian Migration Policy. Canada and International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan
with Alain-G Gagnon and Jean-Denis Garon
Policy work
"Professions et industries : quels sont les risques de transmission de la COVID-19? Un outil pour faire face à la deuxième vague"
(2020) Série perspective CIRANO 2020PE-40
with Marie Connolly and Catherine Haeck