À propos
Je suis un candidat au doctorat en Économique à la Vancouver School of Economics de l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique. Mes recherches portent sur l'influence des politiques publiques sur la pauvreté dans les villes, avec un intérêt particulier pour le logement social et l'itinérance. Je travaille aussi sur divers sujets en économie du travail.
Vous pouvez trouver mon CV complet ici.
Je suis sur le marché 2025-2026!
Champs de recherche
Économie du Travail, Économie Urbaine, Économie Publique
éducation
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
avec Thomas Lemieux, Derek Messacar, et Raffaele Saggio
Featured: NBER The Digest
R&R au Quarterly Journal of Economics
A Welfare Analysis of Universal Childcare: Lessons From a Canadian Reform
avec Sébastien Montpetit et Luisa Carrer
Récipiendaire du Prix du meilleur papier 2024 (2e prix) du Canadian Labour Economics Forum
Média: NY Times, Le Devoir, Radio Canada | Featured: Policy Impacts, childcarepolicy.net
Gentrification, Displacement, and Income Trajectory of Incumbent Workers
Travaux en cours
Pathways Into and Out of Homelessness
avec Victor Couture, Jeffrey Hicks, et David Green
Immigrant Neighborhood Formation: Evidence from Canadian Cities
avec Vedran Juraj Razmilic et Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere
Publications
“Primary School Reopenings and Parental Work” (2022), Canadian Journal of Economics,
avec Marie Connolly, Catherine Haeck et Tímea Molnár
“The Distribution of COVID-19 Related Risks” (2022) Canadian Journal of Economics
avec Patrick Baylis, Marie Connolly, Nicole Fortin, David Green, Pablo Gutiérrez, Samuel Gyetvay, Catherine
Haeck, Tímea Molnár, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, Henry Siu, Maria teNyenhuis et 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
avec Alain-G Gagnon et Jean-Denis Garon
Rapport
"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
avec Marie Connolly and Catherine Haeck