Research

Publications

“Sorting, Peer Effects and School Effectiveness in Private and Public Schools” (with Jane Friesen and Ricardo Meilman Cohn). Forthcoming, Economics of Education Review.

“Establishing Work Productivity Loss Norms: Absenteeism and Presenteeism in a Canadian Working Population” (with Wei Zhang, Hong Qian, Jacynthe L’Heureux, Gary Johns, and Mieke Koehoorn). Forthcoming, Social Science and Medicine.

“Private schools and student achievement” (with Jane Friesen and Ebrahim Azimi). Education Finance and Policy 18(4), 2023: 623–653.

“The determinants of displaced workers’ wages: Sorting, matching, selection, and the Hartz reforms” Journal of Econometrics 233(2), 2023: 568–595.

“Valuing productivity loss due to absenteeism: Firm-level evidence from a Canadian linked employer-employee survey” (with A. Anis, H. Sun, and W. Zhang). Health Economics Review 7:3, 2017.

“The economics of exogamous marriage in small-scale societies” (with Greg Dow and Clyde Reed). Economic Inquiry 54(4), 2016: 1805–1823.

“Illness related wage and productivity losses: Valuing ‘presenteeism’” (with A. Anis, H. Sun, and W. Zhang). Social Science & Medicine 147, 2015: 62–71.

“Match Effects” Research in Economics 69, 2015: 100–121.

“How do School ‘Report Cards’ Affect School Choice Decisions?” (with Jane Friesen, Mohsen Javdani, and Justin Smith). Canadian Journal of Economics 45(2), 2012: 784–807. Appendix

“Heterogeneity and Learning in Labor Markets” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Advances) 10(1), 2010: Article 85.

“Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms” (with Krishna Pendakur). Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 28(1), 2010: 181–189.

“Distribution-Preserving Statistical Disclosure Limitation” (with Gary Benedetto). Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 53(12), 2009: 4228–4242.

“The LEHD Infrastructure Files and the Creation of the Quarterly Workforce Indicators” (with John M. Abowd, Bruce E. Stephens, Lars Vilhuber, Fredrik Andersson, Kevin L. McKinney, and Marc Roemer). In Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, T. Dunne, J. B. Jensen, M. J. Roberts (eds.), Cambridge, MA: NBER, 2009, 149–236.

“A Representation Index: Measuring the Representation of Minorities in the Income Distribution” (with Krishna Pendakur and Ravi Pendakur). The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Advances) 8(1), 2008: Article 44. representation.ado severity.ado

“Wage Differentials in the Presence of Unobserved Worker, Firm, and Match Heterogeneity” Labour Economics 15(4), 2008: 771–793.

“Econometric Analyses of Linked Employer-Employee Data” (with John M. Abowd and Francis Kramarz). In The Econometrics of Panel Data (3rd ed.), L. Matyas and P. Syvestre (eds.), Berlin: Springer, 2008, 727–760. Preprint

“Multiply-Imputing Confidential Characteristics and File Links in Longitudinal Linked Data” (with John M. Abowd). In Privacy in Statistical Databases, J. Domingo-Ferrer and V. Torra (eds.), New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004, 290–297. Preprint

“Disclosure Limitation in Longitudinal Linked Data” (with John M. Abowd). In Confidentiality, Disclosure, and Data Access, P. Doyle, J. Lane, L. Zayatz, and J. Theeuwes (eds.), Amsterdam: North Holland, 2001, 215–277. Preprint

Resting Papers

“Open enrolment and student achievement” (with Jane Friesen and Benjamin Cerf). Draft

“Does open enrolment increase sorting?” (with Jane Friesen and Benjamin Cerf). Draft

Work in Progress

“The short- and long-run effects of childhood exposure to wildfire smoke.”

“Measuring Work Productivity Losses due to Illness” (with Wei Zhang).

Other Publications

“Expanding School Choice through Open Enrolment: Lessons from British Columbia” (with Jane Friesen and Benjamin Cerf). Commentary No. 418, C.D. Howe Institute, February 2015. Link

“Impacts of the Career Transition Assistance (CTA) initiative on the timing and duration of training” (with Mohsen Javdani). Evaluation and Monitoring Branch, Employment and Social Development Canada, 2013.

“Dynamically consistent noise infusion and partially synthetic data as confidentiality protection measures for related time-series” (with John Abowd, Kaj Gittings, Kevin McKinney,Bryce Stephens, and Lars Vilhuber). Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, Office of Management and Budget, 2012 Research Conference Papers, 2012. CES Working Paper Version