My broad research fields of interest include Labour Economics, Economics of Education, Sports Economics and Applied Econometrics. My primary area of specialization is the linkage between a person’s education and their eventual labour market outcomes.

Publications

French Immersion and Labour Market Earnings, Canadian Public Policy, 50(4), 2024

Does the Labour Market Value Field of Study Specific Knowledge? An Alignment Score Based Approach, Economics of Education Review, 101, 2024

The Within Occupation and Industry Component of the Immigrant-Native Gap in U.S. Self-Employment Rates, Applied Economics Letters, 2024

The Use of Major-Related Knowledge By Early Career College Graduates, Applied Economics, 56(55), 2024

Migration and Self-Employment: The Role of Self-Selection, Journal of Business Economics, 94(4), 2024: 613-637

Skill Transferability and the Earnings of Immigrants. Canadian Journal of Economics. 53(4), 2020: 1404-1428 (With M. Plesca)

Working Papers

Public Shaming and On-The-Job Performance: Major League Baseball Umpires Pitch Call Accuracy in the Automated Ball-Strike Era

Crowd Social Pressure and Baseball Umpires’ Home Team Bias (with M. Sadi)

4th Downs Decoded: A Selection-Bias-Adjusted Study of Player Impact on Fourth Down Conversions in the NFL (with S. Raymond)

Network Effects in Job-Education Matching of International Students in Atlantic Canada (with A. Akbari)

Are Apprentices' Skills Occupation-Specific?

Unemployment and Occupation Mobility During the Covid-19 Pandemic (with M.Plesca)