Congratulations to the @cleforum.bsky.social Best Paper Prize finalists: @amer5.bsky.social (@econuoft.bsky.social), @plbeauregard.bsky.social (@ubcvse.bsky.social) and Sara Benetti (@ubcvse.bsky.social)! The grand prize winner will be announced at the CLEF Conference in Montreal on April 17-18
Your counterfactual might be unknowable, but your story is exactly why I think this research matters. Thanks for sharing this!
Sophia from the @stone-centre-ubc.bsky.social wrote a feature about my research on social housing. Read it here:
stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/pierre-loup-...
What he believed in: buying/building pipelines, but with a different leader.
🎉 We are thrilled to kick off our 2025 Econ Job Market Vlog!
Our first featured JMC is Sébastien Montpetit (@warwickecon.bsky.social), whose research focuses on public and gender economics.
🎥 Check out his JMP video to learn more about his work!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qogl...
10/ You can find more information about my JMP on my website! www.pierreloupbeauregard.org
9/Policy takeaway: child-centred returns are real and sizable—but tied to parents’ reduced work. Designs that strictly minimize short-run adult work disincentives risk blunting child gains; designs that allow (or modestly encourage) time reallocation at home seem to pay off for the next generation.
8/ Welfare: MVPF of one extra year of social housing for a 1-parent-1-child family = 1.43. Partial MVPFs that examine only parents or only children misclassify the policy as undesirable; the value lies in the bigenerational incidence. Net benefits become apparent in a comprehensive calculation.
7/ Instead, the previously underinvestigated channel of parental time investments is most consistent with my results. The randomness in displacement distance generates quasi-exogenous variation in labour-supply reductions. Longer moves → larger reductions in parents’ work → better child outcome.
6/ Mechanisms considered in the literature fail to explain the observed pattern. Entry moves are, if anything, to slightly worse place effects (à la Chetty–Hendren). Net-of-housing disposable resources change little; pure income channel is unlikely to explain children’s sizable long-run gains.
4/ I then use an exposure design to measure the impact on long-term child outcomes, comparing those who enter earlier vs. later. Oversubscribed programs and long waitlists, make timing manipulation virtually impossible. Earlier entry → higher adult earnings, more post-sec, less safety-net use.
3/ These far exceed what “pure income” windfalls predict. A time-allocation model—where RGI (1) lowers rent, (2) adds an implicit earnings tax, and (3) insures against earnings risk—rationalizes the large labour-supply response. The insurance channel explains about half.
2/ I begin by studying the impact of RGI on adults using a matched event study framework. RGI entry cuts parents’ labour earnings by $2,400 (~20%). Employment falls 6 p.p., and hours drop 7.3% among job stayers. Meanwhile, yearly rent falls by ~$3,500.
1/ Hi #EconSky, I’m a #EconJobMarket candidate from @ubcvse.bsky.social
I study the effect of Rent-Geared-to-Income (RGI) housing in Toronto & Montréal using parent–child-linked administrative tax data.
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Meet the Vancouver School of Economics’ 2025/26 PhD job market candidates! View their profiles here: economics.ubc.ca/people/phd-j... @plbeauregard.bsky.social
How Universal Child Care Could Change New York's Economy?
Our paper on Québec's childcare program is featured in this NYT article.
(with Sébastien Montpetit and Luisa Carrer)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...
Our paper is featured in this month’s NBER Digest!
www.nber.org/digest/20250...
We are excited to announce the following new AEs with expertise in IO, labor, and applied micro: Francesco Decarolis (Bocconi University), Thomas Lemieux (VSE), Mathias Reynaert (TSE), Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues (University of Toronto), and Andrew Sweeting (Maryland University)
“On finance, mais on a vraiment aucun pouvoir sur le choix des intervenants”. Un support financier ça se retire lol
Hardest book to read:
3 - Ulysses
2 - Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale
1 - #CEA ‘s program
S’opposer à la fécondation in vitro, ce n’est pas très « pro-vie ».
New working paper.
if this is "nation-building", you can be anything!
Polls are bundled in 3-day windows and weighted by sample size.
2019 Federal.
2025 Ontario.
Mainstreet's infamous convergence with other pollsters' numbers in the last two weeks of an election.
While all pollsters are stable or see a slight drop for liberals, Mainstreet magically goes from +2PCC to +5PLC just before election day 🙃 #polcan
Polls are bundled in 3-day windows and weighted by sample size.
2019 Federal election.
Not as striking, but the pattern is still there.
2025 Ontario Numbers.
