Current Work
My current work is connected by an interest in institutional research: using rich administrative and institutional data to support decision-making, improve operations, and address broader empirical questions in economics and public policy. The opportunity to work outside the Department of Economics over the past decade introduced me to new questions, new collaborators, and new sources of data. My current work reflects these experiences and has evolved into three complementary research agendas at the intersection of labour economics, higher education, and personnel economics.
- Opportunity costs of PhD education (with Boriana Miloucheva and Natalia Vigezzi): examining the educational, career, and earnings trajectories of doctoral graduates in Canada using linked administrative and census data. The project explores questions surrounding completion, attrition, opportunity costs, and the labour market outcomes of doctoral education. See the working paper.
- Financial aid and enrolment management (with Angelique Saweczko and Annabel Thornton): applying a strategic enrolment management lens to institutional financial aid design, with a particular focus on how funding structures affect access, affordability, student decision-making, and student success.
- Economics of defence and military personnel: an emerging research agenda that brings together longstanding interests in military affairs with research in labour and personnel economics and recent work in higher education and strategic enrolment management. Current interests include recruitment, retention, compensation, and career and post-service trajectories in the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Armed Forces, as well as the intersection of military service, education, and civilian labour markets.