Kevin Milligan - Research Kevin Milligan ~ Department of Economics ~ University of British Columbia


Research

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CV

January 2010 (PDF)

Computer Code

Candian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) package here.
SHS Stata input files here.
NBER-ISS 5 Stata code here.

Journal Articles

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  • “The Report of the Expert Panel on Older Workers: How should public pensions be improved?” with Michael Baker.
    Accepted,Canadian Public Policy

  • "The Impact of the Tax and Transfer System on Canadian Income Inequality" with Marc Frenette and David Green.
    Forthcoming, Canadian Public Policy Details

  • "How household portfolios evolve after retirement: The effect of aging and health shocks" with Courtney Coile,
    Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 55, No. 2 (June 2009). Details

  • "Evidence from maternity leave expansions of the impact of maternal care on early child development," with Michael Baker, NBER Working Paper 13826.
    Forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources. Details

  • “Child benefits, maternal employment, and children’s health: Evidence from Canadian child benefit expansions,” with Mark Stabile.
    American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings Vol. 99, No. 2 (May 2009), pp. 128-132. Details

  • "The evolution of elderly poverty in Canada,"
    Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 34, No. 4 (November 2008). Details

  • "Campaign Spending Limits, Incumbent Spending, and Election Outcomes," with Marie Rekkas,
    Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 41, No. 4, (November, 2008). Details

  • "How does job-protected maternity leave affect mothers' employment?" with Michael Baker
    Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 26, No. 4 (October 2008). Details

  • "Improving the Labour Market Incentives of Canada's Public Pensions," with Tammy Schirle,
    Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 34, No. 3 (September 2008). Details

  • "Universal childcare, maternal labor supply, and family well-being" with Michael Baker and Jonathan Gruber
    Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 116, No. 4, (August 2008). Details

  • "Maternal Employment, Breastfeeding, and Health, " with Michael Baker,
    Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 27, No. 4, (July 2008), pp. 871-887. Details

  • "Incentive effects of social assistance: A regression discontinuity approach," with Thomas Lemieux,
    Journal of Econometrics , Vol. 142, No. 2 (February 2008), pp. 807-828. Details

  • "The tale of the tails: Canadian Income Inequality in the 1980s and 1990s" with Marc Frenette and David Green.
    Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 40, No. 3 (August 2007), pp. 734-764. Details

  • "The integration of child tax credits and welfare: Evidence from the Canadian National Child Benefit program" with Mark Stabile,
    Journal of Public Economics , Vol. 91, No. 1-2 (February, 2007), pp. 305-326. Details

  • "Lifecycle Asset Accumulation and Allocation in Canada,"
    Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 38, No. 3 (August, 2005), pp. 1057-1106. Details

  • "Subsidizing the Stork: New Evidence on Tax Incentives and Fertility"
    Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 87, No. 3 (August, 2005), pp. 539-555. Details

  • "Does Education Improve Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K." with Enrico Moretti and Philip Oreopoulos,
    Journal of Public Economics Vol. 88, No. 9-10 (August, 2004), pp. 1667-1695. Details

  • "The Retirement Incentive Effects of Canada's Income Security Programs" with Michael Baker and Jonathan Gruber,
    Canadian Journal of Economics , Vol. 36, No. 2 (May, 2003), pp. 261-290. Details

  • "How Do Contribution Limits Affect Contributions to Tax-Preferred Savings Accounts?"
    Journal of Public Economics Vol. 87, No. 2 (February 2003), pp. 253-281. Details

  • "Tax-preferred Savings Accounts and Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence on RRSP Participation,"
    Canadian Journal of Economics Vol. 35 (August, 2002), pp. 436-456. Details

    Other Publications

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  • "Working while receiving a pension: Will double dipping change the elderly labour market?" with Tammy Schirle. April, 2008. Details

  • "Simulating the Response to Reform of Canada's Income Security System," with Michael Baker and Jonathan Gruber, in David A. Wise and Jonathan Gruber (eds.) Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Fiscal Implications. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming. Details

  • "Of Beer and Popcorn: Federal Policy on Childcare and Child Benefits," in Charles M. Beach, Michael Smart, and Thomas A. Wilson (eds.) The 2006 Federal Budget: Rethinking Fiscal Priorities. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. Details

  • "What Happens to Household Portfolios After Retirement?" with Courtney Coile, Center for Retirement Research Issue Brief No. 56, November, 2006. Details

  • "What can we learn from Quebec's universal childcare program?" with Michael Baker and Jonathan Gruber, C.D. Howe Institute e-brief 25, February, 2006. Details

  • "Making it pay to work: Improving the incentives in Canada's Public Pension system" Commentary 218, C.D. Howe Institute. October, 2005. Details

  • "Who uses RESPs and why," in Charles M. Beach, Robin W. Boadway and R. Marvin McInnis (eds.) Higher Education in Canada, pp. 467-494. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. Details

  • “Income Security Programs and Retirement in Canada,” with Michael Baker and Jonathan Gruber, in Jonathan Gruber and David Wise (eds.) Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Details

  • “Some Considerations for Empirical Research on Tax Preferred Savings Accounts" National Tax Association Proceedings, 2002, pp. 278-282. Details

  • "Tax Preferences for Education Savings: Are RESPs Effective?” Commentary 174, C.D. Howe Institute. November, 2002. Details

  • "Quebec's Baby Bonus: Can Public Policy Raise Fertility?" Backgrounder, C.D. Howe Institute. January, 2002. Details

  • "What's the cost of the foreign property limit in Canada's pension rules?" with Michael Smart, Policy Options Vol. 21 (March, 2000), pp. 36-40. Details

    Working Papers

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  • "The report of the Expert Panel on Older Workers: How should public pensions be improved?" with Michael Baker. Details

  • "Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions," with Mark Stabile, NBER Working Paper No. 14624.

  • "Retirement Income Security and Wellbeing in Canada" with Michael Baker and Jonathan Gruber, manuscript, December 2005. Details

  • "Regional Grants as Pork-Barrel Politics," with Michael Smart, CES-ifo Working Paper No. 1453, March 2005. Details

  • "Do inter-district spillovers affect pork-barrel spending? Theory and evidence" October, 2003. Details

  • "Restricting Foreign Investment: Estimating the Costs of Canada's Foreign Property Rule," with Michael Smart, January, 2000. Details

  • "Savings and Tax Incentives: Semiparametric Estimation of the Household Savings Impact of RRSPs," July, 1998. Details

    Contract and government reports

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  • "Public Pensions and Retirement: International Evidence in the Canadian Context," with Tammy Schirle, Skills Research Initiative Working Paper No. 2006-A13, 2006. Details

  • "Capital Gains Taxation: Recent Empirical Evidence," with Jack Mintz and Thomas A. Wilson, September, 1999. Prepared for the Heward Stikeman Institute. Details

  • "Do Tax-Sheltered Savings Crowd Out Other Savings? Implications, Evidence, and Explanations," August, 1998. Prepared for the Department of Finance. Details


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