​Publications and Accepted Papers
"Improved Market Access and Indigenous Land Loss: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century US Railroad Expansion" with Jeff Chan and Azim Essaji. AEA Papers and Proceedings (Conditionally Accepted). 

“Indigenous Nations at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Evidence from the 1901 Canadian Census and the Report of the Department of Indian Affairs for 1900” with Donn Feir, Kris Inwood, and Maggie Jones, Historical Methods (Conditionally Accepted).

“Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths” with Jamein Cunningham. (IZA Discussion Paper No. 14208, March 2021.) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (Forthcoming)

• Coverage from NPR Planet Money, Washington Post, the New Yorker, Bloomberg, the Economist, Vox, Vice, and CBC​

"Railroads, Land Cessions, and Indigenous Nations: Evidence from Canada" with Jeff Chan and Azim Essaji, Canadian Journal of Economics, 58(3), 2025.

“The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains” with Donn Feir and Maggie Jones. Review of Economics Studies, May 2024 (NBER Working paper 30368, IZA Working Paper 15498, CICD Working Paper 2019-01) 

• Coverage from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, MinnPost, The Bulletin, CBC, Conversable Economist, Inside Science, Reddit
• EBHS Fred Bateman Prize Winner

"Policing, Lethal Force, and the Struggle for Equal Treatment" Canadian Public Policy, September 2023

"Policing and Indigenous Civilian Deaths in Canada" with Drake Rushford and David Weaver. Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, August 2022

“Don't Shoot! The Impact of Historical African American Protest on Police Killings of Civilians” with Jamein Cunningham. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, March 2021

• Coverage from NPR The World, the New York Times​

“Law Enforcement Officers' Bills of Rights and Police Violence” with Jamein Cunningham, Donn Feir, Matt Harvey, and Abdul Rad. AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

“Expenditures, Efficiency and Distribution: Advice for the 43rd Canadian Parliament" with Trevor Tombe. Canadian Tax Journal, April 2020

“A Ferguson Effect, the Drug Epidemic, Both, or Neither? Explaining the 2015 and 2016 U.S. Homicide Rises by Race and Ethnicity” with Shytierra Gaston and Jamein Cunningham. Homicide Studies, May 2019 

“The Effects of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program on Riots and the Wealth of African Americans” with Jamein Cunningham. The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(6): 144-157 October 2018 

• Coverage from the Chicago Policy Review

“Return to the Homeland? The Impact of the Great Recession on Employment Outcomes and Labor Mobility for Native Americans” with Donn Feir. Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 1(2-3): 60-74 September 2018

• Coverage from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth

“Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: Evidence form the 1960s Civil Disturbances” with Jamein Cunningham. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 108: 217-221 May 2018 

“The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Ethnic Stratification in Africa” with Warren Whatley. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 101(3): 571-76 May 2011. (Online Appendix)

“The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies” with Warren Whatley in Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time, ed. P. Rhode, J.Rosenbloom and D. Weiman, 86-110. Stanford: Stanford University Press. January 2011. 

Papers Under Review
"Railroads, Market Access, and Indigenous Land Dispossession" with Jeff Chan and Azim Essaji. SSRN Working Paper 5421538.

“Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Historical Treaties” with Donn Feir and Maggie Jones. NBER Working Paper No. 31713.

"Assimilative Education Policy and Indigenous Peoples in Canada, 1900-1939," with Abubakr Ayesh, Donn Feir, Maggie Jones and Sam Shipley

“Illuminating Economic Development in Indigenous Communities” with Donn Feir and Maggie Jones. University of Victoria Department Discussion Paper DDP1806, September 2018. (Revision requested at the Canadian Journal of Economics)

Working Papers (email for latest draft)
"Police Protections, Productivity, and Crime: Evidence from Law Enforcement Officers' Bills of Rights," with Jamein Cunningham, Matthew Harvey, and Abdul Rad

“Colonization Through Treaties: Evidence from Canada” with Donn Feir and Maggie Jones.

“Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Canadian Economics Profession” with Elizabeth Dhuey, Maya Povhe, and Viet Vu.


Works in Progress
"Race and Randomization," with Dania Francis, Damon Jones, Corrine Low, and Angelino Viceisza, proposal revision resubmitted at Journal of Economic Literature

"The Cowichan Decision, Aboriginal Right and Title, and Private Property," with Deaglan Jakob, Maggie Jones, and Yue Yu

"First Nations Fiscal Capacity", with Joshua Thomas, Aashay Tripathi, and Kunio Tsuyhara

"Additions to Reserve and Indigenous Economic Development," with Jeff Chan and Azim Essaji
Essaji

"The Impact of Registered Indian Status: Evidence from Bill C-31," with Maggie Jones, Catherine Michaud-Leclerc, and Drake Rushford

"Economic Security and Traditional Indigenous Harvesting Practices", with Andrew Dickens and Taylor Wright

"Residential Schools and Church Finance" with Nicolas Duquette

"The Impact of Horse Adoption on Native Americans" with David Cuberes, Donn Feir, Motohiro Kumagai, and Sadia Mansoor 

“First Nations Policing, Crime, and the Use of Lethal Force” with Jamein Cunningham, Sara Wray Enns, and Drake Rushford.

"West Indians in New York City, 1900-1950: Convergence, Divergence, and Economic Mobility," with Alexander Persaud and Jerome Lyons

Resting Papers
“Labour Law Enforcement During World War II and the Growth of the US Trade Union Movement” 

“Did the War on Poverty Stop the 1960s Race Riots?”

• Coverage from Bloomberg