I study behavioural public policy and Canadian politics. I focus on improving access to public services, especially employment programs. Why do Canadians who might benefit from these services not apply for them? What can governments do to improve take-up? I address these questions using quantitative methods (e.g. experiments, web-scraping, Machine Learning) and user experience design (e.g. interviews, community co-design).

Published

  • How do immigration policies affect voter support for low-skilled immigrants? Evidence from a survey experiment. International Migration Review. With Andrea Lawlor and Mireille Paquet. Available here.

  • Nudging increases take-up of employment services: Evidence from a large field experiment. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. With Jeff Dorion. Available here.

  • How Do We Know What We Know? Learning from Monte Carlo Simulations. With Andrew Q. Phillips, Guy D. Whitten, Mark Pickup, and Ali Kagalwala. Journal of Politics. Available here.

  • Behavioural Insights and Political Science. Canadian Journal of Political Science. With Andrea Lawlor. Available here.

  • Transformed-likelihood estimators for dynamic panel models with a very small T. Political Science Research and Methods. With Mark Pickup. Available here.

  • Ambiguous COVID-19 Messaging Increases Unsafe Socializing Intentions. Journal of Behavioural Public Administration. With Mark Pickup and J. Scott Matthews. Available here.

  • It's coming from inside the House (of Commons): Agenda control, accountability, and interest group lobbying in majoritarian parliaments. Governance. Available here.

  • The Influence of Cause and Sectional Group Lobbying on Government Responsiveness. Political Research Quarterly. With Mark Pickup and Heike Klüver. Available here.

  • Institutions, Incentives, and Policy Entrepreneurship. Policy Studies Journal. Available here.

Accepted

  • Does administrative burden influence support for a low-income childcare supplement? Evidence from a survey experiment. Canadian Journal of Political Science. With Yang Yang.

In Progress

  • Reducing unintentional non-compliance in government: Evidence from a large field experiment on records management behavior. With Christine Kormos.

  • Helping vulnerable youth access employment services in Canada. With Kurtis Boyer.

My public interest statement of disclosure is available here.