Kelly Foley
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
University of Saskatchewan
email: kelly.foley at usask.ca
twitter: @foley_kelly
I work and live on Treaty Six Territory and the homeland of the Métis.
My University of Saskatchewan Curriculum Vitae (abridged) : CV Updated April 2020
Forthcoming and Working papers:
The Distributional Impacts of Active Labor Market Programs for Indigenous Populations – with Donna Feir and Maggie E.C. Jones (forthcoming in the AEA Papers and Proceedings)
Accompanying online appendix
January 3, 2021, at 12:15 p.m. ET, this paper is a part of a panel, "Indigenous Nations Economic Development Strategies: Policies and Outcomes" live streamed from the American Economic Association 2021 Meetings, and can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe-F8O3I4-Smglo8NJUlaBA
Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programming for Indigenous Populations (email for latest draft) – with Donna Feir and Maggie E.C. Jones
Works in Progress:
Who Benefits from Teacher Discretion in Grading? Joint with Maggie E.C. Jones
When to raise the stakes? The effects of shifting high stakes tests across grade levels. Joint with Maggie E.C. Jones
The effects of mandatory physical education on high school outcomes. Joint with Maggie E.C. Jones and Umut Oguzoglu
How does increasing choice and flexibility over academic requirements affect students on the margin of dropping out of high school? Joint with Maggie E.C. Jones and Umut Oguzoglu
High School Math and Post-Secondary Schooling in Canada: What can we learn from inter-provincial comparisons?
Published Papers:
Admissions Constraints and the Decision to Delay University, Joint with Fane Groes. Forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
Supplemental Appendices for "Admissions Constraints and Decision to Delay University"
Programs and information about Accessing Data--zip file
The Gender Gap in University Enrollment: Do parents play a role beyond investing in skills? Published in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2019, 52(2): 441-489.
Why More Education Will Not Solve Rising Inequality (and May Make It Worse) Joint with David Green
Working paper version: Ability, Parental Valuations of Education and the High School Drop out Decision Joint with Giovanni Gallipoli and David Green Published in Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(4): 906-944.
On-line appendix, for "Can Neighbourhoods Change the Decisions of Youth on the Margins of University Participation". Canadian Journal of Economics, 2012, 45(1):167-188
Pandemic Policy Briefs:
In response to the economic crisis generated by the Coronavirus pandemic, Christine Neill (WLU) and I have written two policy briefs discussing how the pandemic will affect on-going Post-Secondary students, and recent graduates, including a number of policy recommendations. Updated April 17, 2020.
These pieces are published in the School of Public Policy Paper Series at the University of Calgary School of Public Policy
Presentations: