Kelly Foley

I work and live on Treaty Six Territory and the homeland of the Métis.

My University of Saskatchewan Curriculum Vitae (abridged) : CV Updated July 2021

Working papers and Works in Progress:

• Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programming for Indigenous Populations (email for latest draft) – with Donna Feir and Maggie E.C. Jones

• 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 Western Canada: What can we learn from inter-provincial comparisons? Joint with Dionne Pohler.

Published Papers:

• The Distributional Impacts of Active Labor Market Programs for Indigenous Populations (email for latest draft)– with Donna Feir and Maggie E.C. Jones in the AEA Papers and Proceedings 111:216-220.

  • Accompanying online appendix

  • This paper was part of a panel, "Indigenous Nations Economic Development Strategies: Policies and Outcomes" that was live streamed from the American Economic Association 2021 Meetings, and can be viewed here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe-F8O3I4-Smglo8NJUlaBA

• Admissions Constraints and the Decision to Delay University, Joint with Fane Groes. Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 123(2): 487-507.

  • 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.

  • Supplemental Appendices for "The gender gap in university enrollment"

• 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.

  • Code via Giovanni's github and Read me file

• 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

• Post-Secondary Financial Aid the Pandemic

• The Pandemic and Recent Post-Secondary Graduates

Presentations:

• Socioeconomic differences in youth's reported expectations for further education (Slides)