Kelly Foley

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

     Abridged Curriculum Vitae: CV  Updated May 2025

Working papers and Works in Progress:

• Heterogenous Returns to Active Labour Market Programming for Indigenous Populations– with Donn. L. Feir and Maggie E.C. Jones  Accepted at Journal of Human Resources

  • • Online Appendices.

    • Working paper version contains additional content referenced in accepted version: Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programming for Indigenous Populations – with Donn. L. Feir and Maggie E.C. Jones  

      • IZA Version here

• Unpacking the Countercyclicality of Post-Secondary Enrollment in the United States – with Alena Bičáková, Matias Cortes, Jacopo Mazza and Peter McHenry 

• The Occupational Ladder: Implications for Wage Growth and Wage Gaps over the Life Cycle–with Matias Cortes and Henry Siu

• Enrolling in Bad Times: College Persistence and Labor Market Outcomes – with Alena Bičáková, Matias Cortes, Jacopo Mazza and Peter McHenry  (email for current version) 

Selected Publications:

• Education and inequality: an international perspective.– with Patrick Bennett, David A. Green and Kjell G. Salvanes. Fiscal Studies, 45(3): 429-454. 

• Canadian inequality over the last 40 years: common and contrary variations on universal themes– with David A. Green and W. Craig Riddell. Fiscal Studies, 45(2): 119-130. 

• Inequality in Canada: 1976-2022– with David A. Green and W. Craig Riddell, in Institute for Fiscal Studies Country Studies: Inequalities in Europe and North America. A parallel study to the IFS Deaton Review 

• The Distributional Impacts of Active Labor Market Programs for Indigenous Populations  – with Donn. L. 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)