Associate Professor
Department of Economics
University of Saskatchewan
email: kelly.foley at usask.ca
Bluesky: @kellyfoley.bsky.social
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
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.
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: