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
Behavioural Insights and Political Science. Canadian Journal of Political Science. With Andrea Lawlor. 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.
Transformed-likelihood estimators for dynamic panel models with a very small T. Political Science Research and Methods. With Mark Pickup. Available here.
Accepted
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.
Nudging increases take-up of employment services: Evidence from a large field experiment. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. With Jeff Dorion.
Under Review
Does administrative burden influence support for a low-income childcare supplement? Evidence from a survey experiment. With Yang Yang.
In Progress
Simplification increases employee cooperation with management: Evidence from a large field experiment. With Christine Kormos.
Helping vulnerable youth access employment services in Canada. With Kurtis Boyer.
Does financial scarcity reduce take-up of employment services? Evidence from a survey experiment.
My public interest statement of disclosure is available here.