Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

 

The Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP), formerly the CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity, has a broad mandate to study and provide policy advice on issues related to human capital and productivity. In addition to publishing a working paper series, the CHCP sponsors conferences, seminars, and workshops on human capital and productivity. Papers issued before 2016 were published as "CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity Working Papers."

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Submissions from 2023

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2023-01 The Insurance Implications of Government Student Loan Repayment Schemes, Martin Gervais, Qian Liu, and Lance Lochner

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2023-02 Adverse Selection Among Early Adopters and Unraveling Innovation, Rory McGee

Submissions from 2022

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2022-1 The Role of Non-Pecuniary Considerations: Location Decisions of College Graduates from Low Income Backgrounds, Yifan Gong, Todd Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner, and Yuxi Yao

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2022-2 A Task-Based Theory of Occupations with Multidimensional Heterogeneity, Sergio Ocampo

Submissions from 2021

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2021-1 Four Decades of Canadian Earnings Inequality and Dynamics across Workers and Firms, Audra Bowlus, Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant, Huju Liu, Lance Lochner, and Youngmin Park

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2021-2 Why Do Couples and Singles Save During Retirement?, Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, John Bailey Jones, and Rory McGee

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2021-3 Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change: The Canonical Model Revisited, Audra J. Bowlus, Lance Lochner, Chris Robinson, and Eda Suleymanoglu

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2021-4 Innis Lecture: Return on Student Loans in Canada, Lance Lochner, Qian Liu, and Martin Gervais

Submissions from 2020

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2020-1 The Millennials' Transition from School-to-Work, Audra J. Bowlus and Yuet-Yee Linda wong

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2020-2 Prices, Profits, Proxies, and Production, Victor H. Aguiar, Roy Allen, and Nail Kashaev

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2020-3 Optimal Contracting with Altruistic Agents: A Structural Model of Medicare Payments for Dialysis Drugs, Martin Gaynor, Nirav Mehta, and Seth Richards-Shubik

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2020-4 Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments, Elizabeth Caucutt, Lance Lochner, Joseph Mullins, and Youngmin Park

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2020-5 Returns to Skill and the Evolution of Skills for Older Men, Qian Liu, Lance Lochner, Youngmin Park, and Youngki Shin

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2020-6 The EITC and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?, Jacob Bastian and Lance Lochner

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2020-7 Marriage, Children, and Labor Supply: Beliefs and Outcomes, Yifan Gong, Todd Stinebrickner, and Ralph Stinebrickner

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2020-8 Perceived and Actual Option Values of College Enrollment, Yifan Gong, Todd Stinebrickner, and Ralph Stinebrickner

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2020-9 Self-Employment and Development, Juan Herreno and Sergio Ocampo

Submissions from 2018

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2018-1 On the Identification of Gross Output Production Functions, Amit Gandhi, Salvador Navarro, and David Rivers

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2018-2 Parental Support, Savings and Student Loan Repayment, Lance Lochner, Todd Stinebrickner, and Utku Suleymanoglu

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2018-3 Job Tasks and the Gender Wage Gap among College Graduates, Todd Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner, and Paul Sullivan

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2018-4 Time-Use and Academic Peer Effects in College, Nirav Mehta, Ralph Stinebrickner, and Todd Stinebrickner

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2018-5 Uncertainty about Future Income: Initial Beliefs and Resolution During College, Yifan Gong, Todd Stinebrickner, and Ralph Stinebrickner

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2018-6 Dynamics of Deterrence: A Macroeconomic Perspective on Punitive Justice Policy, Bulent Guler and Amanda Michaud

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2018-7 The Disability Option: Labor Market Dynamics with Macroeconomic and Health Risks, Amanda Michaud and David Wiczer

Submissions from 2017

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2017-01 Targeting the Wrong Teachers? Linking Measurement with Theory to Evaluate Teacher Incentive Schemes, Nirav Mehta