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UBC Economics @ubcvse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Meet the Vancouver School of Economics’ 2026/27 PhD job market candidates! View their profiles here: economics.ubc.ca/people/phd-j...

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

//Brag Alert// J'ai fini premier (triple égalité) dans le pool électoral de @info.radio-canada.ca Dans quelle section de mon CV je met ça?

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You might want to take a look at @paulgp.com 's blog posts on using LLMs in research/teaching paulgp.com/2026/04/27/a...

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Using AI in Research and Teaching: A Practical Guide

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Or people who studied outside Quebec never understood how good it is.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The problem isn’t the system, it’s the systematic funding deficit. I’m pretty sure it’s harder to get into any Polytechnique program than getting into CEGEP science program. If CEGEP aren’t filtering students, the universities will. They also have capacity constraints…

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Mettre des cibles de X% de logement "abordable" suggère aussi qu'on est bien content du (100-X)% de logement inabordable 🙃

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 16/03/2026

My attempt at articulating why I think LLMs are a clear net positive for all research, and it's a mistake to ignore it despite private concerns: paulgp.com/2026/03/16/r...

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Research in the Time of AI

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I've been back in Québec for 3 months and haven't followed the anglo media. Québécois' opinion on Don Cherry is pretty unanimous: a vulgar and outrageous man who's never won a cup. Is anyone in English Canada actually outraged, or have we collectively decided his legacy doesn't count as a problem?

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Matias Cortes @cortesecon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Congratulations to the @cleforum.bsky.social Best Paper Prize finalists: @amer5.bsky.social (@econuoft.bsky.social), @plbeauregard.bsky.social (@ubcvse.bsky.social) and Sara Benetti (@ubcvse.bsky.social)! The grand prize winner will be announced at the CLEF Conference in Montreal on April 17-18

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Your counterfactual might be unknowable, but your story is exactly why I think this research matters. Thanks for sharing this!

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Sophia from the @stone-centre-ubc.bsky.social wrote a feature about my research on social housing. Read it here: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/pierre-loup-...

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UBC

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

What he believed in: buying/building pipelines, but with a different leader.

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Applied Young Economists' Webinar @ayew.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🎉 We are thrilled to kick off our 2025 Econ Job Market Vlog! Our first featured JMC is Sébastien Montpetit (@warwickecon.bsky.social), whose research focuses on public and gender economics. 🎥 Check out his JMP video to learn more about his work! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qogl...

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Sébastien Montpetit | Econ Job Market Vlog | AYEW

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

9/Policy takeaway: child-centred returns are real and sizable—but tied to parents’ reduced work. Designs that strictly minimize short-run adult work disincentives risk blunting child gains; designs that allow (or modestly encourage) time reallocation at home seem to pay off for the next generation.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

8/ Welfare: MVPF of one extra year of social housing for a 1-parent-1-child family = 1.43. Partial MVPFs that examine only parents or only children misclassify the policy as undesirable; the value lies in the bigenerational incidence. Net benefits become apparent in a comprehensive calculation.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

7/ Instead, the previously underinvestigated channel of parental time investments is most consistent with my results. The randomness in displacement distance generates quasi-exogenous variation in labour-supply reductions. Longer moves → larger reductions in parents’ work → better child outcome.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

6/ Mechanisms considered in the literature fail to explain the observed pattern. Entry moves are, if anything, to slightly worse place effects (à la Chetty–Hendren). Net-of-housing disposable resources change little; pure income channel is unlikely to explain children’s sizable long-run gains.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

4/ I then use an exposure design to measure the impact on long-term child outcomes, comparing those who enter earlier vs. later. Oversubscribed programs and long waitlists, make timing manipulation virtually impossible. Earlier entry → higher adult earnings, more post-sec, less safety-net use.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

3/ These far exceed what “pure income” windfalls predict. A time-allocation model—where RGI (1) lowers rent, (2) adds an implicit earnings tax, and (3) insures against earnings risk—rationalizes the large labour-supply response. The insurance channel explains about half.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

2/ I begin by studying the impact of RGI on adults using a matched event study framework. RGI entry cuts parents’ labour earnings by $2,400 (~20%). Employment falls 6 p.p., and hours drop 7.3% among job stayers. Meanwhile, yearly rent falls by ~$3,500.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

1/ Hi #EconSky, I’m a #EconJobMarket candidate from @ubcvse.bsky.social I study the effect of Rent-Geared-to-Income (RGI) housing in Toronto & Montréal using parent–child-linked administrative tax data. Thread below🧵

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UBC Economics @ubcvse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Meet the Vancouver School of Economics’ 2025/26 PhD job market candidates! View their profiles here: economics.ubc.ca/people/phd-j... @plbeauregard.bsky.social

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

How Universal Child Care Could Change New York's Economy? Our paper on Québec's childcare program is featured in this NYT article. (with Sébastien Montpetit and Luisa Carrer) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

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How Universal Child Care Could Change the Economy

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Our paper is featured in this month’s NBER Digest! www.nber.org/digest/20250...

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Unpacking the Union Wage Premium

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Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We are excited to announce the following new AEs with expertise in IO, labor, and applied micro: Francesco Decarolis (Bocconi University), Thomas Lemieux (VSE), Mathias Reynaert (TSE), Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues (University of Toronto), and Andrew Sweeting (Maryland University)

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

“On finance, mais on a vraiment aucun pouvoir sur le choix des intervenants”. Un support financier ça se retire lol

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Hardest book to read: 3 - Ulysses 2 - Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale 1 - #CEA ‘s program

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

S’opposer à la fécondation in vitro, ce n’est pas très « pro-vie ».

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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

if this is "nation-building", you can be anything!

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Polls are bundled in 3-day windows and weighted by sample size.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Mainstreet's infamous convergence with other pollsters' numbers in the last two weeks of an election. While all pollsters are stable or see a slight drop for liberals, Mainstreet magically goes from +2PCC to +5PLC just before election day 🙃 #polcan

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Polls are bundled in 3-day windows and weighted by sample size.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

2019 Federal election. Not as striking, but the pattern is still there.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Plus de pétrole et plus de pipelines; because it’s 2025 comme dirait l’autre #polcan

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Je vais pouvoir regarder le match des #habs sans remords

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Ce n’est pas ce que l’expression « des pauvres » veut dire. On entend ici « une version cheap de Marie-Antoinette ».

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

« Ouain, mais ce sont des top guns »

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I thought hours might have increased to cope with increasing cost of living - because there's no reason to believe wages changed for that group - but no. Actual hours are also flat across those two years.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

That's my sense. Obviously, we wouldn't expect what I did to map 1-to-1 to the T1 numbers, but I'd expect some movement in the same direction.

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Pierre-Loup Beauregard @plbeauregard.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Here, I'm using pumf LFS, pooling all months together for both years. Labour force participation did not change between 2022 and 2023.

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