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Working Papers

2021

1. Influenza Pandemics and Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Recent Economic History
   Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics

2020

2. Spend Less, Get More? Explaining Health Spending and Outcome Differences Between Canada and Italy
   Working Paper series, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis
   Also in Working Papers, Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Economics (2019)
   See also Journal Article Spend Less, Get More? Explaining Health Spending and Outcome Differences Between Canada and Italy, Review of Economic Analysis, Digital Initiatives at the University of Waterloo Library (2020) (2020)

2018

3. Economic Growth and the Public Sector: A Comparison of Canada and Italy, 1870-2013
   Working Paper series, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Economic Growth and the Public Sector: A Comparison of Canada and Italy, 1870-2013, Review of Economic Analysis, Digital Initiatives at the University of Waterloo Library (2018) View citations (2) (2018)
4. Filling the Gap: Long Run Canadian Wealth Inequality in International Context
   University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics
5. The Determinants of Public Health Expenditures: Comparing Canada and Spain
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
6. The Shifting Scully Curve: International Evidence from 1870 to 2013
   Working Paper series, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis View citations (2)

2017

7. Economic Growth and the Public Sector: A Comparison of Canada and Italy, 1870†2013
   Working Papers, Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2024

1. Influenza pandemics and macroeconomic fluctuations 1871–2016
   Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 2024, 18, (2), 405-451
   Also in Cliometrica, 2024, 18, (2), 405-451 (2024)

2022

2. Does economic inequality breed murder? An empirical investigation of the relationship between economic inequality and homicide rates in Canadian provinces and CMAs
   Empirical Economics, 2022, 62, (6), 2951-2988 View citations (3)

2021

3. Finances of the Nation: The Evolution of Health Expenditures in Canada, 1926-2019
   Canadian Tax Journal, 2021, 69, (3), 889-920
4. Long Run Canadian Wealth Inequality in International Context
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67, (1), 134-164 View citations (4)

2020

5. Spend Less, Get More? Explaining Health Spending and Outcome Differences Between Canada and Italy
   Review of Economic Analysis, 2020, 12, (4), 403-438
   See also Working Paper Spend Less, Get More? Explaining Health Spending and Outcome Differences Between Canada and Italy, Working Paper series (2020) (2020)
6. The shifting Scully curve: international evidence from 1871 to 2016
   Applied Economics, 2020, 52, (39), 4263-4283 View citations (1)

2018

7. Economic Growth and the Public Sector: A Comparison of Canada and Italy, 1870-2013
   Review of Economic Analysis, 2018, 10, (3), 221-243 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Economic Growth and the Public Sector: A Comparison of Canada and Italy, 1870-2013, Working Paper series (2018) View citations (6) (2018)

2017

8. Value for money: an evaluation of health spending in Canada
   International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2017, 17, (3), 289-310 View citations (4)

2016

9. All equal in the sight of God: economic inequality and religion in the early twentieth century
   European Review of Economic History, 2016, 20, (1), 23-45
10. Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada. By Douglas McCalla. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. Pp. xv, 296. $100.00, cloth; $34.95, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 2016, 76, (1), 254-256
11. Wealth Distribution and the Canadian Middle Class: Historical Evidence and Policy Implications
    Canadian Public Policy, 2016, 42, (2), 132-151 View citations (3)

2015

12. The evolution of financial intermediation: Evidence from 19th-century Ontario microdata
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015, 48, (3), 963-987 View citations (2)
    Also in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2015, 48, (3), 963-987 (2015) View citations (1)

2014

13. Physician numbers as a driver of provincial government health spending in Canadian health policy
    Health Policy, 2014, 115, (1), 18-35 View citations (7)

2013

14. Women, wealth and economic change: An assessment of the impact of women's property law in Wentworth County, Ontario, 1872–1927
    Explorations in Economic History, 2013, 50, (2), 285-307 View citations (1)

2010

15. The sustainability of public health expenditures: evidence from the Canadian federation
    The European Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 11, (6), 569-584 View citations (13)

2009

16. Policy choice or economic fundamentals: what drives the public–private health expenditure balance in Canada?
    Health Economics, Policy and Law, 2009, 4, (1), 29-53 View citations (5)
17. The Fiscal Sustainability of Alberta's Public Health Care System
    SPP Research Papers, 2009, 2, (2) View citations (3)

2008

18. Wealth accumulation motives: evidence from the probate records of Ontario, 1892 and 1902
    Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 2008, 2, (2), 143-171 View citations (2)

2006

19. Is it Better to Live in a Basement, an Attic or to Get your own Place? Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Institutional Change for Northwestern Ontario
    Canadian Public Policy, 2006, 32, (2), 173-196 View citations (1)

2005

20. Does testing for prostate-specific antigen contribute to declining prostate cancer mortality?
    The European Journal of Health Economics, 2005, 6, (4), 298-308
21. The macro determinants of health expenditure in the United States and Canada: assessing the impact of income, age distribution and time
    Health Policy, 2005, 71, (1), 23-42 View citations (70)

2004

22. Resource boom and bust, 1885–1920: regional wealth evidence from probate records
    Australian Economic History Review, 2004, 44, (1), 52-78 View citations (1)

2002

23. Wealth and the demand for life insurance: evidence from Ontario, 1892
    Explorations in Economic History, 2002, 39, (4), 446-469 View citations (9)

2001

24. Public Homecare Expenditures in Canada
    Canadian Public Policy, 2001, 27, (3), 313-333

2000

25. The determinants of the public-private mix in Canadian health care expenditures: 1975-1996
    Health Policy, 2000, 52, (2), 87-112 View citations (12)

1999

26. Using alternative methods to estimate the determinants of cross-border trips
    Applied Economics, 1999, 31, (1), 77-88 View citations (2)

1998

27. Evidence on the determinants of Canadian provincial government health expenditures: 1965-1991
    Journal of Health Economics, 1998, 17, (2), 211-228 View citations (104)
28. Wealth Accumulation and the Life-Cycle in Economic History: Implications of Alternative Approaches to Data
    Explorations in Economic History, 1998, 35, (3), 296-324 View citations (8)

1997

29. The Determinants of the Wealth and Asset Holding in Nineteenth-Century Canada: Evidence from Microdata
    The Journal of Economic History, 1997, 57, (4), 907-934 View citations (10)

Books

2018

1. The Evolution and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in the North Atlantic Anglo-Sphere, 1668–2013
   Springer Books, Springer View citations (2)

Chapters

2024

1. Cliometrics of Health Spending
   Springer

2018

2. The Decline of Manufacturing in Canada: Resource Curse, Productivity Malaise or Natural Evolution?
   Springer