I work at the intersection of economic theory and empirical method. The questions that interest me: what causes what, and what we can actually claim to know from observational data. The tools follow from the question, not the other way around. This site is an archive of that practice.
Hedonic OLS on 8,778 Montreal Airbnb listings shows the naive transit premium reverses sign once centrality enters: rail proximity is a centrality effect in disguise, and conditional on location, rail adjacency carries a slight price discount.
Economist. Previously at CIGI, Ontario Ministry of Health, and the Department of Economics, University of Waterloo. BA Mathematics and Economics, McGill University.