Robert McMillan
Contact information
Associate Professor of Economics, and Research Associate, NBER
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
Room 302 (3rd Floor)
150 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3G7 Canada
Tel: (416) 978-4190
Email: mcmillan 'at' chass.utoronto.ca
Teaching
Research
Research interests: Public Economics, Economics of Education, Environmental Economics, Urban Economics, Industrial Organization
Papers
- Competition, Parental Involvement, and Public School Performance, National Tax Association Proceedings (2000): 150-155
- What Drives Racial Segregation? joint with Patrick Bayer and Kim Rueben, Journal of Urban Economics (2004) 56(3): 514-535.
- Competition, Incentives, and Public School Productivity, Journal of Public Economics (2004) 88: 1871-1892. (Due to some administrative mishap, this version was never proof-read. A fully corrected version can be found in Journal of Public Economics (2005) 89: 1131-1154.)
- Bidding Behaviour in Competing Auctions: Evidence from eBay, joint with Mingli Zheng and Sajid Anwar, European Economic Review (2006) 50(2): 307-322.
- A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods, joint with Patrick Bayer and Fernando Ferreira, Journal of Political Economy (2007) 115(4): 588-638.
- Tiebout Sorting and Neighborhood Stratification, joint with Patrick Bayer, Journal of Public Economics (2012) 96: 1129-1143.
- Separate When Equal? Racial Inequality and Segregation, joint with Patrick Bayer and Hanming Fang, Journal of Urban Economics (2014) 82: 32-48.
- A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods, joint with Patrick Bayer, Alvin Murphy and Christopher Timmins, revised version of NBER Working Paper 17250. Econometrica (2016) 84(3): 893-942 [lead article].
- Estimating Racial Price Differentials in the Housing Market (2013), joint with Patrick Bayer, Marcus Casey, and Fernando Ferreira, revised version of NBER Working Paper 18069. Forthcoming, Journal of Urban Economics.
Working Papers
- Incentive Design in Education: an Empirical Analysis (2015), joint with Hugh Macartney and Uros Petronijevic, NBER Working Paper 21835.
- A Unifying Framework for Education Policy Analysis (2016), joint with Hugh Macartney and Uros Petronijevic, Working Paper.
- Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Evidence from California's Class Size Reduction (2017), joint with Michael Gilraine and Hugh Macartney.
- Measuring the Effects of Severe Air Pollution: Evidence from the UK Clean Air Act of 1956 (2017), joint with Joshua Murphy.
- Deforestation in the Amazon: Measuring the Effects of the 'Priority List' (2017) joint with Juliano Assuncao, Joshua Murphy, and Eduardo Souza Rodrigues.
- Taking Harder Courses in University: An Experimental Evaluation joint with Hammad Shaikh and Linda Wang, work in progress.
- An Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market, joint with Patrick Bayer and Kim Rueben, NBER Working Paper 10865.
- Choice and Competition in Local Education Markets (2010), joint with Patrick Bayer, revised version of NBER Working Paper 11802.
- Racial Sorting and Neighborhood Quality, joint with Patrick Bayer, NBER Working Paper 11813.
- Tiebout Sorting, Social Multipliers and the Demand for School Quality, joint with Patrick Bayer and Fernando Ferreira, NBER Working Paper 10871.
- An Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market: a Study of the Causes and Consequences of Residential Segregation, joint with Patrick Bayer and Kim Rueben
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