Contact Information

Department of Economics
611 Tappan St
351C Lorch Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220

Tel: (734) 763-9619
Fax: (734) 764-2769

albouy@umich.edu

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation.
  Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming August 2009.
  Coverage in the NBER Digest and by Fox Business. Data and dofiles.

• The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970-2000.
  Canadian Journal of Economics 41 (4), November 2008, pp. 1211-1238. Appendix. Coverage in the Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Citizen.

Working Papers

• The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data.
  3rd revision requested at the American Economic Review. Data in ASCII, STATA.
• Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds.

Revision requested at The Review of Economics and Statistics
• What are Cities Worth? Land Rents, Local Productivity, and the Value of Amenities.
  Coverage in US News and World Report. Click here for a full list.

• Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-life Estimates across Cities.

• Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? A New Perspective with Evidence from the U.S. Senate.

Other Papers

• Does New York Pay Too Much in Federal Taxes Relative to Columbus?
  Proceedings of the National Tax Association 100th Annual Conference on Taxation, 2008, 245-249.

Teaching

• ECON 481: Government Expenditures
• ECON 487: Urban Economics
• ECON 684: Government Revenues - first half.

Awards

• 2008 Robert Mundell Prize.
• 2008 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award.
• 2008 AREUEA Dissertation Award.
• 2007 NTA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Prize.

Other Stuff

• Amazon Lists: Favorite Economics & Econometrics Textbooks and Classics in Economic Thought.