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

Working Papers

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

• The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation.
  Winner of the 2007 NTA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Prize and 2008 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award
  

• Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds.
  Revise and resubmit at the Review of Economics and Statistics
• The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data.
  Second revised draft for the American Economic Review. Appendix. Data in ASCII, STATA.

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

Publications

• The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970-2000.
  Forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Economics. Appendix. Coverage in the Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Citizen.

Other Papers

• Does New York Pay Too Much in Federal Taxes Relative to Columbus?
  An expositional piece for the NTA Proceedings.

Teaching

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

Other Stuff

• Ranking of U.S. Cities by quality-of-life according to "Improving Quality-of-life Estimates across Cities"
• Amazon Lists: Favorite Economics & Econometrics Textbooks and Classics in Economic Thought.