David Yves Albouy (pronounced al-bwee) is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His interests are in public and urban economics, as well as in political economy and labor economics.
David Albouy was born in Paris, France, and raised in the Washington D.C. area. He received his B.A. from McGill University in 2000 in History, Philosophy, and Economic...
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David Yves Albouy (pronounced al-bwee) is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His interests are in public and urban economics, as well as in political economy and labor economics.
David Albouy was born in Paris, France, and raised in the Washington D.C. area. He received his B.A. from McGill University in 2000 in History, Philosophy, and Economics. He then earned an M.A. in Economics from Yale University in 2002, and a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Albouy is a citizen of the United States of America and France and is a native speaker of English and French.
Albouy analyzed the wage gap between native English (Anglophone) and French (Francophone) speakers in Canada from 1971 to 2001. He finds that the wage gap in the province of Quebec was closed by lowering the wages of Anglophones as well as by raising the wages of Francophones, and therefore...
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