Kyle Boutilier

About me

2nd Year PhD Student (4th year MRes/PhD) with a strong interest in labour, health, and public economics. When I’m not busy, I love hiking, travelling, and volunteering.

Work in Progress

How does informal elderly care respond to the price of home care?

This paper studies how the price of home care affects substitution between market-based elderly care (primarily home care and nursing homes) and informal care. I exploit the US Department of Labor’s imposition of the Home Care Rule in 2015 as a source of exogenous variation for the price of home care. I use data from the American Time Use Survey and construct a state-level dataset for the price of home care. I find that a 1% increase in the price of home care leads to a 0.82 percentage point increase in the probability of providing informal care – off a base rate of 13.1% – and an increase of 0.64 hours of informal care per week. Substitution toward nursing homes is limited. Investigating heterogeneity, price responsiveness is stronger among older and lower-income informal caregivers, suggesting an unequal distribution of the informal care burden.

Performance Incentives and Part-time Work (with Carlo Perroni)

The Life Cycle Impact of Informal Caregiving

Immigration and Social Care: Evidence from England

Publications

• Assessing global potential output growth and the US neutral rate: April 2022 (with Thomas J. Carter, Xin Scott Chen, Eshini Ekanayake, Louis Poirier, Peter Shannon, Akash Uppal, Lin Xiang). Bank of Canada Staff Analytical Note, 2022.
• The Impact of Mask Mandates on the Trade-Off Between GDP and COVID-19 Mortality (with Aaron Leonard). CEPR Covid Economics, 2021.

Teaching

• 2024/2025: EC961 (MSc Pre-Sessional Maths and Stats), EC204 (term 1), EC203 (term 2), EC9A1 (term 1), EC9A2 (term 2)
• 2023/2024: EC961 (MSc Pre-Sessional Maths and Stats), EC204 (term 1), EC203 (term 2)