Kyle Boutilier

PhD 1st Year Student

Research Interests

Labour Economics
Health Economics
Public Economics

Contact details

Email: Kyle dot Boutilier at warwick dot ac dot uk
Advice and feedback hours: appointment via email

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About me

1st Year PhD Student (3rd 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 Pay and Hours Worked (with Carlo Perroni)

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)