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Michael Veall

Department Chair
Professor
Ph.D. MIT 1981                          
Department of Economics
Kenneth Taylor Hall, Rm 427/435
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140 ext. 24591
905-521-8232 (fax)
veall@mcmaster.ca 
    

Personal Webpage: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/veall/

Research Interests:   Applied Econometrics, Public Economics, Population Economics, Health Economics

Recent Research Papers

M.R. Veall, "The Distribution of Seniors' Income in Canada, 1992-2005", forthcoming in M. Abbott, C. Beach, R. Boadway and J. MacKinnon (eds.) Retirement Policy Issues in Canada, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, McGill-Queens University Press, 2009.

M.R. Veall, "Canadian Seniors and the Low-Income Measure", Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, November 2008. (special issue "Private Pensions and Income Security in Old Age: An Uncertain Future" edited by T.F. Crossley and B.G. Spencer and sponsored by the SEDAP research program)

E. Saez and M.R. Veall, "The Evolution of High Incomes in North America: Lessons from Canadian Evidence," American Economic Review, 2005.  (Winner of 2005 Purvis Prize of $10,000 presented for a work of excellence relating to Canadian economic policy).

E. Saez and M.R. Veall, "The Evolution of High Incomes in Canada, 1920-2000," NBER Working Paper 9607 and SEDAP Research Paper 99, 2003.

P. Grootendorst and M.R. Veall, "National Catastrophic Health Insurance Revisited: Who Would Benefit from Senator Kirby's Recommendations? " Canadian Public Policy, 2005.  (Winner of the John Vanderkamp Prize for best paper published in Canadian Public Policy in 2005).

L. McLeod and M.R. Veall, "The Dynamics of Food Deprivation and Overall Health; Evid Canadian National Population Health Survey," SEDAP Research Paper No. 86 and IZA 638, Applied Economics, forthcoming.

S. Alan, T. F. Crossley, P. Grootendorst and M. Veall, "Distributional Effects of 'General Population' Prescription Drug Programs in Canada" Canadian Journal of Economics, 2005.

Q. Kong and M.R. Veall, "Does the Maclean's Ranking Matter? " Canadian Public Policy, 2005.

S. Alan, T. F. Crossley, P. Grootendorst and M. Veall, "The Effects of Drug Subsidies on Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures by Seniors: Regional Evidence from Canada," Journal of Health Economics, 2002.

J.-P. Lam and M. R. Veall, "Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Single Period Regression Forecasts," International Journal of Forecasting, 2002.

D. Fretz, A. Macnaughton and M.R. Veall, "Policy Approaches to Promote Private and Occupational Old-Age Provision in Canada," Bertelsmann Foundation, Vorsorgestudien, 4, 2002.

J. Robbins, and M.R. Veall, "Registered Saving Plan Holdings as a Government Asset," C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder No. 63, 2002

A. Macnaughton and M.R. Veall, "Tipping and the McQuatters Formula," Public Finance Review, 2001.

M.A. Sillamaa and M.R. Veall, "The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Taxable Income: A Panel Study of the 1988 Tax Flattening in Canada," Journal of Public Economics, 2001.

M.R. Veall, "Did Tax Flattening Affect RRSP Contributions?" Canadian Journal of Economics, 2001.

D. Fretz and M.R. Veall "Economists and the ARC Large Grants Program: A Brief Report," Economic Record (Miscellany Section), 2001

D. Fretz and M.R. Veall, "Review Article: 2 ½ Proposals to Save Social Security," Southern Economic Journal, 2001.

Working Papers

M.D. Dooley, R. Finnie and M.R. Veall.  "The Impct of the National Child Benefit on Low Households," unpublished, 2004

M. Aiello and M.R. Veall, "The Effects of Changing the Incentives to Tie: Evidence from Two Sports," unpublished, 2004.

L. Magee, and M.R. Veall, "Allocating Awards across Non Comparable Categories" IZA Working Paper 617 and McMaster Department of Economics Working Paper 2002-11.

 
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