Kyle Boutilier
Kyle Boutilier
PhD 2nd 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
2nd Year PhD Student (4th year MRes/PhD) with a strong interest in labour, health, and public economics. When I鈥檓 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鈥檚 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)
Moving to Health: Co-Location and Health Care
Immigration and Social Care: Evidence from England
Publications
- (with Thomas J. Carter, Xin Scott Chen, Eshini Ekanayake, Louis Poirier, Peter Shannon, Akash Uppal, Lin Xiang). Bank of Canada Staff Analytical Note, 2022.
- (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)