Brett A. McCully
brett.mccully@carloalberto.org
Currculum Vitae
Collegio Carlo Alberto
Piazza Vincenzo Arbarello 8
Turin
Italy
I am an Assistant Professor at Collegio Carlo Alberto. I am interested in the economics of migration, development, and trade.
Research
Working Papers-
Demographic Transition and Structural Transformation [Updated August 2025] (with Tania Barham, Randall Kuhn, and Patrick Turner) [STEG Working Paper]
Notoriety: STEG
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Immigrants, Imports, and Welfare: Evidence from Household Purchase Data [Updated July 2026] (with Christoph Albert and Torsten Jaccard)
Notoriety: Wim Meeusen Prize 2024
- Measuring Estimation Uncertainty due to Researcher Degrees of Freedom with Agentic Artificial Intelligence [June 2026] (revise and resubmit, Economics Letters)
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Immigrants, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade, November 2024, Vol. 152, Journal of International Economics
[published version] [replication package]
Notoriety: Political Violence at a Glance, Nada es Gratis (in Spanish), How to Sell Drugs (podcast), Young Italian Economist Award 2021
- How Much Are Car Purchases Driven by Home Equity Withdrawal? Evidence from Household Surveys (with Daniel J. Vine and Karen Pence), 2019, Vol. 51, No. 5, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
- Radicalized by Local News Broadcasting? How Partisan Media Affects Hate Crimes in the United States (with Wookun Kim and Jun Luo).
- Is Underemployment Underestimated? Evidence from Panel Data (with Geng Li), May 2016, FEDS Notes.
Software
Tads — a lightning-fast desktop viewer for Parquet and CSV files with Stata-style data exploration: browse millions of rows instantly, filter, pivot, and compute summary statistics with familiar commands.
Download: Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon), macOS (Intel) [GitHub]
Resources
- Generative AI and Economics Research [slides, March 2026]