brett.mccully@carloalberto.org
Currculum Vitae

Collegio Carlo Alberto
Piazza Vincenzo Arbarello 8
Turin
Italy

Research

Working Papers

• Demographic Transition and Structural Transformation [Updated August 2025] (with Tania Barham, Randall Kuhn, and Patrick Turner) [STEG Working Paper]

  Notoriety: STEG

• Immigrants, Imports, and Welfare: Evidence from Household Purchase Data [Updated November 2025] (with Christoph Albert and Torsten Jaccard)

  Notoriety: Wim Meeusen Prize 2024

Publications

• 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.

  [ungated version]

Works-in-Progress

• Radicalized by Local News Broadcasting? How Partisan Media Affects Hate Crimes in the United States (with Wookun Kim and Jun Luo).

• Researcher-Induced Estimation Uncertainty at Scale Using Generative AI.

Policy Paper

• Is Underemployment Underestimated? Evidence from Panel Data (with Geng Li), May 2016, FEDS Notes.

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Resources

• Generative AI and Economics Research [slides, March 2026]