Maggie Jones
Associate Professor
PhD, Queen's University
Maggie Jones joined the Department of Economics at McGill in 2025 and is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and RF Berlin. Maggie’s research intersects economic history and labor economics, where she focuses on the institutional roots of socioeconomic inequalities in North America. Her work is concentrated in two thematic areas: the economic legacy of colonization among Indigenous populations, and the economics of the Civil Rights Era. Her papers have been published in several leading economics journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Review of Economic Studies. Maggie received her PhD from Queen’s University in 2018, following an MA and BSc from Dalhousie University.
- Cook, L.D., Jones, M.E.C., Logan, T.D, and David Rosé (2023). The Evolution of Access to Public Accommodations in the United States. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(1): 37-102.[Online Appendix]
- Feir, D., Gillzeau, R., and Maggie E.C. Jones (2023). The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains. Review of Economic Studies, 91(3): 1634-1670. [Accepted Version] [Online Appendix]
- Feir, D., Foley, K., and Maggie E.C. Jones (2025). Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programming for Indigenous Populations. Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.
- The Intergenerational Legacy of Indian Residential Schools (2024). Demography, forthcoming. [Online Appendix]
- Jones, M.E.C., Logan, T., Rosé, D., and Lisa Cook (2024). Black-Friendly Businesses in Cities During the Civil Rights Era. Journal of Urban Economics. [Online Appendix]
- Jones, M.E.C. (2023). Post-Secondary Funding and the Educational Attainment of Indigenous Students. Economics of Education Review, 97. [Online Appendix]