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Bio

Donn Feir is an applied econometrician and economic historian who has published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Review: Insights, the Journal of Economic History, the Journal of Human Resources, as well as Canadian Public Policy and the Canadian Journal of Economics. Donn has published on reconciliation, modern Indigenous labour market experiences, health and the impact of historic policies on Indigenous economies and people, as well as on topics relevant to gender diverse people.

Donn is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labour Economics. Donn formerly worked at the Center for Indian Country Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Donn received their PhD from the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.

Interests

• Indigenous Economics
• Labour Economics
• LGBTQI+ Economics
• Economic History
• Applied Econometrics

Research projects

• The Long-Run Impact of Historical Treaty Making
• Access to Finance for Indigenous Nations
• Indigenous Outcomes in the Labour Market
• Environmental Racism in Canada

Courses

• ECON 313, Intermediate Microeconomics II
• ECON 346, Applied Econometrics II
• ECON 423, Economics and Indigenous Peoples
• ECON 526, Economics and Indigenous Nations

Selected Publications

• Carpenter, Christopher, Donn Feir, Krishan Pendakur, and Casey Warman. “Nonbinary Gender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census," American Economic Review: Insights. (Forthcoming, 2025).
• Feir, Donn, Kelly Foley and Maggie Jones. “The Distributional Impacts of Targeted Labour Market Programming: Evidence from the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy” The Journal of Human Resources. (May, 2025). doi: 
• Feir, Donn. “Economic History and Indigenous Peoples in North America,” Annual Review of Economics. (Forthcoming, 2025).
• Feir, Donn, Rob Gillezeau and Maggie Jones. Slaughter of the North American Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains,”  Review of Economic Studies. Volume 91, Issue 3, (May 2024): pp. 1634–1670 
• Feir, Donn. “Policies for Other People: Reflections from an Economist on Research and Federal Government Indigenous Policy in Canada Post-1975,” Canadian Public Policy. Volume 50, no. S1 (May 2024): pp. 36-61 
• Feir, Donn and Samuel Mann. “Temporal Trends in ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Health in the United States by Gender Identity, 2014–2021,” American Journal of Public Health114, no. 5 (May 1, 2024): pp. 523-526. 
• “Indigenous Nations and the Development of the US Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession” (with Ann Carlos and Angela Redish) Journal of Economic History. (2022, Volume 82, No. 2,  p 516 - 555)