Donna Feir
Biographic Data
| ID | 3861826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Feir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | Feir |
| SIGNATURE | FEIR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7101-0420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction to the Special Issue on LGBTQ + Economics
Data Sovereignty and Development
The Indigenous data sovereignty movement has arisen out of the ambition of Indigenous peoples to benefit from data-informed policy while preventing extractive and harmful research practices by external governments or researchers. Tribes exercise the sovereign authority to choose whether and when to share data with researchers and institutions outside their communities. To provide insight into how Indigenous peoples feel about data sharing, we doc…
Temporal Trends in Mental Health in the United States by Gender Identity, 2014–2021
Objectives. To examine the temporal trends in the transgender–cisgender mental health disparity in the United States. Methods. We used 2014–2021 US Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey data with logistic and ordinary least squares regression to document temporal trends in the transgender–cisgender disparity in self-reports of the number of poor mental health days in the past month and frequent mental distress. Results. In 2014, cisge…
When do nations tax? The adoption of property tax codes by First Nations in Canada
The tribal digital divide
Native American Age at Death in the USA
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy
Abundant land and strong property rights are conventionally viewed as key factors underpinning U.S. economic development success. This view relies on the “Pristine Myth” of an empty undeveloped land, but the abundant land of North America was already made productive and was the recognized territory of sovereign Indigenous Nations. We demonstrate that the development of strong property rights for European/American settlers was mirrored by the atte…
Native Americans’ Experience of Chronic Distress in the USA
Repaying a Debt? The Performance of Morrill Act University Beneficiaries as Measured by Native Enrollment and Graduation Rates
Repaying a Debt?The Performance of Morrill Act University Beneficiaries as Measured by Native Enrollment and Graduation Rates Donna Feir (bio) and Maggie E. C. Jones (bio) the 1862 morrill act transferred "public" lands to several states and territories for the benefit of establishing colleges. The act is widely viewed as a watershed event in the development of the United States' postsecondary system (Goldin and Katz 2008; Key 1996). Recent quasi…
The Price of Mortgage Financing for Native Americans
Introduction of Formal Child Care Services in Inuit Communities and Labour Force Outcomes
We study the impacts of the introduction of formal child care services in 28 Inuit communities in Canada’s North. We use geographical variation in the timing of the introduction of child care services in the late 1990s and early 2000s to estimate the impact of increased access to child care. We combine the 1996, 2001, and 2006 long-form census files with data on the opening dates of child care centres in each of the 28 communities over time. We f…
Estimating Institutionalization and Homelessness for Status First Nations in Canada
We propose an accessible and repeatable method for calculating rates of institutionalization and homelessness by age and gender among Status First Nations in Canada. We calculate this measure by combining Census and administrative data—a method that could be estimated fairly easily over time. We estimate extremely high rates of institutionalization and homelessness, especially among young Status men. We estimate that, averaged over 2001 and 2006,…
Return to the Homeland? The Impact of the Great Recession on Employment Outcomes and Labor Mobility for Native Americans
Weak Identification in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs
In fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) designs, the treatment effect is identified through a discontinuity in the conditional probability of treatment assignment. We show that when identification is weak (i.e., when the discontinuity is of a small magnitude), the usual t-test based on the FRD estimator and its standard error suffers from asymptotic size distortions as in a standard instrumental variables setting. This problem can be especially s…
The Intergenerational Effects of Residential Schools on Children’s Educational Experiences in Ontario and Canada’s Western Provinces
The intergenerational effects of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools have been widely discussed, but limited empirical work exists. I use the confidential wave of the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey of Children and Youth (APSCY) to study the association between mothers’ residential school attendance and their children’s educational outcomes and experiences in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. Holding a number of facto…
Answering the Call
In the summer of 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) delivered a summary of its final report on the history and legacy of Indian residential schools. The commissioners argue that all Canadians have a role to play in the project of reconciliation. We suggest that economists and other similar quantitative social scientists are in a unique position to contribute to this project, and we offer some thoughts on the role they c…
Size, Structure, and Change
I investigate the trends and sources of the Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal annual earnings gap and the on-reserve annual earnings penalty. Three sources of these gaps are considered: differences in weeks worked, weekly earnings due to characteristics, and returns. I find that earnings differences between non-Aboriginals and Métis have declined due to convergence in the number of weeks worked. The on-reserve weekly earnings penalty has increased, possi…
Answering the Call
In the summer of 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) delivered a summary of its final report on the history and legacy of Indian residential schools. The commissioners argue that all Canadians have a role to play in the project of reconciliation. We suggest that economists and other similar quantitative social scientists are in a unique position to contribute to this project, and we offer some thoughts on the role they c…
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy
Abundant land and strong property rights are conventionally viewed as key factors underpinning U.S. economic development success. This view relies on the “Pristine Myth” of an empty undeveloped land, but the abundant land of North America was already made productive and was the recognized territory of sovereign Indigenous Nations. We demonstrate that the development of strong property rights for European/American settlers was mirrored by the atte…
Introduction of Formal Child Care Services in Inuit Communities and Labour Force Outcomes
We study the impacts of the introduction of formal child care services in 28 Inuit communities in Canada’s North. We use geographical variation in the timing of the introduction of child care services in the late 1990s and early 2000s to estimate the impact of increased access to child care. We combine the 1996, 2001, and 2006 long-form census files with data on the opening dates of child care centres in each of the 28 communities over time. We f…
Size, Structure, and Change
I investigate the trends and sources of the Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal annual earnings gap and the on-reserve annual earnings penalty. Three sources of these gaps are considered: differences in weeks worked, weekly earnings due to characteristics, and returns. I find that earnings differences between non-Aboriginals and Métis have declined due to convergence in the number of weeks worked. The on-reserve weekly earnings penalty has increased, possi…
Data Sovereignty and Development
The Indigenous data sovereignty movement has arisen out of the ambition of Indigenous peoples to benefit from data-informed policy while preventing extractive and harmful research practices by external governments or researchers. Tribes exercise the sovereign authority to choose whether and when to share data with researchers and institutions outside their communities. To provide insight into how Indigenous peoples feel about data sharing, we doc…
Repaying a Debt? The Performance of Morrill Act University Beneficiaries as Measured by Native Enrollment and Graduation Rates
Repaying a Debt?The Performance of Morrill Act University Beneficiaries as Measured by Native Enrollment and Graduation Rates Donna Feir (bio) and Maggie E. C. Jones (bio) the 1862 morrill act transferred "public" lands to several states and territories for the benefit of establishing colleges. The act is widely viewed as a watershed event in the development of the United States' postsecondary system (Goldin and Katz 2008; Key 1996). Recent quasi…
The Price of Mortgage Financing for Native Americans
Size, Structure, and Change
I investigate the trends and sources of the Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal annual earnings gap and the on-reserve annual earnings penalty. Three sources of these gaps are considered: differences in weeks worked, weekly earnings due to characteristics, and returns. I find that earnings differences between non-Aboriginals and Métis have declined due to convergence in the number of weeks worked. The on-reserve weekly earnings penalty has increased, possi…
Weak Identification in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs
In fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) designs, the treatment effect is identified through a discontinuity in the conditional probability of treatment assignment. We show that when identification is weak (i.e., when the discontinuity is of a small magnitude), the usual t-test based on the FRD estimator and its standard error suffers from asymptotic size distortions as in a standard instrumental variables setting. This problem can be especially s…
The Intergenerational Effects of Residential Schools on Children’s Educational Experiences in Ontario and Canada’s Western Provinces
The intergenerational effects of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools have been widely discussed, but limited empirical work exists. I use the confidential wave of the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey of Children and Youth (APSCY) to study the association between mothers’ residential school attendance and their children’s educational outcomes and experiences in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. Holding a number of facto…
Answering the Call
In the summer of 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) delivered a summary of its final report on the history and legacy of Indian residential schools. The commissioners argue that all Canadians have a role to play in the project of reconciliation. We suggest that economists and other similar quantitative social scientists are in a unique position to contribute to this project, and we offer some thoughts on the role they c…
Estimating Institutionalization and Homelessness for Status First Nations in Canada
We propose an accessible and repeatable method for calculating rates of institutionalization and homelessness by age and gender among Status First Nations in Canada. We calculate this measure by combining Census and administrative data—a method that could be estimated fairly easily over time. We estimate extremely high rates of institutionalization and homelessness, especially among young Status men. We estimate that, averaged over 2001 and 2006,…
Return to the Homeland? The Impact of the Great Recession on Employment Outcomes and Labor Mobility for Native Americans
Introduction of Formal Child Care Services in Inuit Communities and Labour Force Outcomes
We study the impacts of the introduction of formal child care services in 28 Inuit communities in Canada’s North. We use geographical variation in the timing of the introduction of child care services in the late 1990s and early 2000s to estimate the impact of increased access to child care. We combine the 1996, 2001, and 2006 long-form census files with data on the opening dates of child care centres in each of the 28 communities over time. We f…
The Price of Mortgage Financing for Native Americans
Native Americans’ Experience of Chronic Distress in the USA
Repaying a Debt? The Performance of Morrill Act University Beneficiaries as Measured by Native Enrollment and Graduation Rates
Repaying a Debt?The Performance of Morrill Act University Beneficiaries as Measured by Native Enrollment and Graduation Rates Donna Feir (bio) and Maggie E. C. Jones (bio) the 1862 morrill act transferred "public" lands to several states and territories for the benefit of establishing colleges. The act is widely viewed as a watershed event in the development of the United States' postsecondary system (Goldin and Katz 2008; Key 1996). Recent quasi…
The tribal digital divide
Native American Age at Death in the USA
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy
Abundant land and strong property rights are conventionally viewed as key factors underpinning U.S. economic development success. This view relies on the “Pristine Myth” of an empty undeveloped land, but the abundant land of North America was already made productive and was the recognized territory of sovereign Indigenous Nations. We demonstrate that the development of strong property rights for European/American settlers was mirrored by the atte…
Data Sovereignty and Development
The Indigenous data sovereignty movement has arisen out of the ambition of Indigenous peoples to benefit from data-informed policy while preventing extractive and harmful research practices by external governments or researchers. Tribes exercise the sovereign authority to choose whether and when to share data with researchers and institutions outside their communities. To provide insight into how Indigenous peoples feel about data sharing, we doc…
Temporal Trends in Mental Health in the United States by Gender Identity, 2014–2021
Objectives. To examine the temporal trends in the transgender–cisgender mental health disparity in the United States. Methods. We used 2014–2021 US Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey data with logistic and ordinary least squares regression to document temporal trends in the transgender–cisgender disparity in self-reports of the number of poor mental health days in the past month and frequent mental distress. Results. In 2014, cisge…
When do nations tax? The adoption of property tax codes by First Nations in Canada
Introduction to the Special Issue on LGBTQ + Economics
Economics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Law (5 works)