c2riddell@uwaterloo
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CV: Chris Riddell
BA, University of British Columbia; MA, McMaster University; PhD, University of Toronto
Areas of specialization: Program Evaluation, Labour
I am a social scientist with wide interests. From 2005 to 2011, I was Assistant Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, and from 2011 to 2016, Associate Professor in the ILR School at Cornell University. In 2013, I received the John Dunlop Scholar award for outstanding contributions to the field of collective bargaining, and in 2021 received the Purvis Prize.
Recent Work:
Chris Riddell and Craig Riddell. “What did we learn from the North American Income Maintenance Experiments? New data and evidence on two-parent families.” Journal of Public Economics, 2026.
Chris Riddell and Craig Riddell. “Welfare versus work under a negative income tax: evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba income maintenance experiments.” Journal of Labor Economics, 2024.
Selected Past Work:
Experimental Re-Assessment
Chris Riddell and Craig Riddell. “Interpreting experimental evidence in the presence of post-randomization events: A reassessment of the Self-Sufficiency Project.” Journal of Labor Economics, 2020.
Chris Riddell and Craig Riddell. “The pitfalls of work requirements in welfare-to-work policies: Experimental evidence on human capital accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project.” Journal of Public Economics, 2014.
Labour market / social policy
Michele Campolieti and Chris Riddell. “Disability policy and the labor market: Evidence from a natural experiment in Canada, 1998-2006.” Journal of Public Economics, 2012.
Peter Kuhn and Chris Riddell. “The long-term effects of unemployment insurance: Evidence from New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010.
Chris Riddell and Rosemarie Riddell. “Welfare checks, drug consumption and health: Evidence from Vancouver injection drug users.” Journal of Human Resources, 2006.
Collective bargaining / Empirical Labour Law
Michele Campolieti and Chris Riddell. “Does mediation-arbitration reduce arbitration rates? Evidence from a natural experiment.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020.
Dionne Pohler and Chris Riddell. “Do multinationals comply with employment law? An empirical assessment using administrative data from Ontario, 2004 to 2015” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019.
Michele Campolieti, Chris Riddell and Sara Slinn. “Labor law reform and the role of delay in union organizing: Empirical evidence from Canada.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007.
Chris Riddell. “Union certification success under voting versus card-check procedures: Evidence from British Columbia, 1978–1998.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2004.