Remy Beauregard
Incoming Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics · University of San Francisco
I will be joining the University of San Francisco as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics for academic year '26-'27. My research fields are behavioral, experimental, and development economics. I received my PhD from UC Davis in Summer 2026.
rbeauregard@usfca.edu · remy.g.beauregard@gmail.com · CV (HTML)
Research
Publications
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Inflation Expectations and Risk Premia in Emerging Bond Markets: Evidence from Mexico
with Jens H. E. Christensen, Eric Fischer, and Simon Zhu · Journal of International Economics 2024
To study inflation expectations and associated risk premia in emerging bond markets, we provide estimates for Mexico based on an arbitrage-free dynamic term structure model of nominal and real bond prices that accounts for their liquidity risk. Beyond documenting the existence of large and weakly correlated liquidity premia in nominal and real bond prices, our results indicate that long-term inflation expectations in Mexico are well anchored close to the Bank of Mexico’s inflation target. Furthermore, Mexican inflation risk premia are larger and more volatile than those in Canada and the United States.
Working Papers
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Paid With(out) Purpose: Perceptions, Preferences, and the Meaning of Work
Job Market Paper · Under review
I develop a novel online experiment with 387 subjects on Prolific and simple utility model to examine how workers respond to reported work meaning. Workers value different aspects of work and are willing to give up other incentives for their best work match. Roughly 31% of workers do not value meaning in their work, 27% do not value work pay, 30% value both, and 11% cannot be characterized. Overall, 57% of workers are willing to sacrifice up to 14% of possible pay in their pursuit of meaningful work. For workers who value work meaning, I estimate positive impacts of meaningfulness on the quantity and quality of output, although these effects occur only for a task with prosocial framing. Finally, I validate a light-touch treatment designed to increase worker awareness of the value they place on meaning, again finding effects only for workers who seek meaning in their work. Importantly, raising worker awareness of work meaning has no impact on the types of incentives they seek out. These results offer insights into how such interventions and preferences for work meaning might be leveraged in organizational settings.
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What Moves Meaning? Investigating Drivers of an Idiosyncratic Incentive
Invited to present at ESA Worlds Conference (Los Angeles 2026) and SEA Annual Meeting (Houston 2026)
I develop a novel online experiment with 488 participants on Prolific to examine how two interventions, an information treatment emphasizing the social importance of a task and a generative treatment prompting workers to reflect on what they personally find meaningful, affect the subjective experience of work. While the information treatment increases meaningfulness for the intended prosocial task, it also significantly raises reported task difficulty. In contrast, the generative treatment increases reported meaningfulness for some workers without affecting difficulty. Examining the within-session attenuation of these effects, the information treatment's before-working gain fades fully by endline, while the generative treatment shows less within-session attenuation for workers who value meaning, though whether this advantage persists beyond the experimental session is an open question. Together, these findings suggest that generative approaches may offer a more favorable pathway to enhancing perceptions of work meaningfulness, producing gains that show less (short-run) attenuation and no increase in perceived difficulty.
Ongoing Projects
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Benefits on the Bench: Workfare, Mental Health, and the Role of the Team
with Carlos Brito · Design presented at Advances with Field Experiments Conference (UChicago 2025)
Recent studies have found large positive effects of working compared to pure cash transfers on various measures of mental health for labor demand-constrained populations. We hypothesize that some such benefits could stem from belonging to and training with a team even if one is not ultimately selected to work, which we term as "being on the bench". This study proposes a novel field experiment to investigate the effects of being placed on the bench by a randomized employment lottery for forcibly displaced Venezuelan migrants in Roraima, a Brazilian border state. This population is understood to have both high unemployment and job-seeking as well as poor mental health, making them both appropriate and necessary to study. Similar to previous studies, we also include a cash transfer treatment arm and pure control for comparison.
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Do Social Expectations Discourage Graduates From Accepting Low-paid Jobs? Evidence From Ghana
with Grace Abban-Ampiah (CEGA Fellow) and Leila Budgha · Collecting additional baseline data
High unemployment rates among tertiary-educated people pose challenges in low and middle income countries, particularly affecting graduates in Sub-Saharan African countries. This study specifically examines the role of social norms and how they affect Ghanaian business school graduates' willingness to take low-paid jobs as potential stepping stones to better career opportunities. We use surveys and interviews to inform a future randomized controlled trial aimed at modifying graduates' misconceptions and at increasing acceptance of low-paid employment. The findings should guide universities and policymakers to mitigate social pressures and help graduates navigate the labor market.
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pAIn or gAIn? Meaningful Work in the Age of AI
Designing experiment
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Peer Effects on Novel Strategy Diffusion
Designing experiment
Teaching
As an instructor, I am committed to promoting equity and excellence in the field of Economics. I believe strongly in the empowerment of students from historically underrepresented backgrounds and support the free and open exchange of ideas in the classroom.
University of San Francisco (upcoming)
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ECON 110 Introductory Economics
Economists employ simplified models to dissect and analyze the multifaceted phenomena that shape our daily experiences. This course serves as a comprehensive introduction to a diverse array of economic principles, theories, and analytical methodologies, spanning both microeconomics and macroeconomics.
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ECON 365 Behavioral Economics
Behavioral Economics uses insights from psychology to explain human decision-making that deviates from the rational person model assumed in economic theory. The goal is to enhance existing models of how humans make choices individually and in groups in order to better explain economic phenomena.
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ECON 463/663 Experimental Economics (Graduate)
This course introduces modern laboratory experimental methods to students with well-developed interests in economics and with an intermediate-level knowledge of microeconomics and statistics. The course examines experimental techniques in detail and surveys recent applications in fields such as markets, development, choice under certainty and games. Students use the lessons to conduct original research and set up their own experiment.
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ECON 623 Field Research Methods (Graduate)
This course is intended to be taken by Master's students in International and Development Economics in the Spring semester to prepare students for Summer field research. The course covers a variety of topics including sampling methods, field interview techniques, planning an empirical research strategy, ethical issues, importance of the protection of human subjects, and advice for maintaining proper health and safety during field research.
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ECON 672 Economics of Development (Graduate)
Development economics: theoretical and empirical investigations of economic development issues, policies, and strategies.
University of California, Davis
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ECN 102 Analysis of Economics Data
Analysis of economic data to investigate key relationships emphasized in introductory micro and macro economics. Obtaining, transforming, displaying data; statistical analysis of economic data; basic univariate and multivariate regression analysis.
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ECN 099/199 Independent Study
Undergraduate lower- and upper-division independent study in economics: supervised research projects, directed readings, and individual study developed with a faculty member or graduate student.