Remy Beauregard
PhD candidate in Economics · University of California, Davis
I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Economics at UC Davis specializing in behavioral, experimental, and development economics. My research explores meaningful work, workfare, and mental health. My advisors are Anujit Chakraborty and Arman Rezaee.
Prior to my PhD, I was a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and received my BA in Economics and Psychology from Vassar College.
I am on the 2025-2026 job market.
rebeauregard@ucdavis.edu · remy.g.beauregard@gmail.com · find my CV here
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, vol. 151, 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 · Awarded UC Davis Bacon Family Summer Fellowship 2025 · Invited to present at Western Economics Association International North American Conferences (Denver 2026; San Francisco 2025), University of San Francisco Seminar Series (2026), Vassar College Seminar Series (2025), Economic Science Association North American Meeting (Tuscon 2025), Bay Area Behavioral & Experimental Economics Workshop (San Jose State University 2025)
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 appear to strongly value different aspects of work and be willing to give up other incentives for their best work match. 31% of workers then appear not to value meaning in their work, 27% appear not to value work pay, 30% appear to value both, and 12% 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 appear 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.
Ongoing Projects
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Benefits on the Bench: Workfare, Mental Health, and the Role of the Team
with Carlos Brito · Submitted to J-PAL Jobs and Opportunity Initiative 2026 · Invited to present at Advances with Field Experiments Conference (UChicago 2025) · Presentation slides
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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What Moves Meaning? Investigating Drivers of an Idiosyncratic Incentive
Draft available soon
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 perceptions of work meaningfulness. While the information treatment increases meaningfulness for the intended prosocial task by 7%, it also raises reported difficulty by 20% overall. In contrast, the generative treatment increases meaningfulness for some workers without affecting perceived difficulty. Examining attenuation of these effects, reported meaningfulness declines 4% at endline for those in the information treatment, while those in the generative treatment show no such decline. Together, these findings suggest that generative approaches may offer a more desirable pathway to work meaningfulness, delivering lasting gains without increasing perceived difficulty.
Teaching
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. I have an instructor effectiveness score of 4.3/5 and TA effectiveness score of 4.5/5 at UC Davis.
Instructor of Record
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ECN 102 Analysis of Economics DataSummer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 · UC Davis · Syllabus · Textbook
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ECN 099 Independent Study · Undergraduate Reading GroupSpring 2026 · Winter 2026 · UC Davis · Syllabus · Book
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ECN 199 Independent Study · Designing ExperimentsFall 2024 · UC Davis · Write-up
Teaching Assistant
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ECN 142 Econometrics & Machine Learning · UraWinter 2025 · UC Davis
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ECN 190 Behavioral Economics · ChakrabortySpring 2024 · UC Davis
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ECN 102 Analysis of Economics Data · Moreira, SieglerWinter 2024, Spring 2022 · UC Davis
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ECN 115BY Economic Development · WilsonFall 2023, Fall 2022 · UC Davis
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ECN 152 Economics of Education · SieglerSummer 2023 · UC Davis
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ECN 111A, 111B US Economic History · Wilson, MeissnerFall 2025, Spring 2023 · UC Davis
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ECN 101 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory · Bergin, MeissnerWinter 2026, Winter 2022, Fall 2021 · UC Davis
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Econ 102 Introduction to Economics · FryeSpring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 · Vassar College
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Psych 200 Statistics & Experimental Design · TrumbettaSpring 2017 · Vassar College
Student Reviews
"Remy did an amazing job teaching ECN 102 this summer. He made the class interesting and meaningful by highlighting the connections between course topics and the way they built on each other. Instruction was clear and easy to follow, and somehow not overwhelming despite the sheer amount of material he had to cover in the span of 6 weeks. I felt that the class was organized well and there were a lot of opportunities to practice and apply the things we were learning in class prior to being tested on them. Additionally, Remy was very encouraging. He responded to questions thoughtfully, and was really nice about students struggling with the material, both in class and during office hours. I appreciated his willingness to answer questions about topics beyond the scope of this class, which got me interested in ECN 140 and helped me make a decision with one of my own academic/career goals."
"If you plan to continue teaching in any capacity, don't change anything. To me the way you taught this class was very effective and I understood the material that you presented."
"Very good professor! I love his teaching style. The knowledge checks at the end of each lecture are also very helpful as well as the practice problems for the exams. I love the idea of corrections because it teaches a student their mistakes and we reflect back on it. 102 is a hard econ class but professor Remy makes it easy to understand!"