Maggie Jones is an Associate Professor of Economics at McGill University. Her research sits at the intersection of economic history and labor economics, examining the institutional roots of socioeconomic inequality in North America and the effectiveness of policies aimed at marginalized populations. Working with administrative data and original datasets built from primary sources, she focuses on the legacy of colonization among Indigenous populations and the economics of the Civil Rights Era. Her work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and Journal of Human Resources, among others. She holds a PhD from Queen's University and an MA from Dalhousie University.