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RESEARCH

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander?

Corruption and Income Inequality. 2024. Southern Economic Journal. (with Jamie Bologna Pavlik

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Impact of R1 Classification on Universities. 2024. Applied Economics (with Kerianne Lawson

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Court-packing and Judicial Independence. 2024. European Journal of Political Economy. (with Gor Mkrtchian)

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Underperforming Reformers: Examining Disappointing Cases of Economic Reforms. 2024. Kyklos (with Kerianne Lawson

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How does economic freedom influence public health? Evidence from U.S. cities. 2023. Southern Economic Journal (with Kelly Hyde, Ilia Murtazashvili, and Yang Zhou).

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Revolutionary Constitutions: Are They Revolutionary in terms of Constitutional Design? 2023. Public Choice (with Andrew Young

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The Political Economy of Lighthouses in Antebellum America 2023. European Economic Review (with Vincent Geloso)

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When a Country Becomes More Economically Free, Who in the Income Distribution Benefits? (Does Anybody Lose?) 2023. Journal of Comparative Economics (with Andrew T. Young

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Intergenerational Income Mobility and Economic Freedom. 2023. Southern Economic Journal (with Vincent Geloso).

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The Impact of Place-Based Policy: Evidence from a Multiple Synthetic Control Analysis of the Northeastern Revitalization Program in China. 2023. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, (with Linan Peng)

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The Authoritarian Trade-off: A Synthetic Control Analysis of Development and Social Compliance in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 2023. Contemporary Economic Policy (with Linan Peng

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The Moral Costs of Markets: Testing the Deterioration Hypothesis. 2022. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (with Colin Harris and Ben Borchard)

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Free to Grow? A Matching Methods Analysis of Economic Reform in the United States. 2022. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy.

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Does Economic Freedom Lighten the Blow? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States.  2022. Economics of Governance, (with Jamie Bologna Pavlik)

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Does Rigidity Matter? Constitutional Entrenchment and Growth. 2022. European Journal of Law and Economics, 53(1), 27-62 (with Andrew T. Young)

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Does Constitutional Entrenchment Matter for Economic Freedom? 2021. Contemporary Economic Policy, 39(4), 808-830. (with Andrew T. Young)

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Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler? The Persistent Effect French Civil Law Has on Corruption, Institutions, and Incomes in Louisiana. 2021. Journal of Institutional Economics, 17(4), 663-680.

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Institutional Quality and Development: On the Role of Informality. 2021. Journal of Developing Areas, 55(3), 343-363. (with Israt Jahan and Jamie Bologna Pavlik)

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Ideologies, Institutions, and Interests: Why Economic Ideas Don’t Compete on a Level Playing Field. 2020. Independent Review, 25(1), 63-78. (with Alex Salter)

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A Theory of Self-Governance: De Facto Constitutions as Filters. 2019. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 34(2), 127-147. (with Alex Salter)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Brewing Value? On the Impact of Local Breweries on Nearby Rentals. 2023. In Geography of Beer, Volume 3: Policies, Politics, Prohibition and Print! (with Javier Portillo and Gary Wagner)

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Economic Freedom Promotes Upward Income Mobility. 2021. In Gwartney, Lawson, Hall, and Murphy, Economic Freedom of the World: 2021 Annual Report, Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 189-210. (with Vincent Geloso)

UNDER REVIEW

Economic Freedom, Industry Diversity, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from Metropolitan Statistical Areas (Revise and Resubmit).

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The Impact of City-County Mergers: Evidence from Sichuan Province. (with Linan Peng) (Revise and Resubmit)

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The Effects of Endured Constitutions on Incomes in the Contemporary Era. (Revise and Resubmit).

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Economic freedom and intergenerational education mobility. (with Vincent Geloso and Alicia Plemmons)

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Repression and International Trade: An Analysis of Chinese Trade with Islamic Countries. (with Greg Caskey and Linan Peng)

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Income Mobility, Austerity and Liberalization: Evidence from Alberta's Reforms in the 1990s. (with Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons and Chandley Reily)

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Intergenerational mobility, social capital, and economic freedom. (with Vincent Geloso and Alicia Plemmons)

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Revolutionary Constitutional Compliance. (with Andrew Young and Jamie Bologna Pavlik)

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Corruption and the Allocation of Business Activity in Brazil. (with Jamie Bologna Pavlik and João Pedro Basto)

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Available Upon Request:

Nonviolent Regime Change and Economic Freedom. (with Yahya Alshamy and Joshua Ammons)

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Doing Drugs. (with Henry Thompson)

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Net Productive Entrepreneurship: An MSA-Level Index, 2002-2019. (with Gary Wagner and Pete Calcagno)

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Currently Unavailable:

Do No Harm? A Causal Analysis of the Impact of Foreign Aid on Governance Quality and Corruption. (with Kevin Grier). 

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Economic Globalization and Income Shares. (with Christian Bjørnskov and Andreas Bergh)

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What do women get from revolutions? (with Joshua Ammons and Shishir Shakya)

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