RESEARCH
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Economic Globalization and Income Shares. Forthcoming. Journal of Comparative Economics (with Andreas Bergh and Christian Bjornskov).
Net Productive Entrepreneurship: An MSA-Level Index, 2002-2019. Forthcoming. Applied Economics Letters. (with Gary Wagner and Pete Calcagno).
Repression and International Trade: An Analysis of Chinese Trade with Islamic Countries. Forthcoming. Public Choice. (with Greg Caskey and Linan Peng).
Institutions Matter: Economic freedom and income mobility.
Forthcoming. Economic Modelling. (with Gary Wagner, Vincent Geloso, and Alicia Plemmons)
Welfare Entitlements Programs and Innovation: Do More Generous States Promote More Innovation? Forthcoming. Small Business Economics. (with Boris Nikolaev, Thomas Dean, and Todd Nesbit)
Revolutionary Constitutional Compliance. Forthcoming. Journal of Law and Economics. (with Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Andrew Young).
Baumol's Migrants: Productive and Unproductive Entrepreneurship and Between-MSA Migration. 2025. European Journal of Political Economy. (with Gary Wagner, Alicia Plemmons, and Vincent Geloso).
What do women get from revolutions? 2025. Journal of Institutional Economics. (with Joshua Ammons and Shishir Shakya).
Running on the “Dual Wheels”: The Effect of Integrating Strategic Emerging Industries into the Local Economy. 2025. Applied Economics Letters. (with Linan Peng)
Economic Freedom, Industry Diversity, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from Metropolitan Statistical Areas. 2024. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy.
Economic freedom and intergenerational education mobility. 2024. Journal of Private Enterprise. (with Vincent Geloso and Alicia Plemmons)
The Impact of City-County Mergers: Evidence from Sichuan Province. 2024. The Chinese Economy. (with Linan Peng)
Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander? Corruption and Income Inequality. 2024. Southern Economic Journal. (with Jamie Bologna Pavlik)
Impact of R1 Classification on Universities. 2024. Applied Economics (with Kerianne Lawson)
Court-packing and Judicial Independence. 2024. European Journal of Political Economy. (with Gor Mkrtchian)
Underperforming Reformers: Examining Disappointing Cases of Economic Reforms. 2024. Kyklos (with Kerianne Lawson)
How does economic freedom influence public health? Evidence from U.S. cities. 2023. Southern Economic Journal (with Kelly Hyde, Ilia Murtazashvili, and Yang Zhou).
Revolutionary Constitutions: Are They Revolutionary in terms of Constitutional Design? 2023. Public Choice (with Andrew Young)
The Political Economy of Lighthouses in Antebellum America 2023. European Economic Review (with Vincent Geloso)
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)
Intergenerational Income Mobility and Economic Freedom. 2023. Southern Economic Journal (with Vincent Geloso).
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)
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)
The Moral Costs of Markets: Testing the Deterioration Hypothesis. 2022. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (with Colin Harris and Ben Borchard)
Free to Grow? A Matching Methods Analysis of Economic Reform in the United States. 2022. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy.
Does Economic Freedom Lighten the Blow? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States. 2022. Economics of Governance, (with Jamie Bologna Pavlik)
Does Rigidity Matter? Constitutional Entrenchment and Growth. 2022. European Journal of Law and Economics, 53(1), 27-62 (with Andrew T. Young)
Does Constitutional Entrenchment Matter for Economic Freedom? 2021. Contemporary Economic Policy, 39(4), 808-830. (with Andrew T. Young)
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.
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)
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)
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)
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
Do Big Liberalizations Hurt the Environment? (with Vincent Geloso and Alicia Plemmons)
Uneven Gains from the First Wave of Right to Work Laws, 1944 to 1963. (with Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons and Gary Wagner)
Income Mobility, Austerity and Liberalization: Evidence from Alberta's Reforms in the 1990s. (with Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons and Chandley Reily)
Nonviolent Regime Change and Economic Freedom. (with Yahya Alshamy and Joshua Ammons)
Corruption and the Allocation of Business Activity in Brazil. (with Jamie Bologna Pavlik and João Pedro Basto)
Do “Environmental” Constitutions Protect the Environment? Evidence from Ecuador. (with João Pedro Basto and Nicolas Cachanosky).
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Available Upon Request:
Doing Drugs. (with Henry Thompson)