Economics Department

Working Papers

Our working papers are indexed in Research Papers in Economics.

72. Jaeger, David A, Esteban F. Klor, Sami H. Miaari, and M. Daniele Paserman,"The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada" April 2008.

71. Moody, Carlisle E. and Thomas B. Marvell,"The Debate on Right-to-Carry Concealed Weapons Laws" February 2008.

70. Pereira, Alfredo M. and Jorge M. Andraz,"On the Regional Incidence of Public Investment in Highways in the USA" January 2008.

69. Jaeger, David A., Randall Kekoa Quinones Akee, and Konstantinos Tatsiramos, "The Persistence of Self-Empoyment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States" December 2007.

68. Hanson, Matthew A, "The Economics of Roadside Bombs," December 2007.

67. Abegaz, Berhanu, "The Speed of Structural Convergence in the Manufacturing Industries of Newly Industrializing Economies ," December 2007. Forthcoming in South Africa Journal of Economics.

66. Freeborn, Beth A. and Brian McManus, "Substance Abuse Treatment and Motor Vehicle Fatalities," December 2007.

65. May, Justin, "International Financial Volatility and Commodity Exports: Evidence from the Thai Agricultural Sector," October 2007.

64. May, Justin, "Trade and Migration in an Enlarged European Union:A Spatial Analysis," October 2007.

63. Romero, Alfredo, "Revisiting the Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand," October 2007.

62. Romero, Alfredo, "A Note on the Use of R-squared in Model Selection," October 2007.

61. Coibion, Olivier, "Testing the Sticky Information Phillips Curve," October 2007.

60. Merrill, Lauren N., "A Characterization of Strategy-Proof Rules over the Condorcet Domain with an Even Number of Individuals," October 2007.

59. Anderson, Lisa R. and Jennifer M. Mellor, "Predicting Health Behaviors with an Experimental Measure of Risk Preference," September 2007, revised April 2008.

58. Coibion, Olivier and Daniel Goldstein, "One for Some or One for All? Taylor Rules and Interregional Heterogeneity," September 2007.

57. Schmidt, Martin B., "Voting with the Crowd: Do Single Issues Drive Partisanship?," September 2007.

56. Hanson, Matthew A. and Martin B. Schmidt, "The Impact of Coalition Offensive Operations on the Iraqi Insurgency," September 2007.

55. Pereira, Alfredo M. and Martin B. Schmidt, "Structural Breaks in Infrastructure Investment in the U.S.," August 2007.

54. Jaeger, David A. and M. Daniele Paserman, "The Shape of Things to Come? Assessing the Effectiveness of Suicide Attacks and Targeted Killings," July 2007.

53. Archibald, Robert B. and David H. Feldman, "Avoiding Tunnel Vision in the Study of Higher Education Costs," June 2007. Forthcoming in Change.

52. Cohen, Andrew, Beth A. Freeborn, and Brian McManus, "Competition and Crowding-Out among Public, Non-Profit and For-Profit Organizations: Evidence from Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment," May 2007.

51. Campbell, Donald E. and Jerry S. Kelly, "Organ Transplants, Hiring Committees, and Early Rounds of the Kappell Piano Competition ," April 2007.

50. Jaeger, David A., Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde, "Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration," March 2007.

49. Campbell, Donald E. and Jerry S. Kelly, "Uniformly Bounded Information and Social Choice," January 2007.

48. Eicher, Theo and Till Schreiber, "Structural Policies and Growth: Time Series Evidence from a Natural Experiment," November 2006.

47. Schmidt, Martin B., "Institutional Change and Factor Movement: A Test of the Coase Theorem's Invariance Principle," November 2006.

46. Pereira, Alfredo M. and Oriol Roca Sagalés, "Public Infrastructures and Regional Asymmetries in Spain," October 2006, revised March 2007. Forthcoming in Revue d'Economie Regionale et Urbaine.

45. Pereira, Alfredo M. and Jorge M. Andraz, "Public Investment in Transportation Infrastructures and Industry Performance in Portugal," October 2006, revised April 2007. Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Development.

44. Anderson, Lisa R., Beth Freeborn, Jessica Holmes, Mark Jeffreys, Dan Lass, and Jack Soper, "Location, Location, Location! A Classroom Demonstration of the Hotelling Model," September 2006, revised February 2007.

43. Campbell, Donald E. and Jerry S. Kelly, "Social Welfare Functions that Satisfy Pareto, Anonymity, and Neutrality: Countable Many Alternatives ," September 2006.

42. Archibald, Robert B. and David H. Feldman, "Explaining Increases in Higher Education Costs," September 2006. Forthcoming in Journal of Higher Education.

41. Pereira, Alfredo M. and Maria de Fátima Pinho, "Public Investment and Budgetary Consolidation in Portugal," August 2006.

40. Pereira, Alfredo M. and Maria de Fátima Pinho, "Public Investment, Economic Performance and Budgetary Consolidation: VAR Evidence for the 12 Euro Countries," August 2006.

39. Campbell, Donald E. and Jerry S. Kelly, "Pareto, Anonymity, and Independence: Four Alternatives," August 2006. Forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare.

38. Campbell, Donald E. and Jerry S. Kelly, "Social Welfare Functions that Satisfy Pareto, Anonymity, and Neutrality, but not IIA," August 2006. Forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare.

37. Pereira, Alfredo M. and Jorge M. Andraz, "Should the Portuguese Toll-Free Highways Remain Toll Free?," August 2006.

36. Pereira, Alfredo M. and Rui Manuel Pereira, "Controlling the Public Wage Bill in Portugal: The Case of University Professors," July 2006, revised August 2006. Forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters.

35. Pereira, Alfredo M. and Oriol Roca Sagalés, "On the Effect of Fiscal Policies in Portugal," July 2006, revised August 2007.

34. Ahlburg, Dennis A., Eric R. Jensen, and Ruyan Liao, "When I'm 104: The Determinants of Healthy Longevity Among the Oldest-Old in China," July 2006.

33. Pereira, Alfredo M. and Jorge M. Andraz "On the Economic and Fiscal Effects of Investment in Road Infrastructure in Portugal," July 2006.

32. Jensen, Eric R., Sarah M. Gale, and Paul E. Charpentier, "On Migrant Selectivity," July 2006.

31. Davig, Troy and Jeffrey R. Gerlach, "Monetary Policy, the Bond Market, and Changes in FOMC Communication Policy," July 2006.

30. Freeborn, Beth A., "Arrest Avoidance: Law Enforcement and Price of Cocaine," June 2006.

29. Jaeger, David A., "Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000," May 2006. Published in Research in Labor Economics, 27: 131-183 (2007).

28. LaLumia, Sara, "The Effects of Joint Taxation of Married Couples on Labor Supply and Non-wage Income," March 2006.

27. Stafford, Sarah L., "Should You Turn Yourself In? The Consequences of Environmental Self-Policing," February 2006, revised June 2006. Published in Journal of Public Policy Analysis and Management, 26(2): 305-326 (March 2007).

26. Stafford, Sarah L., "Self-Policing in a Targeted Enforcement Regime," February 2006.

25. Hicks, Robert L. and Kurt Schnier, "A Spatial Model of Dolphin Avoidance in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean," January 2006.

24. Archibald, Robert B. and David H. Feldman, "Graduation Rates and Accountability: Regressions versus Production Frontiers," January 2006. Forthcoming in Research in Higher Education.

23. Jaeger, David A. and M. Daniele Paserman, "Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence," December 2005. Published in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 96(2):45-49 (May 2006).

22. Jaeger, David A. and M. Daniele Paserman, "The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict," October 2005. Forthcoming in American Economic Review.

21. Furstenberg, Eric, "Does Banning Affirmative Action Affect Racial SAT Score Gaps? An Empirical Analysis," August 2005, revised September 2005.

20. Anderson, Lisa R. and Jennifer M. Mellor, "Did the Devil Make Them Do It? The Effect of Religion in Public Goods and Trust Games ," August 2005, revised September 2007.

19. Stafford, Sarah L., "Can Consumers Enforce Environmental Regulations? The Role of the Market in Hazardous Waste Compliance," June 2005. Published in Journal of Regulatory Economics, 31: 83-107 (February 2007).

18. Hicks, Robert L. and Kurt Schnier, "Dynamic Discrete Choice Modeling: Monte Carlo Analysis," June 2005.

17. Anderson, Lisa R., and Sarah L. Stafford, "Does Crime Pay? A Classroom Demonstration of Monitoring and Enforcement," May 2005. Published in Southern Economic Journal, 72(4):1016-1025 (April 2006).

16. Anderson, Lisa R., Emily Blanchard, Kelly Chaston, Charles Holt, Laura Razzolini, and Robert Singleton, "Production and Gains from Trade," May 2005. Forthcoming in Perspectives on Economic Education Research.

15. Anderson, Lisa R., Jeffrey R. Gerlach, and Francis J. DiTraglia, "Yes, Wall Street, There Is a January Effect! Evidence from Laboratory Auctions," March 2005. Forthcoming in Journal of Behavioral Finance.

14. Anderson, Lisa R., Jennifer M. Mellor, and Jeffrey Milyo, "An Experimental Study of the Effects of Inequality and Relative Deprivation on Trusting Behavior," January 2005. Published as "Induced Heterogeneity in Trust Experiments," Experimental Economics, 9(3):223-236 (September 2006).

13. Abegaz, Berhanu, "The Diversified Business Group as an Innovative Organizational Model for Large State-Enterprise Reform in China and Vietnam," January 2005. Published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management 5(5/6): 379-400 (2005).

12. Anderson, Lisa R., Jennifer M. Mellor, and Jeffrey Milyo, "Inequality and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis," December 2004. Forthcoming in the Journal of Socio-Economics.

11. Mellor, Jennifer M., "Illustrating Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets with a Classroom Game," December 2004, revised March 2005. Published in Southern Economic Journal 72(2): 502-515 (October 2005).

10. Archibald, Robert B. and David H. Feldman, "State Higher Education Spending and the Tax Revolt," November 2004. Published in Journal of Higher Education 77(4): 618-644 (July/August 2006).

9. Baker, Samuel H., "Why Executive Power Centralizes Government," November 2004, revised May 2005. Published in Public Finance Review 33(6): 747-766 (November 2005).

8. Baker, Samuel H. and David H. Feldman, "Revealed Preference for Car Tax Cuts: An Empirical Study of Perceived Fiscal Incidence," November 2004. Forthcoming, Applied Economics.

7. Anderson, Lisa R., Jennifer M. Mellor, and Jeffrey Milyo, "Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology in Public Goods and Trust Games," November 2004. Published in Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Vol. 13: Experimental and Behavioral Economics, John Morgan, ed., Amsterdam: Elsevier, Ltd. (2005), 107-132.

6. Abegaz, Berhanu, "Poverty Trap in a Tributary Mode of Production: The Peasant Economy of Ethiopia," October 2004. Published in the Journal of Agrarian Change 5(3): 299-333 (July 2005).

5. Mellor, Jennifer M. and Jeffrey Milyo, "State Social Capital and Individual Health Status," September 2004. Published in Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 30(6): 1101-1130 (December 2005).

4. Basu, Arnab K. and Nancy H. Chau, "A Risk-Based Rationale for Two-Way Capital Flows: Why do Capital Flights and Inward Foreign Direct Investments Co-exist?" September 2004. Forthcoming in International Review of Economics and Finance.

3. Furstenberg, Eric, "Affirmative Action, Incentives and the Black-White Test Score Gap," September 2004.

2. Hicks, Robert L., "A Test of Benefits Transfer of Random Utility Models of Recreation Demand," July 2004.

1. Hicks, Robert L., "Recreational Fishing and the Benefits of Oyster Reef Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay," May 2004.

 

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