Publications

• Faculty at RePEc




Forthcoming



• Mary K. Olson. Eliminating the U.S. Drug Lag: Implications for Drug Safety. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
  


• Jonathan Pritchett and Mallorie Smith. Sequential Sales as a Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Slaves. Journal of Economic History.
  


• Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Increasing Fundraising Success by Decreasing Donors' Choice. Journal of Public Economic Theory.
  


• Steven Sheffrin. Tax Fairness and Folk Justice. Cambridge University Press.
  


• Douglas Nelson. Review of The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO, by John H. Barton, Judith L. Goldstein, Timothy E. Josling, and Richard H. Steinberg. European Journal of Political Economy.
  


• Thomas Lyon and Jay Shimshack. Environmental Disclosure: Evidence from Newsweek's Green Companies Rankings. Business and Society.
  


• James Alm and Keith Finlay. Who Benefits from Tax Evasion? Economic Analysis and Policy.
  




2013



• Claudiney Pereira and Luiz F. Maia-Filho. Brazilian Retail Banking and the 2008 Financial Crisis: Were the Government-Controlled Banks That Important? Journal of Banking and Finance 37(7): 2210-15.
  


• Nora Lustig, Luis F. Lopez-Calva, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez. Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. World Development 44: 129-41.
  


• Scott Cunningham and Keith Finlay. Parental Substance Use and Foster Care: Evidence from Two Methamphetamine Supply Shocks. Economic Inquiry 51(1): 764-82.
  


• Noel Gaston and Douglas Nelson. Bridging Trade Theory and Labour Econometrics: The Effects of International Migration. Journal of Economic Surveys 27(1): 98-139.
  


• Marco Castaneda and James Marton. Employer-Provided Health Insurance and the Adverse Selection Problem. Public Finance Review (41)1: 3-36.
  




2012



• James Alm, William H. Kaempfer, and Edward Batte Sennoga. Baseball Salaries and Income Taxes. Journal of Sports Economics 13(6): 619-34.
  


• James Alm, Todd L. Cherry, Michael Jones, and Michael McKee. Social Programs as Positive Inducements for Tax Participation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 84(1): 85-96.
  


• J. Sebastian Leguizamon. Estimating Implicit Marginal Tax Rates of Welfare Recipients across the US States. Public Finance Review 40(3): 401-30.
  


• Qiyan Ong, Yohanes Riyanto, and Steven Sheffrin. How Does Voice Matter? Evidence From the Ultimatum Game. Experimental Economics 15(4): 604-21.
  


• Alan Barreca and Jay Shimshack. Absolute Humidity, Temperature, and Influenza Mortality: 30 Years of County-Level Evidence from the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology 176(S7): S114-S122.
  


• Alan Barreca, Price Fishback, and Shawn Kantor. Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States. Explorations in Economic History 49(4): 381-98.
  


• Stefano Barbieri. Communication and Early Contributions. Journal of Public Economic Theory 14(3): 391-421.
  


• Markus Kitzmueller and Jay Shimshack. Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility. Journal of Economic Literature 50(1): 51-84.
  


• David Christafore and Susane Leguizamon. The Influence of Gay and Lesbian Coupled Households on House Prices in Conservative and Liberal Neighborhoods. Journal of Urban Economics 71(2): 258-67.
  


• Lopamudra Chakraborti and Kenneth E. McConnell. Does Ambient Water Quality Affect the Stringency of Regulations? Plant-Level Evidence of the Clean Water Act. Land Economics 88(3): 518-35.
  


• Simone Juhasz Silva and Douglas Nelson. Does Aid Cause Trade?: Evidence from an Asymmetric Gravity Model. World Economy 35(5): 545-77.
  


• Susane Leguizamon and Justin M. Ross. Revealed Preference for Relative Status: Evidence from the Housing Market. Journal of Housing Economics 21(1): 55-65.
  


• Alan Barreca. Climate Change, Humidity, and Mortality in the United States. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 63(1): 19-34.
  


• Peter Egger and Douglas Nelson. Introduction to Immigration Special Issue of The World Economy. World Economy 35(2): 107-110.
  


• Spiros Bougheas and Douglas Nelson. Skilled Worker Migration and Trade: Inequality and Welfare. World Economy 35(2): 197-215.
  


• Peter Egger, Maximilian von Ehrlich, and Douglas Nelson. Migration and Trade. World Economy 35(2): 216-241.
  


• John Edwards and Christian Langpap. Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Pollution, and Children’s Health. Environment and Development Economics 17(4): 379-406.
  


• James Alm. Measuring, Explaining, and Controlling Tax Evasion: Lessons from Theory, Field Studies, and Experiments. International Tax and Public Finance 19(1): 54-77.
  


• James Alm and H. Spencer Banzhaf. Designing Economic Instruments for the Environment in a Decentralized Fiscal System. Journal of Economic Surveys 26(2): 177-202.
  


• Carl Davidson, Steve Matusz, and Douglas Nelson. A Behavioral Model of Unemployment, Sociotropic Concerns, and the Political Economy of Trade Policy. Economics and Politics 24(1): 72-94.
  


• Sean Higgins. The Impact of Bolsa Familia on Poverty: Does Brazil's Conditional Cash Transfer Program Have a Rural Bias? Journal of Politics and Society 23(1): 88-125.
  




2011



• Alan Barreca, Melanie Guldi, Jason Lindo, and Glen R. Waddell. Saving Babies? Revisiting the Effect of Very Low Birth Weight Classification. Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(4): 2117-23.
  


• Peter Egger and Douglas Nelson. How Bad is Antidumping: Evidence from Panel Data. Review of Economics and Statistics 93(4): 1374-90.
  


• Timothy Beatty and Jay Shimshack. School Buses, Diesel Emissions, and Children's Health. Journal of Health Economics 30(5): 987-99.
  


• Leandro M. Magnusson. Inference in Limited Dependent Variable Models Robust to Weak Identification. Econometrics Journal 13(3): S56-S79.
  


• Yothin Jinjarak and Steven M. Sheffrin. Causality, Real Estate Prices, and the Current Account. Journal of Macroeconomics 33(2): 233-46.
  


• Nora Lustig. Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What Do We Lose? An Introduction to JOEI Forum on Multidimensional Poverty. Journal of Economic Inequality 9(2): 227-234.
  


• Nora Lustig. Multi-dimensional Indices of Achievement and Poverty: Comments. Journal of Economic Inequality 9(3): 469-469.
  


• James Alm, Robert D. Buschman, and David L. Sjoquist. Rethinking Local Government Reliance on the Property Tax. Regional Science and Urban Economics 41(4): 320-31.
  


• James Alm and Janet Rogers. Do State Fiscal Policies Affect Economic Growth? Public Finance Review 39(4): 483-526.
  


• Wayne Gray and Jay Shimshack. The Effectiveness of Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement: A Review of the Empirical Evidence. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 5(1): 3-24.
  


• James Alm, Robert D. Buschman, and David L. Sjoquist. Citizen "Trust" as an Explanation of State Education Funding to Local School Districts. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 41(4): 636-61.
  


• Peter Egger and Douglas Nelson. Foreign Partners and Finance Constraints: The Case of Chinese Firms. World Economy 34(5): 687–706.
  


• Noel Gaston and Douglas Nelson. International Migration. In Daniel Bernhofen, Rod Falvey, David Greenaway, and Udo Kreickemeier, editors. Palgrave Handbook of International Trade. London: Palgrave.
  


• James Alm, editor. The Economics of Taxation, Volumes I and II. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  


• Chris Jones, Oliver Morrisey, and Douglas Nelson. Did the World Bank Drive Tariff Reforms in Eastern Africa? World Development 39(3): 324-35.
  


• Arthur O'Sullivan, Stephen J. Perez, and Steven M. Sheffrin. Economics: Principles, Applications, and Tools, Seventh Edition. Pearson Publishers.
  


• Daniel A. Powers, Hirotoshi Yoshioka, and Myeong-Su Yun. mvdcmp: Multivariate Decomposition for Nonlinear Response Models. Stata Journal 11(4): 556-576.
  


• Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun. Gender and Ethnicity in Post-Conflict Kosovo. In Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, and Mark McGillivray, editors. Fragile States: Causes, Costs, and Responses. Oxford University Press.
  


• Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, and Myeong-Su Yun. Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between OBCs and Other Social Groups in India. Economic and Political Weekly 46(39): 43-51.
  




2010



• James Alm and Sally Wallace. Taxpayer Reporting Responses and the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Public Budgeting and Finance 30(3): 1-26.
  


• James Alm. Testing Behavioral Public Economics Theories in the Laboratory. National Tax Journal 63(4, Part 1): 635-58.
  


• James Alm and Edward Sennoga. Mobility, Competition, and the Distributional Effects of Tax Evasion. National Tax Journal 63(4, Part 2): 1055-84.
  


• Timothy Beatty and Jay Shimshack. The Impact of Climate Change Information: New Evidence from the Stock Market. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 10(1, Contributions): Article 105.
  


• Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Threshold Uncertainty in the Private-Information Subscription Game. Journal of Public Economics 94(11-12): 848-61.
  


• Jay Shimshack and Michael B. Ward. Mercury Advisories and Household Health Trade-offs? Journal of Health Economics 29(5): 674-85.
  


• Alan Barreca. The Long-Term Economic Impact of In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to Malaria. Journal of Human Resources 45(4): 865-92.
  


• Keith Finlay and David Neumark. Is Marriage Always Better for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration. Journal of Human Resources 45(4): 1046-88.
  


• Christian Langpap and Jay Shimshack. Private Citizen Suits and Public Enforcement: Substitutes or Complements? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 59(3): 235-49.
  


• Leandro M. Magnusson and Sophocles Mavroeidis. Identification-Robust Minimum Distance Estimation of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 42(2): 465-81.
  


• John R. Bowblis and Myeong-Su Yun. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Drug Therapy. Social Science Research 39(4): 674-84.
  


• Luis Felipe López-Calva and Nora Lustig, editors. Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?. Washington: Brookings Institution Press.
  


• Magali Delmas, Maria Montes-Sancho, and Jay Shimshack. Information Disclosure Policies: Evidence from the Electricity Industry. Economic Inquiry 48(2): 483-98.
  


• Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Profit-Maximizing Sale of a Discrete Public Good via the Subscription Game in Private-Information Environments. B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 10(1, Contributions): Article 5.
  


• Ira N. Gang, Francisco Rivera-Batiz, and Myeong-Su Yun. Changes in Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe: Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall. In Gil Epstein and Ira N. Gang, editors. Migration and Culture: Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, volume 8. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
  


• Noel Gaston and Douglas Nelson. The Politics of (Anti-)Globalization: What Do We Learn from Simple Models? In Noel Gaston and Ahmed Khalid, editors. Globalization and Economic Integration: Winners and Losers in the Asia-Pacific. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
  




2009



• Charles Calomiris and Jonathan Pritchett. Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market. Journal of Economic History 69(4): 986-1011.
  


• Keith Finlay and Leandro M. Magnusson. Implementing Weak Instrument Robust Tests for a General Class of Instrumental Variables Models. Stata Journal 9(3): 398-421.
  


• Keith Finlay. Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders. In David H. Autor, editor, Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, pp. 89-125. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and NBER.
  


• Stefano Barbieri and Andrea Mattozzi. Membership in Citizen Groups. Games and Economic Behavior 67(1): 217-32.
  


• Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun. Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo. Comparative Economic Studies 51(2): 242-64.
  


• Daniel A. Powers and Myeong-Su Yun. Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models. Sociological Methodology 39(1): 233-63.
  


• Mary K. Olson. PDUFA and Initial U.S. Drug Launches. Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 15(2): 393-416.
  


• Kevin Lander and Jonathan Pritchett. When to Care: The Economic Rationale of Slavery Health Care Provision. Social Science History 33(2): 155-82.
  


• Jonathan B. Pritchett and Myeong-Su Yun. The In-hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855-1860. Explorations in Economic History 46(2): 241-52.
  


• John Landon-Lane, Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun. Measuring Income Assimilation of Migrants to Germany. Schmollers Jahrbuch (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies).
  


• Myeong-Su Yun. Wage Differentials, Discrimination and Inequality: A Cautionary Note on the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce Decomposition Method. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 56(1): 114-22.
  




2008



• Luciana C. Fiorini. Overlapping Generations and Idiosyncratic Risk: Can Prices Reveal the Best Policy? Journal of Mathematical Economics 44(12): 1312-20.
  


• Marco Castaneda and Dino Falaschetti. Does a Hospital's Profit Status Affect its Operational Scope? Review of Industrial Organization 33(2): 129-59.
  


• Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good: Efficient Equilibria in the Private-Information Contribution Game. Economic Theory 37(1): 51-80.
  


• Marco Castaneda, John Garen, and Jeremy Thornton. Competition, Contractibility, and the Market for Donors to Non-Profits. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 24(1): 215-46.
  


• Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good: Continuous-Strategy Equilibria in the Private-Information Subscription Game. Journal of Public Economic Theory 10(4): 529-45.
  


• Marco Castaneda and James Marton. A Model of Commodity Differentiation with Indivisibilities and Production. Economic Theory 34(1): 85-106.
  


• Mary K. Olson. The Risk We Bear: The Effects of Review Speed and Industry User Fees on New Drug Safety. Journal of Health Economics 27(2): 175-200.
  


• Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, and Myeong-Su Yun. Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe. Review of Income and Wealth 54(1): 50-70.
  


• Myeong-Su Yun. Identification Problem and Detailed Oaxaca Decomposition: A General Solution and Inference. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 33(1): 27-38.
  


• Myeong-Su Yun. Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique. In William A. Darity, Jr., editor, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 332-34.
  


• Ira N. Gang and Myeong-Su Yun. Immigration Amnesty and Immigrant's Earnings. Research in Labor Economics 27: 273-309.