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Working Papers

2006

1. Individual Teacher Incentives And Student Performance
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2007)

2001

2. Tax Systems in the World - An Empirical Investigation into the Importance of Tax Bases, Collection Costs, and Political Regime
   Carleton Economic Papers, Carleton University, Department of Economics View citations

1989

3. VOTING LAWS, EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND MINORITY TURNOUT
   Working Papers, Florida - College of Business Administration View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Law & Economics (1991)

1978

4. Explaining Movements in Completed Fertility Across Cohorts
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
5. Male Wage Rates and Marital Status
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Journal Articles

2009

1. Public sector performance measurement and stakeholder support
   Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (9-10), 1069-1077

2008

2. Does restricting choice in referenda enable governments to spend more?
   Public Choice, 2008, 136, (1), 87-101

2007

3. Evidence on voter preferences from unrestricted choice referendums
   Public Choice, 2007, 131, (1), 197-215 View citations
4. Explaining when developing countries liberalize their financial equity markets
   Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2007, 17, (4), 387-402
5. Individual teacher incentives and student performance
   Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91, (5-6), 901-914 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2006

6. Tax Systems in the World: An Empirical Investigation into the Importance of Tax Bases, Administration Costs, Scale and Political Regime
   International Tax and Public Finance, 2006, 13, (2), 181-215 View citations

2005

7. Evidence on the importance of spatial voting models in presidential nominations and elections
   Public Choice, 2005, 123, (3), 439-462
8. The public choice of educational choice
   Public Choice, 2005, 124, (1), 205-222

2004

9. Political economy of the inequality in school spending
   Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 55, (2), 338-349 View citations

2002

10. The Legacy of Serrano: The Impact of Mandated Equal Spending on Private School Enrollment
    Southern Economic Journal, 2002, 68, (3), 566-583 View citations

2000

11. Evidence on the Impact of State Government on Primary and Secondary Education and the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off
    Journal of Law & Economics, 2000, 43, (1), 285-308 View citations

1999

12. Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?
    Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 107, (6), 1163-1198 View citations
13. The ineffectiveness of school inputs: a product of misspecification?
    Economics of Education Review, 1999, 19, (1), 27-45 View citations

1997

14. The Effect of the Expansion of the Voting Franchise on the Size of Government
    Journal of Political Economy, 1997, 105, (1), 54-82 View citations
15. The Role of Tax Bases and Collections Costs in the Determination of Income Tax Rates, Seigniorage and Inflation
    Public Choice, 1997, 92, (1-2), 75-90 View citations

1996

16. A Comparison of Costs in Privately Owned and Publicly Owned Electric Utilities: The Role of Scale
    Land Economics, 1996, 72, (1), 56-65 View citations
17. Evidence on Electoral Accountability in the U.S. Senate: Are Unfaithful Agents Really Punished?
    Economic Inquiry, 1996, 34, (3), 545-67 View citations

1995

18. Constituent Errors in Assessing Their Senators
    Public Choice, 1995, 83, (3-4), 251-71 View citations

1994

19. An explanation for why senators from the same state vote differently so frequently
    Journal of Public Economics, 1994, 54, (1), 65-96 View citations
20. The Decline in the Number of School Districts in the U.S.: 1950-1980
    Public Choice, 1994, 79, (1-2), 1-18 View citations

1991

21. Cross-Country Estimates of the Demand for Money and Its Components
    Economic Inquiry, 1991, 29, (4), 696-705 View citations
22. Voting Laws, Educational Policies, and Minority Turnout
    Journal of Law & Economics, 1991, 34, (2), 371-93
    See also Working Paper (1989)

1986

23. Optimal Tenure of Elected Public Officials
    Journal of Law & Economics, 1986, 29, (2), 303-28 View citations

1983

24. The Accumulation of Human Capital during Marriage by Males
    Economic Inquiry, 1983, 21, (2), 223-31 View citations

1982

25. A Model of Optimal Plant Size with an Application to the Demand for Cognitive Achievement and for School Size
    Economic Inquiry, 1982, 20, (2), 240-54
26. Economies of scale in schooling
    Economics of Education Review, 1982, 2, (1), 1-24 View citations

1980

27. Compensating differentials in teachers' salaries
    Journal of Urban Economics, 1980, 7, (2), 198-207 View citations
28. Voter Reaction to City-County Consolidation Referenda
    Journal of Law & Economics, 1980, 23, (1), 179-90 View citations

1979

29. Returns to College Education: An Investigation of Self-Selection Bias Based on the Project Talent Data
    International Economic Review, 1979, 20, (3), 775-89 View citations