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Working Papers

2009

1. Government Form and Public Spending: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Municipalities
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
2. Partisan Control, Media Bias, and Viewer Responses: Evidence from Berlusconi's Italy
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
3. Pet Overpopulation: An Economic Analysis
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
   Also in Working Papers, Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics (2009)

2008

4. Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2007

5. Momentum and Social Learning in Presidential Primaries
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
6. Socially Optimal Districting: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration
   Working Papers, Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics View citations
   See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2007)

2006

7. Socially Optimal Districting: An Empirical Investigation
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
8. The Causes of Political Integration: An Application to School Districts
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2005

9. Socially Optimal Districting
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2004

10. A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2009)
11. Are Policy Platforms Capitalized into Equity Prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2007)
12. Bargaining in Legislatures: An Empirical Investigation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
13. Legislative Representation, Bargaining Power, and the Distribution of Federal Funds: Evidence from the U.S. Senate
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2003

14. Parochial Interests and the Centralized Provision of Local Public Goods: Evidence from Congressional Voting on Transportation Projects
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2004)

2002

15. State capital taxes and the location of investment: empirical lessons from theoretical models of tax competition
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) View citations

2000

16. The flypaper effect unstuck: evidence on endogenous grants from the Federal Highway Aid Program
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Journal Articles

2009

1. A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91, (1), 163-177 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2004)
2. A spatial merger estimator with an application to school district consolidation
   Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (5-6), 752-765

2008

3. Legislative Representation, Bargaining Power and The Distribution of Federal Funds: Evidence From The Us Congress
   Economic Journal, 2008, 118, (532), 1785-1803

2007

4. Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election
   Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91, (1-2), 389-409 View citations
   Also in Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90, (4-5), 751-773 (2006) View citations
   See also Working Paper (2004)
5. Erratum to "Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election" [J. Public Econ. 90 (4-5) (2006) 751-773]
   Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91, (1-2), 387-387
6. Socially Optimal Districting: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122, (4), 1409-1471 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2007)

2005

7. Estimating the Value of Proposal Power
   American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (5), 1639-1652 View citations

2004

8. Parochial interests and the centralized provision of local public goods: evidence from congressional voting on transportation projects
   Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88, (3-4), 845-866 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2003)

2002

9. Endogenous Federal Grants and Crowd-out of State Government Spending: Theory and Evidence from the Federal Highway Aid Program
   American Economic Review, 2002, 92, (1), 71-92 View citations

2000

10. Supermajority voting requirements for tax increases: evidence from the states
    Journal of Public Economics, 2000, 76, (1), 41-67 View citations