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Working Papers

2024

1. Monopsony and Local Religious Clubs: Evidence from Indonesia
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

2018

2. The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (24)
   Also in Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. (2018) View citations (24)
   See also Journal Article The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism, Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press (2023) View citations (8) (2023)

2013

3. Regulatory Enforcement, Politics, and Institutional Distance: OSHA Inspections 1990-2010
   Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics

2012

4. Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
   Also in Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics (2012)
   See also Journal Article Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law, Public Choice, Springer (2014) (2014)

2011

5. An Agent-Based Model of Centralized Institutions, Social Network Technology, and Revolution
   Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article An Agent-Based Model of Centralized Institutions, Social Network Technology, and Revolution, PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science (2013) (2013)

2010

6. A Theory of Liberal Churches
   Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article A theory of liberal churches, Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier (2011) (2011)
7. Emergent Pareto-Levy Distributed Returns to Research in a Multi-Agent Model of Endogenous Technical Change
   Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics
8. Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs
   Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2013) View citations (64) (2013)
9. Political Costs and Fiscal Benefits: The Political Economy of Residential Property Value Assessment
   Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
10. Religion, Clubs, and Emergent Social Divides
    Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    Also in MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2009) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Religion, clubs, and emergent social divides, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2011) View citations (6) (2011)

2009

11. More Tickets, Fewer Accidents: How Cash-Strapped Towns Make for Safer Roads
    Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    Also in MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2008) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article More Tickets, Fewer Accidents: How Cash-Strapped Towns Make for Safer Roads, Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press (2011) View citations (26) (2011)
12. Religious Extremism, Clubs, and Civil Liberties: A Model of Religious Populations
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

2005

13. An Agent-Based Model of Mortality Shocks, Intergenerational Effects, and Urban Crime
    Computing in Economics and Finance 2005, Society for Computational Economics
    See also Journal Article An Agent-Based Model of Mortality Shocks, Intergenerational Effects, and Urban Crime, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (2006) View citations (1) (2006)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Lame duck law enforcement
   Economics Letters, 2024, 238, (C)

2023

2. Firearms and Lynching
   Journal of Law and Economics, 2023, 66, (2), 259 - 278
3. The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism
   Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58, (5), 1712-1751 View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (24) (2018)

2019

4. To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement
   The Journal of Legal Studies, 2019, 48, (1), 189 - 216 View citations (10)

2018

5. Embezzlement, whistleblowing, and organizational architecture: An experimental investigation
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 147, (C), 58-75 View citations (13)
6. Identifying the relationship between length of hospital stay and the probability of readmission
   Applied Economics Letters, 2018, 25, (6), 375-380

2016

7. The evolution of power and the divergence of cooperative norms
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126, (PA), 75-88 View citations (4)

2015

8. INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE, PRICE DISPERSION, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF RETURNS TO INNOVATION
   Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, 19, (2), 334-362

2014

9. Playing with other people's money: Contributions to public goods by trustees
   Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2014, 53, (C), 44-55 View citations (8)
10. Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law
    Public Choice, 2014, 160, (1), 131-153
    See also Working Paper Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law, CESifo Working Paper Series (2012) (2012)
11. The determinants of federal and state enforcement of workplace safety regulations: OSHA inspections 1990–2010
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2014, 45, (1), 1-33 View citations (5)

2013

12. An Agent-Based Model of Centralized Institutions, Social Network Technology, and Revolution
    PLOS ONE, 2013, 8, (11), 1-10
    See also Working Paper An Agent-Based Model of Centralized Institutions, Social Network Technology, and Revolution, Working Papers (2011) View citations (3) (2011)
13. Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs
    The Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80, (4), 1215-1236 View citations (64)
    See also Working Paper Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs, Working Papers (2010) View citations (8) (2010)
14. Political costs and fiscal benefits: The political economy of residential property value assessment under Proposition 212
    Economics Letters, 2013, 120, (3), 359-363 View citations (1)

2012

15. EMERGENT EXTREMISM IN A MULTI‐AGENT MODEL OF RELIGIOUS CLUBS
    Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50, (2), 327-347 View citations (8)

2011

16. A theory of liberal churches
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 2011, 61, (1), 41-51
    See also Working Paper A Theory of Liberal Churches, Working Papers (2010) View citations (1) (2010)
17. More Tickets, Fewer Accidents: How Cash-Strapped Towns Make for Safer Roads
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2011, 54, (4), 863 - 888 View citations (26)
    See also Working Paper More Tickets, Fewer Accidents: How Cash-Strapped Towns Make for Safer Roads, Working Papers (2009) View citations (1) (2009)
18. Religion, clubs, and emergent social divides
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, 80, (1), 74-87 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Religion, Clubs, and Emergent Social Divides, Working Papers (2010) View citations (1) (2010)

2010

19. Price dispersion and increasing returns to scale
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 73, (3), 406-417

2009

20. From scholarly idea to budgetary institution: the emergence of cost-benefit analysis
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2009, 20, (1), 57-70 View citations (2)
21. Political Economy at Any Speed: What Determines Traffic Citations?
    American Economic Review, 2009, 99, (1), 509-27 View citations (52)

2006

22. An Agent-Based Model of Mortality Shocks, Intergenerational Effects, and Urban Crime
    Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2006, 9, (2), 7 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper An Agent-Based Model of Mortality Shocks, Intergenerational Effects, and Urban Crime, Computing in Economics and Finance 2005 (2005) (2005)

Chapters

2022

1. Not as I Do: Hypocrisy Aversion and Optimal Punishment of Common Offenses
   A chapter in Experimental Law and Economics, 2022, vol. 21, pp 165-200

2019

2. When Average Is Irrelevant: Computational Modeling of Religious Groups
   Palgrave Macmillan