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Working Papers

2024

1. How State Occupational Licenses Affect Jobs and Salaries
   Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center

2022

2. RegAuthorities: The Regulations Authorities Database, A Dataset
   Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center

2021

3. Industry Size and Regulation: Evidence from US States
   Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Industry size and regulation: Evidence from US states, Public Choice, Springer (2022) View citations (1) (2022)
4. Regulation and Economic Growth: Evidence from British Columbia’s Experiment in Regulatory Budgeting
   Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center View citations (1)

2020

5. Is Dodd-Frank the Biggest Law Ever?
   Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center
   See also Journal Article Is Dodd-Frank the Biggest Law Ever?, Journal of Financial Regulation, Oxford University Press (2021) View citations (1) (2021)
6. Larger Polities Are More Regulated
   Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center
7. Online Appendix to "The Cumulative Cost of Regulations"
   Online Appendices, Review of Economic Dynamics View citations (23)
   See also Journal Article The Cumulative Cost of Regulations, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics (2020) View citations (30) (2020)
8. Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Dynamism
   Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center
   See also Journal Article Regulation, entrepreneurship, and dynamism, Empirical Economics, Springer (2023) View citations (1) (2023)
9. Three Myths about Federal Regulation
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Three Myths about Federal Regulation, Annals of Computational Economics, George Mason University, Mercatus Center (2020) View citations (2) (2020)

2019

10. Performance Standards vs. Design Standards: Facilitating a Shift toward Best Practices
    Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center
11. RegData: Australia
    Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center

2018

12. Regulation and Poverty: An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between the Incidence of Federal Regulation and the Occurrence of Poverty across the States
    Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center
    See also Journal Article Regulation and poverty: an empirical examination of the relationship between the incidence of federal regulation and the occurrence of poverty across the US states, Public Choice, Springer (2019) View citations (17) (2019)
13. Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Size
    Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Regulation, entrepreneurship, and firm size, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer (2022) View citations (6) (2022)

2016

14. Regulation and Income Inequality: The Regressive Effects of Entry Regulations
    Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center View citations (4)
15. The Cumulative Cost of Regulations
    Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article The Cumulative Cost of Regulations, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics (2020) View citations (30) (2020)
16. The Regulatory Determinants of Railroad Safety
    Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article The Regulatory Determinants of Railroad Safety, Review of Industrial Organization, Springer (2016) View citations (2) (2016)

Journal Articles

2025

1. On the Design of a Regulatory System
   Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2025, 16, (S1), 139-143
2. Re-evaluating the labor market effects of occupational licensing: Longitudinal evidence across states
   Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025, 12, (1), 1-9 View citations (1)

2023

3. Regulation, entrepreneurship, and dynamism
   Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, (5), 2449-2466 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Dynamism, Working Papers (2020) (2020)
4. Regulatory System Design: Some Solutions to the Delegation Problem
   Annals of Computational Economics, 2023

2022

5. A Synergetic Framework for Green and Lean Manufacturing Practices in SMEs: Saudi Arabia Perspective
   Sustainability, 2022, 15, (1), 1-33
6. Census of Regulatory Restrctions
   Annals of Computational Economics, 2022
7. Industry size and regulation: Evidence from US states
   Public Choice, 2022, 192, (1), 1-27 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Industry Size and Regulation: Evidence from US States, Working Papers (2021) View citations (1) (2021)
8. Regulation, entrepreneurship, and firm size
   Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2022, 61, (2), 108-134 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Size, Working Papers (2018) View citations (3) (2018)
9. Three Misconceptions about Federal Regulation
   Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2022, 13, (3), 287-309

2021

10. Is Dodd-Frank the Biggest Law Ever?
    Journal of Financial Regulation, 2021, 7, (1), 149-174 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Is Dodd-Frank the Biggest Law Ever?, Working Papers (2020) (2020)

2020

11. The Cumulative Cost of Regulations
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 2020, 38, 1-21 View citations (30)
    See also Working Paper The Cumulative Cost of Regulations, Working Papers (2016) View citations (7) (2016)
    Working Paper Online Appendix to "The Cumulative Cost of Regulations", Online Appendices (2020) View citations (23) (2020)
    Software Item Code and data files for "The Cumulative Cost of Regulations", Computer Codes (2020) (2020)
12. Three Myths about Federal Regulation
    Annals of Computational Economics, 2020 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Three Myths about Federal Regulation, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (2) (2020)

2019

13. Barriers to prosperity: the harmful impact of entry regulations on income inequality
    Public Choice, 2019, 180, (1), 165-190 View citations (19)
14. Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2019, 30, (2), 211-234 View citations (4)
15. RegData 2.2: a panel dataset on US federal regulations
    Public Choice, 2019, 180, (1), 43-55 View citations (6)
16. Regulation and poverty: an empirical examination of the relationship between the incidence of federal regulation and the occurrence of poverty across the US states
    Public Choice, 2019, 180, (1), 131-144 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper Regulation and Poverty: An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between the Incidence of Federal Regulation and the Occurrence of Poverty across the States, Working Papers (2018) (2018)

2018

17. Legislative Impact Accounting: Incorporating Prospective and Retrospective Review into a Regulatory Budget
    Public Budgeting & Finance, 2018, 38, (2), 40-60 View citations (1)

2017

18. RegData: A numerical database on industry‐specific regulations for all United States industries and federal regulations, 1997–2012
    Regulation & Governance, 2017, 11, (1), 109-123 View citations (35)

2016

19. The Effect on Lawyers Income of Gender Information Contained in First Names
    Review of Law & Economics, 2016, 12, (1), 57-76
20. The Regulatory Determinants of Railroad Safety
    Review of Industrial Organization, 2016, 49, (2), 371-398 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper The Regulatory Determinants of Railroad Safety, Working Papers (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2014

21. A hidden cost of war: the impact of mobilizing reserve troops on emergency response times
    Public Choice, 2014, 161, (3), 289-303 View citations (1)

2013

22. Continuity, change, and priorities: The quality and use of regulatory analysis across US administrations
    Regulation & Governance, 2013, 7, (2), 153-173 View citations (5)

2012

23. Regulators and Redskins
    Public Choice, 2012, 153, (1), 191-204 View citations (14)
24. The Quality and Use of Regulatory Analysis in 2008
    Risk Analysis, 2012, 32, (5), 855-880 View citations (10)

2011

25. Something in the Water? Testing for Groundwater Quality Information in the Housing Market
    Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2011, 36, (2), 20 View citations (2)
26. The consequences of midnight regulations and other surges in regulatory activity
    Public Choice, 2011, 147, (3), 395-412 View citations (6)

2009

27. Do Masculine Names Help Female Lawyers Become Judges? Evidence from South Carolina
    American Law and Economics Review, 2009, 11, (1), 112-133 View citations (4)

2008

28. Do Economic Integration Agreements Actually Work? Issues in Understanding the Causes and Consequences of the Growth of Regionalism
    The World Economy, 2008, 31, (4), 461-497 View citations (100)

Software Items

2020

1. Code and data files for "The Cumulative Cost of Regulations"
   Computer Codes, Review of Economic Dynamics
   See also Journal Article The Cumulative Cost of Regulations, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics (2020) View citations (30) (2020)