Details about Peter D Nencka

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Short-id: pne437

Working Papers

2026

1. Gambling with State Budgets: Legalized Sports Betting and Lost Lottery Revenue
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER
2. High Schools and the Uneven Rise in American Opportunity
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2026)

2025

3. Soccer’s Record on the Road: The Effect of Late-Night Sporting Events on Fatal Car Crashes
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER

2022

4. Do Pandemics Change Healthcare? Evidence from the Great Influenza
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (5)
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research (2022)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022) View citations (5)

2021

5. The Returns to Public Library Investment
   Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article The Returns to Public Library Investment, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association (2024) View citations (3) (2024)

2020

6. School Closures During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research (2020) View citations (11)
   See also Journal Article School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2024) View citations (5) (2024)

2019

7. ‘Novel’ Ideas: The Effects of Carnegie Libraries on Innovative Activities
   2019 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (3)

Journal Articles

2026

1. Knowledge Access: The Effects of Carnegie Libraries on Innovation
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2026, 108, (4), 967-982

2024

2. School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic
   (School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic)
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, (1), 266-276 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper School Closures During the 1918 Flu Pandemic, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (10) (2020)
3. The Returns to Public Library Investment
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16, (2), 78-109 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper The Returns to Public Library Investment, Working Paper Series (2021) View citations (4) (2021)

2023

4. The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names
   Explorations in Economic History, 2023, 87, (C) View citations (8)