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Working Papers

2024

1. Narrow paths out of poverty and educational demand: Evidence from Dominican baseball
   Working Papers, Wake Forest University, Economics Department
   See also Journal Article Narrow Paths Out of Poverty and Educational Demand: Evidence from Dominican Baseball, Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press (2026) (2026)

2017

2. Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?
   Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics View citations (23)
   See also Journal Article Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?, Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2018) View citations (162) (2018)

Journal Articles

2026

1. Narrow Paths Out of Poverty and Educational Demand: Evidence from Dominican Baseball
   Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2026, 74, (2), 747 - 775
   See also Working Paper Narrow paths out of poverty and educational demand: Evidence from Dominican baseball, Working Papers (2024) (2024)

2025

2. The inefficacy of land titling programs: homesteading in Haiti, 1933–1950
   Public Choice, 2025, 203, (1), 277-303
3. Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean. By David Allen Harvey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. $64.95, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2025, 85, (2), 612-614
4. VancUber: The long‐run effect of ride‐hailing on public transportation, congestion, and traffic fatalities
   Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2025, 58, (3), 892-939

2024

5. “A Whirligig of Revolutionary Presidents”: state capacity, political stability, and business in Haiti, 1905–1927
   European Review of Economic History, 2024, 28, (3), 375-398

2023

6. State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949
   The Journal of Economic History, 2023, 83, (3), 709-746 View citations (1)
7. The forces of path dependence: Haiti's refugee camps, 1937–2009
   Explorations in Economic History, 2023, 89, (C) View citations (1)

2022

8. The medium‐run effects of a foreign election intervention: Haiti's presidential elections, 2010–2015
   Contemporary Economic Policy, 2022, 40, (2), 369-390

2021

9. Small Farms, Large Transaction Costs: Haiti’s Missing Sugar
   The Journal of Economic History, 2021, 81, (2), 513-548 View citations (2)

2018

10. Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?
    Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 108, (C), 36-50 View citations (162)
    See also Working Paper Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?, Working Papers (2017) View citations (23) (2017)
11. Wealth and Disaster: Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Pierre Force. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii, 230. $45.00, Kindle. doi: 10.1017/S0022050718000219
    The Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78, (2), 635-636

2017

12. Smartphones and child injuries
    Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 156, (C), 200-213 View citations (3)
13. The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica. By Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. 350. $45.00, cloth
    The Journal of Economic History, 2017, 77, (3), 958-959

2014

14. Technological Change, Relative Worker Productivity, and Firm-Level Substitution
    Journal of Sports Economics, 2014, 15, (5), 478-496 View citations (2)

2013

15. RATINGS AND REVENUES: EVIDENCE FROM MOVIE RATINGS
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31, (1), 13-21 View citations (7)
16. Taxing the Opposition: Cactus League Attendance and the Efficiency of the ‘Cubs Tax’
    International Journal of Sport Finance, 2013, 8, (2), 157-170