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16-17: Strip Clubs, “Secondary Effects,†and Residential Property Prices

Taggert Brooks, Brad Humphreys and Adam Nowak

16-16: Theory of Mind Predicts Cooperative Behavior

Gregory DeAngelo and Bryan McCannon

16-15: Barber Licensure and the Supply of Barber Shops: Evidence from US States

Joshua Hall and Shree Pokharel

16-14: Honest Abe or Doc Holliday? Bluffing in Bargaining

Gregory DeAngelo and Bryan McCannon

16-13: The Impact of Microfinance on Pro-Social Behaviors: Experimental Evidence of Public Goods Contributions in Uganda

Bryan McCannon and Zachary Rodriguez

16-12: Endogenous Competence and a Limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem

Bryan McCannon and Paul Walker

16-11: Voting Behavior on Carbon Pollution from Power Plants

Joshua Hall, Elham Erfanian and Caleb Stair

16-10: A Lasting Effect of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Orphans and Pro-Social Behavior

Bryan McCannon and Zachary Rodriguez

16-09: Does the Median Voter or Special Interests Determine State Highway Expenditures? Recent Evidence

Joshua Hall and Shree Pokharel

16-08: Do Psychological Traits Explain Differences in Free Riding?

Gregory DeAngelo, Hannes Lang and Bryan McCannon

16-07: Tax Expenditures: A Review and Analysis

Joshua Hall

16-06: The Roots of Broadened Stock Ownership

Joshua Hall

16-05: Investment in Education: Private and Public Returns

Joshua Hall

16-04: Designing Policies to Spur Economic Growth: How Regional Scientists Can Contribute to Future Policy Development and Evaluation

Carlianne Patrick, Amanda Ross and Heather Stephens

16-03: Collective Bargaining and School District Test Scores: Evidence from Ohio Bargaining Agreements

Joshua Hall, Donald Lacombe and Joylynn Pruitt

16-02: Does the Presence of Professional Football Cause Crime in a City? Evidence from Pontiac, Michigan

Joshua Hall and Hyunqoong Pyun

16-01: Police Bias in the Enforcement of Drug Crimes: Evidence from Low Priority Laws

Gregory DeAngelo, R. Gittings, Amanda Ross and Annie Walker

15-51: What Matters More for Economic Development, the Amount of Funding or the Number of Projects Funded? Evidence from the Community Development Financial Investment Fund

Kaitlyn Harger, Amanda Ross and Heather Stephens

15-50: The Political Economy of Soda Taxation

Sriparna Ghosh and Joshua Hall

15-49: An Inventory of Sports Economics Courses in the US

Brad Humphreys, Joshua Hall and Hyunwoong Pyun

15-48: Monoposony Exploitation in Professional Sport: Evidence from Major League Baseball Position Players, 2000-2011

Brad Humphreys and Hyunwoong Pyun

15-47: Was Adam Smith Right About Religious Competition?

Peter Boettke, Joshua Hall and Kathleen Sheehan

15-46: Estimation of a Partially Linear Regression in Triangular Systems

Xin Geng, Carlos Martins-Filho and Feng Yao

15-45: An Investigation of Confucius Institute’s Effects on China’s OFDI via Cultural Difference and Institutional Quality

Chensheng Xu, Feng Yao and Fan Zhang

15-44: The Effect of Urban Empowerment Zones on Fertility and Health: A Case Study of Chicago, New York City, and Philadelphia

Daniel Grossman

15-43: Economic Freedom, Race, and Health Disparities: Evidence from US States

Joshua Hall, Brad Humphreys and Jane Ruseski

15-42: Higher Education Accreditation: Market Regulation or Government Regulation Revisited

Joshua Hall

15-41: Hospitalitas

Andrew Young

15-40: Institutional Convergence: Exit or Voice?

Joshua Hall

15-39: The Liberal Arts and Scholarship on the Fiscal Effects of Statehood

Joshua Hall

15-38: Effects of Acid Rain Regulations on Production of Eastern Coals of Varying Sulfur Content

Stratford Douglas and Seth Wiggins

15-37: The Political Economy of Local Fracking Bans

Joshua Hall, Christopher Shultz and E. Frank Stephenson

15-36: Physical Activity, Present Bias, and Habit Formation: Theory and Evidence From Longitudinal Data

Brad Humphreys, Jane Ruseski and Li Zhou

15-35: Determinants of Voting Behavior on the Keystone XL Pipeline

Joshua Hall and Chris Shultz

15-34: Textual Analysis in Real Estate

Adam Nowak and Patrick Smith

15-33: Economic Freedom and Economic Growth Across U.S. States: A Spatial Panel Data Analysis

Joshua Hall, Donald Lacombe and Timothy Shaughnessy

15-32: Do New Sports Facilities Attract New Businesses?

Kaitlyn Harger, Brad Humphreys and Amanda Ross

15-31: Jack Soper: A Pioneer in Economic Education

J.R. Clark, Joshua Hall and Ashley Harrison

15-30: Explaining the Worldwide Decline in Military Conscription: 1970-2010

Danko Tarabar and Joshua Hall

15-29: Nonpublic Competition and Public School Performance: Evidence from West Virginia

Richard Cebula, Joshua Hall and Maria Tackett

15-28: Small Business Borrowing and Peer-to-Peer Lending: Evidence from Lending Club

Adam Nowak, Amanda Ross and Christopher Yencha

15-27: Constitutional Bargaining, Eminent Domain, and the Quality of Contemporary African Institutions: A Test of the Incremental Reform Hypothesis

Roger Congleton and Dongwoo Yoo

15-26: Financial Competence, Overconfidence, and Trusting Investments: Results from an Experiment

Bryan McCannon, Colleen Asaad and Mark Wilson

15-25: On the Evolution of Organizational Governance: Divided Governance and Survival in the Long Run

Roger Congleton

15-24: Leadership and Motivation for Public Goods Contributions

Bryan McCannon

15-23: The Logic of Collective Action and Beyond

Roger Congleton

15-22: Role of Personality Style on Bargaining Outcomes

Bryan McCannon and John Stevens

15-21: On the Political Economy of Privacy: Information Sharing between Friends and Foes

Roger Congleton

15-20: Replacement Referees and NFL Betting Markets

Bryan McCannon

15-19: Bargaining in the Shadow of Arbitration

Ricardo Marselli, Bryan McCannon and Marco Vannini