Research
Working Papers
Fear and Loathing in the Classroom: Why Does Teacher Quality Matter?
with Michael Insler, Ahmed Rahman, and Katherine Smith
June 2022 (Under Review)
Gross FDI co-movement, Capital Diversity, and Welfare Gains from Financial Openness
with Jacek Rothert and Katherine Smith
October 2023 (Under Review)
FDI in the European (Monetary) Union: Welfare Gains of Reduced RER Volatility
with Jacek Rothert and Katherine Smith
Septmeber 2022 (updated draft coming soon)
Trade, FDI, and Welfare Effects from Dismantling Currency Barriers
with Jacek Rothert and Katherine Smith
May 2020
The Big Short: Labor Market Premia and Height
with Leighanne Basta, Michael Insler, Thomas Johnstone, and Katherine Smith
January 2022
The Social Costs of Trade: Death and Declining Distance
with David Vitt (Under Review)
Public Safety, Private Harm: The Impact of Police Militarization on Mortality
with David Vitt (Under Review)
Diversity Cleaves: Public Goods Provision and Soviet Emigration to Israel
June 2017
Capacity Constrained Exporters: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications
with JaeBin Ahn
July 2013
Publications
Markup Premia of Exporters: Because of Exporting, or In Spite of It?
with Loris Rubini
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 23 Issue 7, October 2019, pp.2959-3009
From Broken Windows to Broken Bonds: Militarized Police and Social Fragmentation
with Michael Insler and Bryce McMurrey
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, July 2019
Fiscal Decentralization, Fiscal Reform, and Economic Growth in China
with Yi Ding and Cem Karayalcin
China Economic Review, Volume 53, February 2019
The Thin Blue Line: Police Militarization and Violent Crime
with J. Britton Haynes Jr.
New York Economic Review, Vol. 49, Fall 2018
Trigger Warning: The Causal Impact of Gun Ownership on Suicide
with David Vitt, Charles Moore, and Stephen Sawyer
Applied Economics, Vol. 50 Issue 53, July 2018
Capacity Constrained Exporters: Identifying Increasing Marginal Cost
with JaeBin Ahn
Economic Inquiry , Vol. 55, Issue 3, July 2017
The Economics of Sainthood: A Preliminary Investigation
with Robert Barro and Rachel McCleary
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, 2011
Works in Progress
The Leftovers: The Spillover Effects of No Child Left Behind in Higher Education
with Ahmed Rahman and Katherine Smith
How Building the Panama Canal Benefited Health in the United States
with Darrell Glaser and Ahmed Rahman
