Faculty Publications by topic

Agricultural economics

COVID/Pandemics

• Bojanic, A. N., & Jordán, A. (2020). Modeling the COVID-19 epidemic in Bolivia. Big Data & Information Analytics. 5(1), 47-57. http://www.aimspress.com/article/10.3934/bdia.2020004
• Bui, T. T. M., Button P., & Picciotti, E. G. (forthcoming). Early Evidence on the Impacts of COVID-19 and the Recession on Older Workers. Public Policy & Aging Report. (NBER Working Paper No. 27448). from https://www.nber.org/papers/w27448
• Ziedan, E., Simon, K., & C., Wing (2020). Effects of State COVID-19 Closure Policy on NON-COVID-19 Health Care Utilization. (NBER Working Paper No. 27621). from https://www.nber.org/papers/w27621

Crime

• Long, W. & Cheng, C. (2018). Improving Police Services: Evidence from the French Quarter Task Force. Journal of Public Economics. 164, 1 - 18 (lead article). from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272718300847

Discrimination

• Burn, I., Button, P., Corella, L.M., & Neumark, D. (Forthcoming). Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring? Journal of Labor Economics. https://doi.org/10.1086/717730.
• Testa, P. (forthcoming). The economic legacy of expulsion: Lessons from postwar Czechoslovakia, Conditionally Accepted at the Economic Journal. from https://ssrn.com/abstract=3251541
• Testa, P. (forthcoming). Shocks and the spatial distribution of economic activity: The role of institutions, Conditionally Accepted at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.10.021
• Button, P., & Walker, B. (2020). Employment Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment. Labour Economics 65(4). (Pre-Publication Version). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101851
• Neumark, D., Burn, I., and Button, P. (2019). Is it Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment. Journal of Political Economy. 127(2), 922-970. https://doi.org/10.1086/701029
• Button, P. (2018). Expanding Employment Discrimination Protections for Individuals with Disabilities: Evidence from California. ILR Review. 71(2), 365-93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793917716633

Econometrics

• Long, W., Yan, B., Peng, L. & Cai, Z. (forthcoming). Testing the Predictability of U.S. Housing Price Index Returns Based on an IVX-AR Model. Journal of the American Statistical Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2019.1686392
• Denteh, A., Nguimkeu, P., & Tchernis, R. (2019). On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting. Journal of Econometrics. 208(2), 487-506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2018.10.005
• Long, W., Liu, G., Zhang, X., & Li, Q. (2019). Detecting Financial Data Dependent Structure by Averaging Mixture Copula. Econometric Theory. 35, 777 - 815. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266466618000270
• Long, W., Li, D., & Li, Q. (2016). Testing Explosive Behavior in the Gold Market. Empirical Economics. 51(3), 1151-1164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-015-1030-z
• Long, W., Green, C., & Hsiao, C. (2015). Testing Error Serial Correlation in Fixed Effects Nonparametric Panel Data Model. Journal of Econometrics. 188(2), 42 - 45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.03.011

Economic development

• Button, P. (2021). Can Tax Incentives Create a Local Film Industry? Evidence from Louisiana and New Mexico. Journal of Urban Affairs, 43(5):658-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2018.1530570
• Bojanic, A. N. (2019). Evolution of the Bolivian Economy Second Edition, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
• Bojanic, A. N. & Collins, L. (2019). Differential Effects of Decentralization on Income Inequality: Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries. Empirical Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-019-01813-2
• Button, P. (2019). Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 77, 315-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2019.06.002
• Lustig, N., López-Calva, L.F., & Ortiz-Juarez, E. (2013). Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: the Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. World Development. 44, 129-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.09.013
• Edwards, J. & Langpap, C. (2012). Fuel choice, indoor air pollution and children's health. Environment and Development Economics. 17(4), 379-406. Cambridge University Press https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X12000010
• Lustig, N. & López-Calva, L.F. (2010). Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?. Brookings Institution Press.
• Edwards, J. & Langpap, C. (2005). Startup Costs and the Decision to Switch from Firewood to Gas Fuel. Land Economics. 81(4), 570-86. from https://www.jstor.org/stable/4129683
• Lustig, N., Bourguignon, F., & Ferreira, F.H.G. (2004). The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America, The World Bank.

Economic history

• Pritchett, J., & Logan, T.D. (2018). On the Marital Status of US Slaves: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana. Explorations in Economic History. 69 50-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2017.11.003
• Pritchett, J., & Calomiris, C.W. (2016). Betting on Secession: Quantifying Political Events Surrounding Slavery and the Civil War. American Economic Review. 106(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20131483
• Bojanic, A. N., (2010). Evidence of Purchasing Power Parity in Silver-Backed Mexico and India. Australian Economic History Review. 50(3), pp. 306-320. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8446.2010.00307.x
• Pritchett, J., & Chamberlain, R.M. (1993). Selection in the Market for Slaves, 1830-1860. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 108(2), 461-473. https://doi.org/10.2307/2118339
• Pritchett, J. & Freudenberger, H. (1992). A Peculiar Sample: The Selection of Slaves for the New Orleans Market. Journal of Economic History. 52(1), 109-127. from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2123347
• Pritchett, J. & Freudenberger, H. (1991). The Domestic United States Slave Trade: New Evidence. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 21(3), 447-477. https://doi.org/10.2307/204955

Education and human capital

• Collins, L. A. (2020). The Do Now: A Simple, but Effective Active Learning Strategy. Applied Economics Teaching Resources. 2(2), 58-63. http://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.302623
• Cook, E., & Turner, S. (2019). Missed Exams and Lost Opportunities: Who Could Gain from Expanded College Admission Testing?. AERA Open. 5(2). https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2332858419855030
• Harris, D. & Larsen, M. (2018). The Effects of the New Orleans School Reforms on Student Achievement, High School Graduation and College Outcomes. New Orleans, LA: Tulane University, Education Research Alliance for New Orleans. https://educationresearchalliancenola.org/publications/what-effect-did-the-new-orleans-school-reforms-have-on-student-achievement-high-school-graduation-and-college-outcomes
• Harris, D., Farmer-Hinton, R., Kim, D., Diamond, J.B., Blakely Reavis, T., Rifelj, K., Lustick, H., and Carl, B.R. (2018). The Promise of Free College (and Its Potential Pitfalls). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-promise-of-free-college-and-its-potential-pitfalls/
• Testa, P. (2018). Education and propaganda: Tradeoffs to public education provision in nondemocracies. Journal of Public Economics. 160 66-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.03.001
• Cook, E., Romero, J.S., & Turner, S. (2017). Transitioning from High School to College: Differences across Virginia. Richmond Fed Economic Brief. 1-9. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/historical/frbrich/econbrief/frbrich_eb_17-12.pdf
• Harris, D. (2020). Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education. University of Chicago Press.
• Harris, D. & Sass, T. (2014). Skills, productivity and the evaluation of teacher performance. Economics of Education Review. 40, 183–204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2014.03.002
• Harris, D. & Sass, T. (2011). Teacher training, teacher quality, and student achievement. Journal of Public Economics. 95(7-8) 798-812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.11.009

Game theory

• Barbieri, S. and Marco Serena (2021), Winner’s Effort Maximization in Large Contests, accepted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Economics.
• Barbieri, S. and Iryna Topolyan (2021), Private-Information Group Contests with Complementarities, Journal of Public Economic Theory 23, 772–800.
• Barbieri, S., Konrad, K., & Malueg, D. (2020). Preemption Contests between Groups. RAND Journal of Economics. 51(3), 934–961 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12345
• Barbieri, S. & Malueg, D. (2016). Private-Information Group Contests: Best-Shot Competition. Games and Economic Behavior. 98, 219-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2016.06.015
• Barbieri, S. & Malueg, D. (2010). Threshold Uncertainty in the Private-Information Subscription Game. Journal of Public Economics. 94 848-861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.07.003
• Barbieri, S. & Malueg, D. (2008. Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good: Efficient Equilibria in the Private-Information Contribution Game. Economic Theory. 37(1), 51-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-007-0283-y

Health care

• Olson, M. K., & Yin, N. (2021). New Clinical Information and Physician Prescribing: How Do Pediatric Labeling Changes Affect Prescribing to Children?. Health Economics. 30(1), 144-164. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4182
• Ziedan, E. & Kaestner, R. (2020). Effect of Prescription Opioids and Prescription Opioid Control Policies on Infant Health. (NBER Working Paper No. 26749). from https://www.nber.org/papers/w26749
• Denteh, A., Courtemanche, C., & Tchernis, R. (2019). Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation. Southern Economic Journal. 86(1), 202-228. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12364
• Denteh, A., Millimet, D. L., & Tchernis, R. (2019). The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence. Empirical Economics. 56(6), 2185-2224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-018-1421-z
• Olson, M. K., & Yin, N. (2018). Examining Firm Responses to R&D Policy: An Analysis of Pediatric Exclusivity. American Journal of Health Economics. 4(3), 321-357. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1162/ajhe_a_00104
• Callison, K., & Nguyen, B. (2018). The Effect of Medicaid Physician Fee Increases on Beneficiaries’ Health Care Access, Utilization, and Expenditures. Health Services Research. 53(2): 690-710. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111%2F1475-6773.12698
• Collins, L. A., McLean-Meyinsse, P. E., & Taylor, S. S. (2017). A Snapshot of Undergraduate Students’ Nutritional Awareness, Levels of Food Label Use, and Perceptions of Their Health Status. Journal of Food Distribution Research. 48(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.274561
• Callison, K., & Levin, A. (2016). Donor Registries, First-Person Consent Legislation, and the Supply of Deceased Organ Donors. Journal of Health Economics. 49 70-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.06.009
• Ziedan, E., & Kaestner, R. (under review). Did the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Reduce Readmissions? An Assessment of Theory and Prior Evidence, and New Estimates

International trade and migration

• Nelson, D. & Hoekman, B. (forthcoming). Rethinking International Subsidy Rules. The World Economy. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13022
• Nelson, D., Egger, P., & von Ehrlich, M. (2020). The Trade Effects of Skilled versus Unskilled Immigration. Journal of Comparative Economics; 48(2), pp. 448-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.12.008
• Nelson, D., Egger, P. H., & von Ehrlich, M. (2012). Migration and Trade. The World Economy. 35(2), 216-241. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2011.01429.x
• Nelson, D. (1988). Endogenous Tariff Theory: A Critical Survey. American Journal of Political Science. 32(3), 796-837. https://doi.org/10.2307/2111247
• Nelson, D., Finger, J. M., & Hall, H. K., (1982). The Political Economy of Administered Protection. The American Economic Review. 72(3), 452-466. from https://www.jstor.org/stable/1831544

Labor markets

• Callison, K. & Pesko, M. F. (2020). The Effect of Paid Sick Leave Mandates on Coverage, Work Absences, and Presenteeism. Journal of Human Resources. from http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/05/04/jhr.57.4.1017-9124R2
• Isaac, E., Suqin, G., & Miller, A. (2019). Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes. (NBER Working Paper No. 25315). https://doi.org/10.3386/w25315
• Isaac, E. & Friedberg, L. (2019). Same-Sex Marriage Recognition and Taxes: New Evidence About the Impact of Household Taxation. (Working Paper). from https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Same-Sex-Marriage-Recognition-and-Taxes%3A-New-About-Friedberg-Isaac/9d90774f1cebd2ea8a27a1cdbfbb60bd78294f39
• Isaac, E. (2018). Suddenly Married: Joint Taxation and the Labor Supply of Same-Sex Married Couples After U.S. v. Windsor. (Tulane Working Paper Series). from https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:tul:wpaper:1809

Macroeconomics and growth

• Rioja, F., Gibson, J., & Chatterjee, S. (2017). Optimal Public Debt Redux. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 83, pp. 162-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2017.08.005
• Bojanic, A. N. (2012). The Impact of Financial Development and Trade on the Economic Growth of Bolivia. Journal of Applied Economics. XV(1), pp. 51-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1514-0326(12)60003-8
• Rioja, F. & Valev, N. (2007). Finance and the Sources of Growth at Various Stages of Economic Development. Economic Inquiry. 42(1), 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1093/ei/cbh049
• Rioja, F. & Valev, N. (2004). Does One Size Fit All: A Reexamination of the Finance and Growth Relationship. Journal of Development Economics. 74(2), pp. 269-513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2003.06.006
• Bergin, P. R., & Sheffrin, S. M. (2000). Interest Rates, Exchange Rates and Present Value Models of the Current Account. The Economic Journal. 110(463), 535-558. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00536
• Sheffrin, S. M. & Woo, W. T. (1990). Present Value Tests of an Intertemporal Model of the Current Account. Journal of International Economics. 29(3-4), 237-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1996(90)90032-H
• Sheffrin, S. M. (1983). Rational Expectations. Cambridge University Press, 1983, Second Edition 1996. Translations in French, Spanish, and Japanese. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139174367

Microeconomics

• Cook, E., Ciliberto, F., & Williams, J. W. (2019). Network Structure and Consolidation in the US Airline Industry, 1990–2015. Review of Industrial Organization. 54(1), 3-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-018-9635-y

Poverty and income inequality

• Neidhöfer, G., Lustig, N. & Tommasi, M. Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America. J Econ Inequal 19, 571–598 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09501-x
• Chakravarty, S.R., Chattopadhyay, N., Lustig, N. and Aranda, R. (2020), "Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais-Bibby Indices Reconsidered", Rodríguez, J.G. and Bishop, J.A. (Ed.) Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility (Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 28), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 75-96. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-258520200000028003
• Lustig, N. & Wang, Y. (2020). The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Income Inequality, Poverty, and the Urban-Rural and Regional Income Gaps in China. (Center for Global Development Working Papers). from https://www.cgdev.org/publication/impact-taxes-and-transfers-income-inequality-poverty-and-urban-rural-and-regional-income
• Lustig, N. & Pereira, C. (2016). The Impact of the Tax System and Social Spending on Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Latin America. Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics. 219(4/2016): 117-132, Instituto de Estudios Fiscales.

Public economics - theory

• Barbieri, S. (2021), Complementarity and Information in Collective Action, accepted for publication in Economic Theory.
• Barbieri, S. & Konrad, K. (2021). Overzealous Rule Makers. Journal of Law and Economics. from https://doi.org/10.1086/711354
• Isaac, E. (2020). Marriage, Divorce, and Social Safety Net Policy. Southern Economic Journal. 86(4), 1576-1612. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12431
• Edwards, J. H. Y. (2015). The structure of disaster resilience: a framework for simulations and policy recommendations. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 15(4), 827–841. from https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/15/827/2015/
• Berliant, M., & Edwards, J. H. Y. (2004). Efficient Allocations in Club Economies. Journal of Public Economic Theory. 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9779.2004.00156.x
• Edwards, J. H. Y. (1992). Indivisibility and Preference for Collective Provision. Regional Science and Urban Economics. November. https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-0462(92)90002-I

Public spending and infrastructure

• Testa, P. (2020). Resource blessing? Oil, risk, and religious communities as social insurance in the U.S. South. (CAGE working paper no. 513). from https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/wp513.2020.pdf
• Rioja, F. & Gibson, J. (2017). Public Infrastructure Maintenance and the Distribution of Wealth. Economic Inquiry. 55(1), Pages: 175–186. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12371
• Rioja, F. (2003). Filling Potholes: Macroeconomic Effects of Maintenance vs. New Investments in Public Infrastructure. Journal of Public Economics. 87(9-10), pp. 2281-2304. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00200-6

Taxation

• Sheffrin, S. & Zhao, R. (forthcoming). Public Perceptions of Tax Avoidance of Corporations and the Wealthy. Empirical Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-020-01870-y
• Alm, J. (2019). What Motivates Tax Compliance?. Journal of Economic Surveys. 33(2), 353-388. https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12272
• Alm, J. & Lequigamon, J. S. (2015). Whither the Marriage Tax?. National Tax Journal. 68(2), 251-280. from https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ntj:journl:v:68:y:2015:i:2:p:251-280
• Alm, J. & Torgler, B. (2011). Do Ethics Matter? Tax Compliance and Morality. Journal of Business Ethics. 101(4), 635-651. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-0761-9
• Sheffrin, S., O’Sullivan, A. & Sexton, T. A. (1995). Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13. Cambridge Press. Paperback reissued 2007.
• Alm, J., McClelland, G. H. & Schulze, W. D. (1992). Why Do People Pay Taxes?. Journal of Public Economics. 48(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2727(92)90040-M
• Alm, J. (1988). Uncertain Tax Policies, Individual Behavior, and Welfare. The American Economic Review. 78(1), 237-245. from https://www.jstor.org/stable/1814712