Department of Economics

Publications

Forthcoming

  • Liu, G., Long, W., Zhang, X. and Li,Q., Detecting Financial Data Dependence Structure by Averaging Mixture Copulas. Forthcoming in Econometric Theory
  • Button, Patrick, Can Tax Incentives Create a Local Film Industry? Evidence from Louisiana and New Mexico. Forthcoming in Journal of Urban Affairs.
  • Button, Patrick, Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Forthcoming in Czaja, Sara J., Joseph Sharit, Jacquelyn James, and Jim Grosch (eds.). Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work. Springer: New York.
  • Barbieri, S. and Malueg, D., On the Voluntary Provision of “Weakest-Link” Public Goods: the case of private information, accepted at the Journal of Public Economic Theory.
  • Lustig, Nora, Nizar Jouini and Ahmed Moummi, and Abebe Shimeles. Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Tunisia. Review of Income and Wealth, accepted March 2018.
  • Kurochkin, Dmitry (co-editor) and Shittu, Ekundayo, Renewable Energy: International Perspectives on Sustainability. Palgrave MacMillan.

  • Neumark, David, Ian Burn, Patrick Button, and Nanneh Chehras. “Do State Laws Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Reduce Age Discrimination in Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment.” Forthcoming in the Journal of Law & Economics.

2020

  • Lustig, Nora, Measuring the Distributional Impact of Taxation and Public Spending: The Practice of Fiscal Incidence Analysis. Oxford Research Encyclopidia of Economics and Finance.
  • Isaac, Elliott, Marriage, Divorce, and Social Safety Net Policy. Southern Economic Journal 86 (4): 1576-1612.

2019

  • Neumark, David, Ian Burn, and Patrick Button, 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
  • Johnson, Lindsay, Michael Spanbauer, and Patrick Button, How Valuable are National Parks? Evidence from a Proposed National Park Expansion in Alaska. Journal of Parks and Recreation Administration, 37(2): 1-25
  • Button, Patrick, Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 77: 315-339.

2018

  • Lustig, Nora (editor), Commitment to Equity Handbook. Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty. CEQ Institute, Tulane University and Brookings Institution Press, 2018
  • Jourini, N., Lustig, N., Moummi, A., and Shimeles, A., Fiscal Incidence and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Tunisia. Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 64, pp S225-S248, Oct. 2018
  • Shabliy, Elena V., Kurochkin, Dmitry (co-editor) and O'Donnell, Karen, Women's Emancipation Writing at the Fin de Siecle, Routledge, Nov. 2018
  • Olson, Mary K., and Nina Yin, Examining Firm Responses to R&D Policy: An Analysis of Pediatric Exclusivity. American Journal of Health Economics, 2018
  • Logan, Trevon and Pritchett, Jonathan On the Marital Status of U. S. Slaves: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, Explorations in Economic History, 69, Pages 50-63, 2018
  • Button, Patrick, Expanding Employment Discrimination Protections for Individuals with Disabilities: Evidence from California. Forthcoming in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018
  • Button, Patrick, A Replication of ‘Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? Evidence from the U.S. House’ (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004).” Public Finance Review, 46(5): 886-93, 2018
  • Armour, Philip, Patrick Button, and Simon Hollands,  Disability Saliency and Discrimination in Hiring. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 108:262-66, 2018
  • Long, Wei, Does longer incarceration deter or incapacitate crime? Evidence from Truth-in-Sentencing reform. Applied Economics, 2018
  • Herty, Michael, Kurganov, Alexander, and Kurochkin, Dmitry.On Convergence of Numerical Methods for Optimization Problems Goberned by Scalar Hyperbolic Conversion Laws. In Klinenberg, Christian and Westdickenberg, Michael (eds.), Theory, Numerics and Applications of Hyperbolic Problems I, Springer, 2018

2017

  • Neumark, David, Ian Burn, and Patrick Button, Age Discrimination and Hiring of Older Workers. Federal Reserve Board of San Francisco Economic Letter # 2017-06
  • Button, Patrick, Seniors for Hire? Age Discrimination, ‘Sex-Plus-Age’ Discrimination, and the Effectiveness of Age Discrimination Laws. Prepared as written testimony for EEOC public meeting on June 14, 2017 entitled The ADEA @ 50 - More Relevant than Ever
  • Sperisen, Benjamin, Bad Reputation Under Bounded and Fading Memory. Forthcoming in Economic Inquiry.
  • Li, Q. and Long, W., Do parole abolition and Truth-in-Sentencing deter violent crimes in Virginia? Empirical Economics, 2017
  • Lustig, Nora, editor, Commitment to Equity Handbook. A Guide to Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty, Brookings Institution and CEQ Institute, 2017.
  • Lustig,Nora, Fiscal Redistribution and Ethno-racial Inequality in Bolivia, Brazil and Guatemala. Latin American Research Review. Special Issue: Enduring and/or New Forms of Inequality in a Globalizing World, Philip Oxhorn and José R. Jouve-Martin, eds., forthcoming 2017.
  • Lustig,Nora, El impacto del sistema tributario y el gasto social en la distribución del ingreso y la pobreza en América Latina: Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Perú y Uruguay. El Trimestre Economico. Number 335, July-September 2017.
  • Arunatilake, Nisha, Gabriela Inchauste and Nora Lustig, The Incidence of Taxes and Spending in Sri Lanka. In Inchauste, G., Lustig, N. (eds.), The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy: Experience from Developing Countries. World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2017.
  • Hill, Ruth, Gabriela Inchauste, Nora Lustig, Eyasu Tsehaye and Tassew Woldehanna, A Fiscal Incidence Analysis for Ethiopia. In Inchauste, G., Lustig, N. (eds.), The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy: Experience from Developing Countries. World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2017.
  • Inchauste, Gabriela, Nora Lustig, Mashekwa Maboshe, Catriona Purfield and Ingrid Wollard, The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy in South Africa. In Inchauste, G., Lustig, N. (eds.), The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy: Experience from Developing Countries. World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2017.
  • López-Calva, Luis F., Nora Lustig, Mikhail Matytsin, and Daria Popova, Who Benefits from Fiscal Redistribution in Russia? In Inchauste, G., Lustig, N. (eds.), The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy: Experience from Developing Countries. World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2017.
  • Balthrop, Andrew, Power Laws in Oil and Natural Gas Production. Forthcoming in Empirical Economics, 1-19.
  • Balthrop, Andrew, & Schnier, K. E., A Regression Discontinuity Approach to Measuring the Effectiveness of Oil and Natural Gas Regulation to Address the Common-pool Externality. Forthcoming in Resource and Energy Economics, 44, 118-138.
  • Nicole Florack and Steven M. Sheffrin, Psychological Non-equivalence of Tax Bases: An Empirical Investigation. Proceedings of the 106th Meeting of the National Tax Association
  • Rebbecca Reed-Arthurs and Steven M. Sheffrin, Public Attitudes Towards Redistribution Through Taxation. Forthcoming in ed. J.L.M. Gribnau and H. Peeters, Taxation and Trust: Legitimizing Redistributive Tax Policies, Intersentia Cambridge, 2016.
  • David Neumark, Joanne Song, and Patrick Button, Does Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Make it Harder to Get Hired? Evidence from Disability Discrimination Laws. Forthcoming in Research on Aging, 2016.
  • James Alm and Steven M. Sheffrin, The Elements, Origins, and Insights of Behavioral Public Economics. Public Finance Review, 2016.
  • Grant Driessen and Steven M. Sheffrin, The Past and Future of the Urban Property Tax. 2016 in Land and the City, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy.
  • Dronyk-Trosper, Trey, Searching for Goldilocks: The Distance-Based Capitalization Effects of Local Public Services. Real Estate Economics.
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  • Barbieri, Stefano and Edwards, John H. Y., Middle-Class Flight from Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Theoretical Analysis of Inequality and Schooling. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 64, 12-29, 2017
  • Barbieri, Stefano, Voluntary Provision of Public Goods with Private Information Using Order Statistics. Economics Letters 150, 63-66, 2017
  • Barbieri, S. and David Malueg, Private Information in the BBV Model of Public Goods. Journal of Public Economic Theory, DOI: 10.1111/jpet.12178
  • McCarthy, Ian and Darden, Michael, Supply-side Responses to Public Quality Ratings: Evidence from Medicare Advantage. American Journal of Health Economics.
  • Darden, Michael, Smoking, Expectations, and Health: A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Lifetime Smoking Behavior. Journal of Political Economy.
  • Dronyk-Trosper, T., Lock-in and Team Effects: Recruiting and Success in College Football Athletics, with Brandli Stitzel.  Journal of Sports Economics.  Volume 18 (4), 376-387, 2017.
  • Dronyk-Trosper, T., Getting What We Vote For: A Regression Discontinuity Test of Ballot Initiative Outcomes.  Regional Science and Urban Economics.  Volume 64, 46-56, 2017.
  • Dronyk-Trosper, T., Alm, J. and Sheffrin, S., What Drives State Tax Reforms? Public Finance Review.  Volume 34 (4) 443-457 (2017).

2016

  • Alan Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone, & Joseph S. Shapiro, Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century. Journal of Political Economy (February 2016) 124(1): 105-159.
  • Campos, Raymundo, Luis F. López-Calva, and Nora Lustig, Declining Wages for College-Educated Workers in Mexico: Are Younger or Older Cohorts Hurt the Most? World Economic Journal, No. 43, 2016
  • Charles Stoecker, Nicholas Sanders, & Alan Barreca, Success is Something to Sneeze At: Influenza Mortality in Cities that Participate in the Super Bowl. American Journal of Health Economics, (February 2016) 2(1): 125–143
  • Barbieri, S. and David Malueg, Private-Information Group Contests: Best-Shot Competition. Games and Economic Behavior 98, 219--234.
  • Nora Lustig. Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Middle Income Countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa, Journal of Globalization and Development, DOI: 10.1515/jgd-2016-0015.
  • Alan Barreca, Jason Lindo, & Glen Waddell, Heaping-Induced Bias in Regression Discontinuity Design. Economic Inquiry, (January 2016) 54(1): 268–29.
  • Patrick Button. Model Averaging and Model Uncertainty in Regression Discontinuity Designs. Journal of Econometric Methods, 5(1): 103-16.
  • Arthur O’Sullivan, Steven M. Sheffrin, and Stephen Perez, Economics: Principles, Tools and Applications, 9th Edition, Pearson, 2016.
  • Nora Lustig and Jacques Silber. Global Poverty Lines, Special Issue, Journal of Economic Inequality, Volume 14, Issue 2, June 2016.
  • Arthur O’Sullivan, Steven M. Sheffrin, and Stephen Perez, Survey of Economics, 7th Edition, Pearson, 2016.
  • David Neumark, Ian Burn, and Patrick Button, Experimental Age Discrimination Evidence and the Heckman Critique. American Economic Review, 106(5): 303-08.
  • Grant Driessen and Steven M. Sheffrin, Agglomeration, Tax Differentials, and the Mobility of Professional Athletes. Public Finance Review, 2016.
  • Michael Darden and Donna Gilleskie, The Effects of Parental Health Shocks on Adult Offspring Smoking Behavior: Evidence from a Long Panel. Health Economics, (August, 2016) 25(8): 939--954.
  • Nora Lustig and Claudiney Pereira, Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview. In Falleti, Tulia, Emilio A. Parrado and Roger Smith (eds.), Post-Neoliberal Latin America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
  • Thomas Carton, Michael Darden, John Levendis, Sang Lee, and Iben Ricket, Comprehensive Indoor Smoking Bans and Smoking Prevalence: Evidence at the State Level. American Journal of Health Economics (Fall, 2016) 2(4).
  • Jonathan B. Pritchett and Jessica Hayes, The Occupations of Slaves Sold in New Orleans: Missing Values, Cheap Talk, or Informative Advertising? Cliometrica, 10(2) (May 2016), pp. 181-195.
  • Nora Lustig, Luis F. López-Calva, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America. Basu, Kaushik and Joseph Stiglitz. Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy: Volume II: Regions and Regularities. Chapter 7, 2016.
  • Jonathan Pritchett and Herman Freudenberger, A Peculiar Sample: a Reply to Steckel and Ziebarth. Journal of Economic History, 76(1) (March 2016), pp. 139-162.
  • Charles Calomiris and Jonathan Pritchett, Betting on Secession: Quantifying Political Events Surrounding Slavery and the Civil War. American Economic Review, 106(1) (January 2016), pp. 1–23. Also NBER working paper 19625.
  • Sean Higgins and Nora Lustig, Can a poverty-reducing and progressive tax and transfer system hurt the poor? Journal of Development Economics 122, 63-75, 2016.

2015

  • Alan Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone, & Joseph S. Shapiro, Convergence in Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from High Temperatures and Mortality, 1900-2004. American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, (May 2015) 105(5): 247-51.
  • Nora Lustig, The Redistributive Impact of Government Spending on Education and Health: Evidence from 13 Developing Countries in the Commitment to Equity Project. Chapter 16 in Gupta, Sanjeev, Michael Keen, Benedict Clements, and Ruud de Mooij, eds., Inequality and Fiscal Policy, Washington: International Monetary Fund, 2015.
  • Maynor Cabrera, Nora Lustig, and Hilcias Moran, 2015. Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala. World Development.
  • Nora Lustig and Jaime Ros, Crisis, Exchange Rate Management and Inequality: Lessons from Latin America. Chapter 8 in Managing the Middle-Income Transition. Challenges Facing the People’s Republic of China, Juzhong Zhuang, Paul Vandenberg and Yiping Huang, eds., Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • Jonathan B. Pritchett and Jessica Hayes, The Occupations of Slaves Sold in New Orleans: Missing values, cheap talk, or informative advertising? Cliometrica.
  • Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Nora Lustig, Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases. Special Issue, Journal of Economic Inequality, volume 13, number 4, December 2015.
  • Carl Green, Wei Long and Cheng Hsiao, Testing error serial correlation in fixed effects nonparametric panel data models. Journal of Econometrics.
  • Nora Lustig, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction In Latin America: The Role Of Social Spending And Taxation In Achieving Development Goals. Development Journal - Society For International Development, Volume 57 Issue 3-4 (Double Issue), September 2015.
  • López-Calva, Luis F., Nora Lustig, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Inequality and Human Development in Latin America: A Long-Run Perspective. Special Issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, September 2015.
  • Michael Darden and Ian McCarthy, The Star Treatment: Estimating the Impact of Star Ratings on Medicare Advantage Enrollments. Journal of Human Resources.
  • Thomas Lyon and Jay Shimshack, Environmental Disclosure: Evidence from Newsweek's Green Companies Rankings. Business and Society.
  • Bartalotti, Otavio, Nora Lustig, and Yang Wang, Decomposing Changes in Male Wage Distribution in Brazil. In Lorenzo Cappellari, Solomon W. Polachek, and Konstantinos Tatsiramos (eds.), Inequality: Causes and Consequences. Research in Labor Economics, Volume 44, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  • Doug Harris and Matthew Larsen, Experiments and Quasi-Experiments. In Brewer, D.J. and L.O. Picus, editors. Encyclopedia of Education. Economics. and Finance.
  • John H. Y. Edwards. The Structure of Disaster Resilience: a Framework for Simulations and Policy Recommendations. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 15(4): 827-841.
  • Joao Pedro Azevedo, Luis F. López-Calva, Nora Lustig, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Inequality, Mobility and Middle Classes in Latin America. In Dayton-Johnson, J., Latin America’s Emerging Middle Class. Palgrave McMillan, 2015.
  • Alan Barreca and Marianne Page, A Pint for a Pound? Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Birth Outcomes. Health Economics. 24(4): 400-418.

2014

  • David Neumark and Patrick Button. Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 33: 566-601.
  • Sean Higgins and Claudiney Pereira. The Effects of Brazil's Taxation and Social Spending on the Distribution of Household Income. Public Finance Review. 42(3): 346-367.
  • Nora Lustig. Scholars Who Became Practitioners: the Influence of Research on the Design, Evaluation and Political Survival of Mexico's Antipoverty Program. In Abraham F. Lowenthal and Mariano E. Bertucci, editors. Scholars, Policymakers, & International Affairs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Robert Kaestner, Michael Darden, and Darius Lakdawalla. Are Investments in Disease Prevention Complements? The Case of Statins and Health Behaviors. Journal of Health Economics. 36: 151-63.
  • Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig, and Christian Meyer. The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America? World Development, August 2014, Volume 60, pp132-146.
  • Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Group Efforts when Performance Is Determined by the Best Shot. Economic Theory. 56(2): 333-73.
  • Douglas Harris and Tim Sass. Skills, Productivity, and the Evaluation of Teacher Performance. Economics of Education Review. 40: 183-204.
  • Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Increasing Fundraising Success by Decreasing Donor Choice. Journal of Public Economic Theory. 16(3): 372-400.
  • Roberta Calvet Christian and James Alm. Empathy, Sympathy, and Tax Compliance. Journal of Economic Psychology. 40: 6282.
  • James Alm and Yongzheng Liu. China's Tax-for-Fee Reform and Village Inequality. Oxford Development Studies. 42(1): 38-64.
  • Nora Lustig, Carola Pessino and John Scott. The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: Introduction to the Special Issue. Public Finance Review. 42(3): 287-303.
  • Nora Lustig and Carola Pessino. Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina during the 2000s: The Increasing Role of Noncontributory Pensions. Public Finance Review. 42(3): 304-25.
  • Marisa Bucheli, Nora Lustig, Maximo Rossi, and Florencia Amabile. Social Spending, Taxes, and Income Redistribution in Uruguay. Public Finance Review. 42(3): 413-33.
  • James Alm, J. Sebastian Leguizamon, and Susane Leguizamon. Revisiting the Income Tax Effects of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriages. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management . 33(2): 263-89.
  • Timothy Beatty and Jay Shimshack. Air Pollution and Children's Health: A Cohort Analysis. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 67(1): 3957.
  • Tim R. Sass, Anastasia Semykina, and Douglas N. Harris. Value-Added Models and the Measurement of Teacher Productivity. Economics of Education Review 38: 9-23.
  • Nora Lustig and Sean Higgins. Commitment to Equity: A Diagnostic Framework to Assess Governments' Fiscal Policy. In Changyong Rhee, Juzhong Zhuang, and Ravi Kanbur, editors. Inequality in Asia and the Pacific. Routledge.
  • Raymundo Campos, Gerardo Esquivel, and Nora Lustig. The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 19892010. In Giovanni Andrea Cornia, editor. Falling Inequality in Latin America: Policy Changes and Lessons. Oxford University Press.

2013

  • Jonathan Pritchett and Mallorie Smith. Sequential Sales as a Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Slaves. Journal of Economic History 73(2): 477-97.
  • Spiros Bougheas and Doug Nelson. On the Political Economy of High Skilled Migration and International Trade. European Economic Review 63: 206-24.
  • Scott Cunningham and Keith Finlay. Parental Substance Use and Foster Care: Evidence from Two Methamphetamine Supply Shocks. Economic Inquiry 51(1): 764-82.
  • Mary K. Olson. Eliminating the U.S. Drug Lag: Implications for Drug Safety. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 47(1): 1-30.
  • David Christafore, J. Sebastian Leguizamon, Susane Leguizamon. Are Black Neighborhoods Less Welcoming to Homosexuals Than White Neighborhoods? Regional Science and Urban Economics 43(4): 579-89.
  • Nora Lustig, Luis F. López-Calva, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez. Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. World Development 44: 129-41.
  • Steven Sheffrin. Tax Fairness and Folk Justice. Cambridge University Press.
  • James Alm and Yongzheng Liu. Did China's Tax-for-Fee Reform Improve Farmers' Welfare in Rural Areas? Journal of Development Studies 49(4): 516-32.
  • Ira Gang, Francisco Rivera-Batiz, and Myeong-Su Yun. Economic Strain, Education and Attitudes towards Foreigners in the European Union. Review of International Economics 21(2): 177-90.
  • James Alm and Asmaa El-Ganainy. Value-Added Taxation and Consumption. International Tax and Public Finance 20(1): 105-28.
  • James Alm and Aloys Prinz. Introduction to the Special Issue. Public Finance Review 41(5): 507-09.
  • James Alm and Abel Embaye. Using Dynamic Panel Methods to Estimate Shadow Economies Around the World, 1984-2006. Public Finance Review 41(5): 510-43.
  • Marco Castaneda and James Marton. Employer-Provided Health Insurance and the Adverse Selection Problem. Public Finance Review (41)1: 3-36.
  • Mark Skidmore, Chad Cotti, and James Alm. The Political Economy of State Government Subsidy Adoption: The Case of Ethanol. Economics and Politics 25(2): 162-80.
  • James Alm and Keith Finlay. Who Benefits from Tax Evasion? Economic Analysis and Policy 43(2): 139-54.
  • James Alm and Asmaa El-Ganainy. Value-Added Taxation and Consumption. International Tax and Public Finance 20(1): 105-28.
  • Claudiney Pereira and Luiz F. Maia-Filho. Brazilian Retail Banking and the 2008 Financial Crisis: Were the Government-Controlled Banks That Important? Journal of Banking and Finance 37(7): 2210-15.
  • Noel Gaston and Douglas Nelson. Bridging Trade Theory and Labour Econometrics: The Effects of International Migration. Journal of Economic Surveys 27(1): 98-139.
  • Michal Kurlaender and Matthew Larsen. K-12 and Postsecondary Alignment: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Freshmen Course-taking and Performance at California's Community Colleges. Education Policy Analysis Archives 21(16): 1-29.
  • Nora Lustig. “Latin America’s Inequality Success Story: The Case of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico,” Current History, Vol. 112, Issue 751, 64, February 2013. (By invitation)
  • Nora Lustig. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. Feminist Economics 19(1): 137-41.
  • Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig, and Darryl McLeod. Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics. Peter Kingstone and Deborah Yashar, editors. Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Routledge

2012

  • Markus Kitzmueller and Jay Shimshack. Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility. Journal of Economic Literature 50(1): 51-84.
  • David Christafore and Susane Leguizamon. The Influence of Gay and Lesbian Coupled Households on House Prices in Conservative and Liberal Neighborhoods. Journal of Urban Economics 71(2): 258-67.
  • Alan Barreca. Climate Change, Humidity, and Mortality in the United States. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 63(1): 19-34.
  • Alan Barreca, Price Fishback, and Shawn Kantor. Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States. Explorations in Economic History 49(4): 381-98.
  • Stefano Barbieri. Communication and Early Contributions. Journal of Public Economic Theory 14(3): 391-421.
  • James Alm, William H. Kaempfer, and Edward Batte Sennoga. Baseball Salaries and Income Taxes. Journal of Sports Economics 13(6): 619-34.
  • James Alm, Todd L. Cherry, Michael Jones, and Michael McKee. Social Programs as Positive Inducements for Tax Participation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 84(1): 85-96.
  • J. Sebastian Leguizamon. Estimating Implicit Marginal Tax Rates of Welfare Recipients across the U.S. States. Public Finance Review 40(3): 401-30.
  • Alan Barreca and Jay Shimshack. Absolute Humidity, Temperature, and Influenza Mortality: 30 Years of County-Level Evidence from the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology 176(S7): S114-S122.
  • Qiyan Ong, Yohanes Riyanto, and Steven Sheffrin. How Does Voice Matter? Evidence From the Ultimatum Game. Experimental Economics 15(4): 604-21.
  • Susane Leguizamon and Justin M. Ross. Revealed Preference for Relative Status: Evidence from the Housing Market. Journal of Housing Economics 21(1): 55-65.
  • Lopamudra Chakraborti and Kenneth E. McConnell. Does Ambient Water Quality Affect the Stringency of Regulations? Plant-Level Evidence of the Clean Water Act. Land Economics 88(3): 518-35.
  • Simone Juhasz Silva and Douglas Nelson. Does Aid Cause Trade?: Evidence from an Asymmetric Gravity Model. World Economy 35(5): 545-77.
  • Peter Egger and Douglas Nelson. Introduction to Immigration Special Issue of The World Economy. World Economy 35(2): 107-110.
  • Spiros Bougheas and Douglas Nelson. Skilled Worker Migration and Trade: Inequality and Welfare. World Economy 35(2): 197-215.
  • Peter Egger, Maximilian von Ehrlich, and Douglas Nelson. Migration and Trade. World Economy 35(2): 216-241.
  • John Edwards and Christian Langpap. Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Pollution, and Children's Health. Environment and Development Economics 17(4): 379-406.
  • James Alm. Measuring, Explaining, and Controlling Tax Evasion: Lessons from Theory, Field Studies, and Experiments. International Tax and Public Finance 19(1): 54-77.
  • James Alm and H. Spencer Banzhaf. Designing Economic Instruments for the Environment in a Decentralized Fiscal System. Journal of Economic Surveys 26(2): 177-202.
  • Carl Davidson, Steve Matusz, and Douglas Nelson. A Behavioral Model of Unemployment, Sociotropic Concerns, and the Political Economy of Trade Policy. Economics and Politics 24(1): 72-94.
  • Sean Higgins. The Impact of Bolsa Familia on Poverty: Does Brazil's Conditional Cash Transfer Program Have a Rural Bias? Journal of Politics and Society 23(1): 88-125.

2011

  • Alan Barreca, Melanie Guldi, Jason Lindo, and Glen R. Waddell. Saving Babies? Revisiting the Effect of Very Low Birth Weight Classification. Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(4): 2117-23.
  • Peter Egger and Douglas Nelson. How Bad is Antidumping: Evidence from Panel Data. Review of Economics and Statistics 93(4): 1374-90.
  • Timothy Beatty and Jay Shimshack. School Buses, Diesel Emissions, and Children's Health. Journal of Health Economics 30(5): 987-99.
  • Leandro M. Magnusson. Inference in Limited Dependent Variable Models Robust to Weak Identification. Econometrics Journal 13(3): S56-S79.
  • Yothin Jinjarak and Steven M. Sheffrin. Causality, Real Estate Prices, and the Current Account. Journal of Macroeconomics 33(2): 233-46.
  • James Alm, Robert D. Buschman, and David L. Sjoquist. Rethinking Local Government Reliance on the Property Tax. Regional Science and Urban Economics 41(4): 320-31.
  • Nora Lustig. Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What Do We Lose? An Introduction to JOEI Forum on Multidimensional Poverty. Journal of Economic Inequality 9(2): 227-234.
  • James Alm. Testing Behavioral Public Economics Theories in the Laboratory. National Tax Journal 63(4, Part 1): 635-58.
  • Nora Lustig, Editor. Multi-dimensional Indices of Achievement and Poverty, Forum, Journal of Economic Inequality 9(3): 469-469.
  • James Alm and Edward Sennoga. Mobility, Competition, and the Distributional Effects of Tax Evasion. National Tax Journal 63(4, Part 2): 1055-84.
  • James Alm and Janet Rogers. Do State Fiscal Policies Affect Economic Growth? Public Finance Review 39(4): 483-526.
  • James Alm, editor. The Economics of Taxation, Volumes I and II. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Wayne Gray and Jay Shimshack. The Effectiveness of Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement: A Review of the Empirical Evidence. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 5(1): 3-24.
  • James Alm, Robert D. Buschman, and David L. Sjoquist. Citizen "Trust" as an Explanation of State Education Funding to Local School Districts. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 41(4): 636-61.
  • Peter Egger and Douglas Nelson. Foreign Partners and Finance Constraints: The Case of Chinese Firms. World Economy 34(5): 687-706.
  • Leonardo Gasparini and Nora Lustig. The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Latin America. In Jose Antonio Ocampo and Jaime Ros, editors. Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics. Oxford University Press.
  • Noel Gaston and Douglas Nelson. International Migration. In Daniel Bernhofen, Rod Falvey, David Greenaway, and Udo Kreickemeier, editors. Palgrave Handbook of International Trade. London: Palgrave.
  • Chris Jones, Oliver Morrisey, and Douglas Nelson. Did the World Bank Drive Tariff Reforms in Eastern Africa? World Development 39(3): 324-35.
  • Arthur O'Sullivan, Stephen J. Perez, and Steven M. Sheffrin. Economics: Principles, Applications, and Tools, Seventh Edition. Pearson Publishers.
  • Daniel A. Powers, Hirotoshi Yoshioka, and Myeong-Su Yun. mvdcmp: Multivariate Decomposition for Nonlinear Response Models. Stata Journal 11(4): 556-576.
  • Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun. Gender and Ethnicity in Post-Conflict Kosovo. In Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, and Mark McGillivray, editors. Fragile States: Causes, Costs, and Responses. Oxford University Press.
  • Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, and Myeong-Su Yun. Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between OBCs and Other Social Groups in India. Economic and Political Weekly 46(39): 43-51.

2010

  • James Alm and Sally Wallace. Taxpayer Reporting Responses and the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Public Budgeting and Finance 30(3): 1-26.
  • Timothy Beatty and Jay Shimshack. The Impact of Climate Change Information: New Evidence from the Stock Market. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 10(1, Contributions): Article 105.
  • Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Threshold Uncertainty in the Private-Information Subscription Game. Journal of Public Economics 94(11-12): 848-61.
  • Gerardo Esquivel, Nora Lustig, and John Scott. Mexico: A Decade of Falling Inequality: Market Forces or State Action? Chapter 6 in Luis Felipe López-Calva and Nora Lustig, eds., Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2010.
  • Jay Shimshack and Michael B. Ward. Mercury Advisories and Household Health Trade-offs? Journal of Health Economics 29(5): 674-85.
  • Alan Barreca. The Long-Term Economic Impact of In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to Malaria. Journal of Human Resources 45(4): 865-92.
  • Keith Finlay and David Neumark. Is Marriage Always Better for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration. Journal of Human Resources 45(4): 1046-88.
  • Christian Langpap and Jay Shimshack. Private Citizen Suits and Public Enforcement: Substitutes or Complements? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 59(3): 235-49.
  • Nora Lustig, Editor. Crecimiento económico y equidad, El Colegio de México, 2010 (Los grandes problemas de México, Volumen IX)
  • Leandro M. Magnusson and Sophocles Mavroeidis. Identification-Robust Minimum Distance Estimation of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 42(2): 465-81.
  • John R. Bowblis and Myeong-Su Yun. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Drug Therapy. Social Science Research 39(4): 674-84.
  • Luis Felipe López-Calva and Nora Lustig, editors. Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress? Washington: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Magali Delmas, Maria Montes-Sancho, and Jay Shimshack. Information Disclosure Policies: Evidence from the Electricity Industry. Economic Inquiry 48(2): 483-98.
  • Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Profit-Maximizing Sale of a Discrete Public Good via the Subscription Game in Private-Information Environments. B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 10(1, Contributions): Article 5.
  • Ira N. Gang, Francisco Rivera-Batiz, and Myeong-Su Yun. Changes in Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe: Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall. In Gil Epstein and Ira N. Gang, editors. Migration and Culture: Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, volume 8. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
  • Noel Gaston and Douglas Nelson. The Politics of (Anti-)Globalization: What Do We Learn from Simple Models? In Noel Gaston and Ahmed Khalid, editors. Globalization and Economic Integration: Winners and Losers in the Asia-Pacific. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

2009

  • Charles Calomiris and Jonathan Pritchett. Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market. Journal of Economic History 69(4): 986-1011.
  • Nora Lustig and Jacques Silber. Poverty and Inequality in Mexico and Selected Latin American and Caribbean Countries. Special Issue of Estudios Económicos, El Colegio de México, February 2009.
  • Keith Finlay and Leandro M. Magnusson. Implementing Weak Instrument Robust Tests for a General Class of Instrumental Variables Models. Stata Journal 9(3): 398-421.
  • Keith Finlay. Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders. In David H. Autor, editor, Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, pp. 89-125. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and NBER.
  • Stefano Barbieri and Andrea Mattozzi. Membership in Citizen Groups. Games and Economic Behavior 67(1): 217-32.
  • Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun. Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo. Comparative Economic Studies 51(2): 242-64.
  • Daniel A. Powers and Myeong-Su Yun. Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models. Sociological Methodology 39(1): 233-63.
  • Mary K. Olson. PDUFA and Initial U.S. Drug Launches. Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 15(2): 393-416.
  • Kevin Lander and Jonathan Pritchett. When to Care: The Economic Rationale of Slavery Health Care Provision. Social Science History 33(2): 155-82.
  • Jonathan B. Pritchett and Myeong-Su Yun. The In-hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855-1860. Explorations in Economic History 46(2): 241-52.
  • John Landon-Lane, Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun. Measuring Income Assimilation of Migrants to Germany. Schmollers Jahrbuch (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies).
  • Myeong-Su Yun. Wage Differentials, Discrimination and Inequality: A Cautionary Note on the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce Decomposition Method. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 56(1): 114-22.

2008

  • Luciana C. Fiorini. Overlapping Generations and Idiosyncratic Risk: Can Prices Reveal the Best Policy? Journal of Mathematical Economics 44(12): 1312-20.
  • Marco Castaneda and Dino Falaschetti. Does a Hospital's Profit Status Affect its Operational Scope? Review of Industrial Organization 33(2): 129-59.
  • Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good: Efficient Equilibria in the Private-Information Contribution Game. Economic Theory37(1): 51-80.
  • Marco Castaneda, John Garen, and Jeremy Thornton. Competition, Contractibility, and the Market for Donors to Non-Profits. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization24(1): 215-46.
  • Stefano Barbieri and David Malueg. Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good: Continuous-Strategy Equilibria in the Private-Information Subscription Game. Journal of Public Economic Theory 10(4): 529-45.
  • Marco Castaneda and James Marton. A Model of Commodity Differentiation with Indivisibilities and Production. Economic Theory 34(1): 85-106.
  • Mary K. Olson. The Risk We Bear: The Effects of Review Speed and Industry User Fees on New Drug Safety. Journal of Health Economics 27(2): 175-200.
  • Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, and Myeong-Su Yun. Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe. Review of Income and Wealth 54(1): 50-70.
  • Myeong-Su Yun. Identification Problem and Detailed Oaxaca Decomposition: A General Solution and Inference. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 33(1): 27-38.
  • Myeong-Su Yun. Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique. In William A. Darity, Jr., editor, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 332-34.
  • Ira N. Gang and Myeong-Su Yun. Immigration Amnesty and Immigrant's Earnings. Research in Labor Economics 27: 273-309.