Working Papers:

“Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System”
[October 2019 Version]         [INET wp 91]                   Summary: [INET]          Coverage: [Economist]
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“The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation” (with Riccardo Marchingiglio)
[January 2021 Version]               [Stigler center wp 35]    Summary: [ProMarket]
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“Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing​?​” (with Christian Dippel)
​[June 2021 Version]                   [NBER wp 25715]            Summary: [Vox-EU]     Coverage: [NPR], [Anderson Review], [Bloomberg], [Weeds by Vox], [FAZ am Sonntag]

“Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to Fox News Channel​” (with Elliott Ash)
[August 2020 Version]               [CBS rp]                           Coverage: [New Statesman], [The Crime Report]

“State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali​” (with Maxim Ananyev)
[February 2021 Version]             [INET wp 97]                   Summary: [INET]

​“Why Aren’t People Leaving ``Janesville”?: Industry Persistence, Trade Shocks, and Mobility” (with Sebastian Ottinger)
[Available upon request]

“Exposure to Fox News Increases Police Killings​” (with Elliott Ash and Charles Crabtree)
[Available upon request]

“Effects of Student Diversity on Education and Later-Life Outcomes: Evidence from Chile” (with Juan Matamala)
[Available upon request]

“U.S. Convict Labor System and Racial Discrimination​”
[Available upon request]

Selected Work in Progress:

“Top Executives' Ancestral Characteristics and Firm Outcomes”  (with Yuqing Zhou)

“Prison Labor and Recidivism” (with Riccardo Marchingiglio)
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Publications:

“Regime Stability and Persistence of Traditional Practices​,” Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming
[Link]                  [wp version]        Summary: [VoxDev]

“Do Dictators Signal Strength with Electoral Fraud?” (with Maxim Ananyev), European Journal of Political Economy, 70, 2021
[Link]                  [wp version]         Coverage: [RadioFreeEurope]
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“The Safest Time to Fly: Pandemic Response in the Era of Fox News” (with Maxim Ananyev and Yuan Tian), Journal of Population Economics, 34(3), pp. 775-802, 2021 [Lead article]
[Link]                  [wp version]        Summary: [Vox-EU]        Coverage: [Hollywood Reporter]
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“Rules Versus Norms: How Formal and Informal Institutions Shape Judicial Sentencing Cycles” (with Christian Dippel),  Journal of Comparative Economics, 49(3), 2021
​[Link]                  [wp version]        [Online Appendix]      Summary: [Vox-EU]     Coverage: [Economist], [Anderson Review], [Facing South], [Academic Times]

“Christian Missions and Anti-Gay Attitudes in Africa​​” (with Maxim Ananyev), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 184, pp. 359-374, 2021
[Link]                  [wp version]        [Online Appendix].     Coverage: [Broadstreet]
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“Essays on the Economic Effects of Convict Labor in Modern U.S. History” (Dissertation Summary), Journal of Economic History, 80(2), pp. 564-592, 2020
[Link]                  Coverage: [EHS]

“Media in Russia: Between Modernization and Monopoly” (with Maria Lipman and Anna Kachkaeva)
book chapter, pp. 159-190, in Daniel Treisman ed., “The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia,” Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2018
[Link]               [Book order link]                          Coverage: [Choice Reviews], [Washington Post]

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