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Working Papers:
“
Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System”
[
October 2019 Version
]
[
INET wp 91
]
Summary
: [
INET
]
Coverage:
[
Economist
]
“Prisons and
Homophobia
”
(with
Maxim Ananyev
)
[
September 2022 Version
]
Coverage:
[
Эхо Москвы
], [
Дождь
]
“
The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation
”
(with
Riccardo Marchingiglio
) revision requested at the
Journal of Labor Economics
[
February 2023 Version
] [
Stigler center wp 35
]
Summary:
[
ProMarket
]
“Slanted Media Does not Increase Police Killings”
(with
Charles Crabtree
)
[
November 2021 Version
]
“Why Aren’t People Leaving ``Janesville”?: Industry Persistence, Trade Shocks, and Mobility”
(with
Sebastian Ottinger
)
[December 2021 Version]
“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]
“
Personal Jesus: Economic Effects of Evangelical Christianity
”
(with
Maxim Ananyev
and
Alexander Yarkin
)
[Available upon request]
Publications:
“Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to Fox News Channel
”
(with
Elliott Ash
),
Economic Journal,
accepted
[Link] [
wp version
]
Coverage:
[
New Statesman
], [
The Crime Report
]
“Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing
?”
(with
Christian Dippel
),
Journal of Law & Economics,
66(3), 2023
[Link
] [
wp version
]
Summary
: [
Vox-EU
]
Coverage:
[
NPR
], [
Anderson Review
], [
Bloomberg
], [
Weeds by Vox
], [
FAZ am Sonntag
]
“Regime Stability and Persistence of Traditional Practices,”
Review of Economics and Statistics
, 105(5), 2023
[
Link
] [
wp version
]
Summary
: [
VoxDev
]
“Identity and Conflict: Evidence from Tuareg Rebellion in Mali
”
(with
Maxim Ananyev
),
World Development
, 161, 106108, 2023
[
Link
] [
wp version
]
Summary
:
[
INET
]
“Do Dictators Signal Strength with Electoral Fraud?
”
(with
Maxim Ananyev
),
European Journal of Political Economy
, 71, 102075, 2022
[
Link
] [
wp version
]
Coverage:
[
RadioFreeEurope
]
“
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
]
“
Rules Versus Norms: How Formal and Informal Institutions Shape Judicial Sentencing Cycles
”
(with
Christian Dippel
),
Journal of Comparative Economics,
49(3), pp. 645-659, 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
]
Summary:
[
Broadstreet
]
Book Chapters:
“
Covid-19 and the Media
”
(with
Maxim Ananyev
and
Yuan Tian
), book chapter, in
Klaus F. Zimmermann
ed., ``Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics,” Springer, Cham, 2022
[
Link
] [
wp version
]
“
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
]
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications:
“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
]
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Iowa Prison Industries (2013)
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