Working Papers:

“Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System”
[October 2019 Version]         [INET wp 91]                   Summary: [INET]          Coverage: [Economist], [EHS], [IPKat]
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“Regime Stability and Persistence of Traditional Practices​”   R&R Review of Economics and Statistics
[July 2020 Version]            [CCPR wp 2016-037]     Summary: [VoxDev]
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“Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing​?​” (with Christian Dippel)
​[June 2020 Version]                  [NBER wp 25715]            Summary: [Vox-EU]     Coverage: [NPR], [Anderson Review], [Bloomberg], [Weeds by Vox], [FAZ am Sonntag]

“How Common are Judicial Electoral Cycles in Criminal Sentencing?” (with Christian Dippel)
​[February 2020 Version]           [NBER wp 25716]            Summary: [Vox-EU]     Coverage: [Economist], [Anderson Review], [Facing South]

“Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to Fox News Channel​” (with Elliott Ash)
[October 2019 Version]             [CBS rp]                           Coverage: [New Statesman], [The Crime Report]

“Organized Religion and Origins of Norms: Evidence from Africa​​” (with Maxim Ananyev) R&R Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ​
[March 2020 Version]

“The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation” (with Riccardo Marchingiglio)
[July 2020 Version]             [Stigler center wp 35]    Summary: [ProMarket]

“State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali​” (with Maxim Ananyev)
[June 2020 Version]         [INET wp 97]                   Summary: [INET]

“Do Dictators Signal Strength with Electoral Fraud?” (with Maxim Ananyev)
[August 2020 Version]             [CBS rp]

“The Safest Time to Fly: Pandemic Response in the Era of Fox News” (with Maxim Ananyev and Yuan Tian)
[August 2020 Version]

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

“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 
[Jstor Link]   [Book order link]                          Coverage: [Choice Reviews], [Washington Post]

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

License plate Shop, at Anamosa, Iowa. Image source: Iowa Prison Industries (2013)