Publications:
“The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation” (with Riccardo Marchingiglio), Journal of Labor Economics, 44(3), 2026 forthcoming
[Link] [wp version] Summary: [ProMarket]
“Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to Fox News Channel” (with Elliott Ash), Economic Journal, 134(660), pp. 1331–1355, 2024
[Link] [wp version] Coverage: [New Statesman], [The Crime Report]
“Regime Stability and Persistence of Traditional Practices,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(5), pp. 1175- 1190, 2023
[Link] [wp version] Summary: [VoxDev]
“Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing?” (with Christian Dippel), Journal of Law & Economics, 66(3), pp. 511-534, 2023
[Link] [wp version] Summary: [Vox-EU] Coverage: [NPR], [Anderson Review], [Bloomberg], [Weeds by Vox], [FAZ am Sonntag]
“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:
”Economic and Political Impacts of Evangelical Christianity” (with Maxim Ananyev), book chapter, in Nirvikar Singh ed., ``Handbook of Religion, Economics, and Public Policy''
[Link] [wp version]
”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