Below is a list of my academic journal publications. For a list of other peer reviewed publications (e.g., policy briefs), click here for the most up-to-date version of my CV. For updated citation statistics, see my Google Scholar profile.
Regressive Effects of Regulation
The following papers investigate the regressive effects of regulations:
- “How Do Federal Regulations Affect Consumer Prices? An Analysis of the Regressive Effects of Regulation,” (with Courtney Collins and Alan Krause), Public Choice, Vol. 180, No. 1-2, 2019, pg. 57-90.
- “Regulation and Poverty: An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between the Incidence of Federal Regulation and the Occurrence of Poverty across the US States,” (with Patrick McLaughlin and Laura Stanley), Public Choice, Vol. 180, No. 1-2, 2019, pg. 131-144.
- “Barriers to Prosperity: The Harmful Impact of Entry Regulations on Income Inequality,” (with Patrick McLaughlin and Laura Stanley), Public Choice, Vol. 180, No. 1-2, 2019, pg. 165-190.
- “Entry Regulations and Income Inequality at the Regional Level,” (with Colin O’Reilly), Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2019, pg. 31-39.
- “The Economic Theory of Regulation and Inequality,” (with Colin O’Reilly), Public Choice, 2021.
- “Federal Regulation and Mortality in the 50 States,” (with James Broughel), Risk Analysis, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2022, pg. 592-613.
- “Regulation and Income Inequality in the United States,” (with Colin O’Reilly), European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 72, 2022.
International Economic Growth & Development Studies
The following papers investigate the relationship between economic growth and a host of variables including income inequality, poverty, culture, etc. outside the US or within a panel of countries.
- “Inequality and Growth: A Semiparametric Investigation,” Journal of Quantitative Economics, Vol. 4, No. 2, July 2006, pg. 25-44.
- “Trading Places: Does Past Growth Impact Inequality?” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 82, No. 1, January 2007, pg. 257-266.
- “A Tale of Two Provinces: How Growth Can Help or Hinder Equality in China,” (with Ying Wu and Hong Yao), International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, No. 12, November 2007, pg. 214-219.
- “The Impact of Past Growth on Poverty in Chinese Provinces,” (with Ying Wu and Hong Yao), Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 19, No. 4, August 2008, pg. 348-357.
- “Taking the ‘U’ out of Kuznets: A Comprehensive Analysis of the EKC and Environmental Degradation,” (with Jill L. Caviglia-Harris and James R. Kahn), Ecological Economics, Vol. 68, No. 4, 2009, pg. 1149-1159.
- “Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Some Theory and Evidence,” (with Jang-Ting Guo), Annals of Economics and Finance, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2009, pg. 367-389.
- “Does a Rising Tide Raise All Ships Equally? The Effect of Growth on Income Distribution,” Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 17, No. 6, 2010, pg. 581-586.
- “Is the Relationship between Inequality and Growth Affected by Physical and Human Capital Accumulation?” (with Alan Krause), Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2010, pg. 153-172.
- “A Non-Parametric Measure of Poverty Elasticity,” (with Shatakshee Dhongde), Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 57, No. 4, 2011, pg. 683-703.
- “Culture and Growth: Some Empirical Evidence,” (with Susan Hamer), Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 64, No. 4, 2012, pg. 549-564.
- “Foreign Aid, Illegal Immigration, and Host Country Welfare,” (with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Jonathan Munemo), Review of Development Economics, Vol. 18, No. 2, May 2014, pg. 372–385.
- “Convergence in Income Distributions: Evidence from a Panel of Countries,” (with Shatakshee Dhongde), Economic Modelling, Vol. 59, 2016, pg. 262–270.
- “Are Countries becoming Equally Unequal?” (with Shatakshee Dhongde), Empirical Economics, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2017, pg. 1323-48.
Entrepreneurship
The following papers investigate different aspects of entrepreneurship and commerce, especially the relationship between regulations and entrepreneurship:
- “Quantifying Federal Regulatory Burdens in the Beer Value Chain,” (with Trey Malone), Agribusiness: An International Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2017, 466-471.
- “A Moving Target: The Geographic Evolution of Silicon Valley, 1953-1990,” (with Stephen Adams and Michael Schultz), Business History, Vol. 60, No. 6, 2018, pg. 859-883.
- “Natural Resource Dependency and Entrepreneurship: Are Nations with High Resource Rents Cursed?” (with Jonathan Munemo), Journal of International Development, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2019, pg. 137-164.
- “Regulations, Institutional Quality and Entrepreneurship,” (with Jonathan Munemo), Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 55, No. 1, 2019, pg. 46-66.
- “Employment and Output Effects of Federal Regulations on Small Business,” (with Jang-Ting Guo), Pacific Economic Review, 2021.
- “How Many Regulations Does It Take to Get a Beer? The Geography of Beer Regulations,” (with Trey Malone and Aaron Staples), Regulation & Governance, 2021.
- “Regulatory Restrictions Across U.S. Protein Supply Chains,” (with Richard Melstrom, Aaron Staples, and Trey Malone), Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2022, pg. 1-27.
- “Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Size,” (with Patrick McLaughlin and Tyler Richards), Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 61, 2022, pg. 108-134.
- “Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Dynamism” (with Patrick McLaughlin and Oliver Sherouse), forthcoming in Empirical Economics.