Research Workshop

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2018-19

• September 7 — The Political Economy of Italian Unification: Insecurity of Property Rights and the Role of Land Reform — Rosolino Candela — Brown University
• September 14 — Committee Rotation — Daniel Smith — Middle Tennessee State University
• September 21 — Minimum Wage Increases and Individual Employment Trajectories — Jacob Vigdor — University of Washington
• September 28 — Institutions Matter: Political Ideology, Race, and Health Disparities — Jane Ruseski — West Virginia University
• October 5 — Creativity in a Theory of Entrepreneurship — James Caton — North Dakota State University
• October 19 — What is Still Wrong with the Austrian School of Economics? — Peter Boettke — George Mason University
• October 26 — The Gender Wage Gap: An Analysis of U.S. Congressional Staff Members — Peter Calcagno — College of Charleston
• November 2 — The Development and Instability of Predatory Government: Conquest, Taxation, Avoidance Efforts, and Rent Seeking — Bruce Benson — Florida State University
• November 9 — Analyzing Sports Tourism Using Hotel Occupancy Data — E. Frank Stephenson — Berry College
• November 9 — Using New Within-Industry Competition Measures to Examine the Impacts of Regulation — Todd Nesbit — Ball State University
• November 30 — The Impact of Economic Freedom on Gender Norms — Rosemarie Fike — Texas Christian University
• January 18 — How Growth Happens: Liberalism, Innovism, and the Great Enrichment — Deirdre McCloskey — University of Illinois at Chicago
• February 1 — Quasi-Legal Property Rights — Ilia Murtazashvilli — University of Pittsburgh
• February 8 — The Invisible Contract: Agreement and Spontaneous Order in Social Life — John Thrasher — Chapman University
• February 15 — Economic Freedom and Migration: A Metro Area-Level Analysis — Dean Stansel — Southern Methodist University
• February 22 — The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration: Implications for Policy — Pia M. Orrenius — Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• March 1 — Rent-Seeking for Madness: The Political Economy of Mental Institutionalization in America, 1880 to 1923 — Vincent Geloso — Bates College
• March 22 — Social Security Wealth and the US Wealth Distribution — Dennis Jansen — Texas A&M University
• March 29 — What is Quantum Game Theory, and Why Should Economists Care? — Steven Landsburg — University of Rochester
• April 12 — Economic Development Incentives: Fostering Productive or Unproductive Entrepreneurship? — John Dove — Troy University
• April 26 — Monetary Rules without Romance — Bryan Cutsinger — George Mason University
• May 3 — The Decline of the Courts-Martial in the United States — Julia Norgaard — Pepperdine University