Research Workshop

The Research Workshop features presentations of working research from external scholars that is not yet under consideration at scholarly journals or other academic outlets. The Research Workshop exposes the Institute's affiliated faculty, research staff, Ph.D. Fellows, and other university colleagues to new research questions and innovative research methodologies. It also provides opportunities for presenters to gain valuable feedback and criticism in advance of formal peer review.

Spring 2025

January 24 — The Social Consequences of Traditional Religion in Contemporary Africa— Sara Lowes — University of California, San Diego
January 31 — The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War — Ana Tur-Prats — University of California, Merced
February 7 — Malaria Aid, Economic Freedom, and Development — Byron Carson — Hampden-Sydney College
February 14 — Primaries in the U.S. Constitutional System: Safeguards Against Domestic Faction or Seeds of Elite Collusion? — Nikolai Wenzel — Universidad de las Hespérides
February 21 — Democratic Risks and Democratic Reforms — Alexandra Oprea — University at Buffalo, State University of New York
February 28 — Nationality Laws and Ethnic Group Incorporation — Zachary Elkins — The University of Texas at Austin
April 11 — Noel Maurer — The George Washington University
April 18 — Pedro Bento — Texas A&M University
April 25 — Development Mismatch? Evidence from Agricultural Policies in Pastoral Africa — Eoin McGuirk — Tufts University

Research Workshop Archive

2013-14

September 13 — An Exploration of States' Tax Code Complexity and Entrepreneurship— Rick Weber — Texas Tech University
October 18 — Crises and Government: Some Empirical Evidence — Andrew Young — West Virginia University
November 8 — The Chicago Fire of 1871: Bottom-Up Disaster Relief — Emily Skarbek — Kings College London
January 24 — Domaine Pas de Choix: Government Intervention in the Champagne Market — Nikolai Wenzel — Florida Gulf Coast University
February 14 — Dynamics of Intervention in the War on Drugs — Audrey Redford — Texas Tech University
February 28 — Explanations for Enron: Time for Revision — Robert Bradley, Jr. — Institute for Energy Research
March 28 — Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Evidence from Kansas Agriculture — Levi Russell — Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
April 18 — Aiding the Underground: Foreign Aid and the Shadow Economy — Kathleen Sheehan — West Virginia University

2014-15

September 12 — Mini-Conference on the Origins of Economic Freedom
- Ideas and Interests: Explaining Political Change — Edward Lopez — Western Carolina University
- Voter Preferences, Institutions, and Economic Freedom — Daniel Sutter — Troy University
- Does Immigration Impact Economic Freedom? — Robert Lawson — Southern Methodist University
September 19 — How to Promote Economic Freedom: A View from the Trenches — Matt Kibbe — FreedomWorks, Inc.
October 3 — Economic Freedom and Public, Non-Market Institutions: Evidence from Criminal Prosecution — Bryan McCannon — Saint Bonaventure University
October 17 — Comparative Political Economy and the Anatomy of a Crisis — Peter Boettke — George Mason University
October 31 — Causes of and Barriers to Economic Freedom — Raymond March — Texas Tech University
November 7 — Financial Foundations of Austrian Business Cycle Theory — Peter Lewin — The University of Texas at Dallas
December 5 — Sugar, Diamonds, and Economic Freedom — Scott Beaulier — Troy University
January 30 — Protection and the Income Tax Amendment: Wall Street's Reaction to the Tariff Debate of 1909 — Phillip Magness — Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University
February 13 — Institutional Quality and Democratic Transitions — Christopher Boudreaux — Texas A&M International University
February 27 — Do Universities Foster Entrepreneurship and Innovation? Evidence from Academic Incubators — Peter Klein — University of Missouri
March 11 — Public Policy from the Bottom Up — Peter Boettke — George Mason University
March 27 — Explaining the Worldwide Decline in Military Conscription: 1970-2010 — Joshua Hall — West Virginia University
April 17 — Distributional Impacts of Fat Taxes and Thin Subsidies — Jayson Lusk — Oklahoma State University
April 22 — Multi-state Health Plans: Agents for Competition or Consolidation? — Neil Meredith — West Texas A&M University

2015-16

September 11 — Mini-Conference on the Origins of Economic Freedom
- The Law and Economics of Northern Barbarians — Andrew Young — West Virginia University
- The Origins of Political and Economic Power: Group Formation and Institutional Evolution — Randall Holcombe — Florida State University
- The Treason of Rules: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Representative Government — Adam Martin — Texas Tech University
- The Institutional Sources of Political Dysfunction: Under-appreciated Maladies of the Political Commons — Alexander Salter — Texas Tech University
- Institutional Convergence: Exit or Voice? — Joshua Hall — West Virginia University
- The Relationship between Big Interests and Economic Freedom: The 1856 San Francisco Businessman's Revolution — Edward Stringham — Trinity College
- The Global Spread of Think Tanks and Economic Freedom — Benjamin Powell — Texas Tech University
- The Impact of Social Trust on Economic Freedom in 50 Countries — James Ruhland — Texas Tech University
- Aggregate Demand Shortfalls and Economic Institutions — Taylor Smith — Texas Tech University
October 2 — Reassessing Frederic Bastiat as an Economic Theorist — David Hart — Liberty Fund, Inc.
October 23 — Beyond Piketty, the Pope, and the President: How Lawyers Increase Income Inequality — J. Robert Subrick — James Madison University
October 30 — Institutional Foundations of State Capacity: The Importance of Political Property Rights — Alexander Salter — Texas Tech University
November 6 — The Rise and Decline of Nations: The Dynamic Properties of Institutional Reform — Russell Sobel — The Citadel
December 4 — Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change: The Case of Surrogate Motherhood — Pavel Kuchar — University of Guanajuato
February 19 — Crisis Facilitates Policy Change, Not Liberalization — Marshall Stocker — Eaton Vance Investment Managers
February 26 — Criminal Injustice: The System-Wide Failure of Criminal Law and Its Enforcement — Bruce Benson — Florida State University
February 29 — What Matters More? Institutions or Specifications? — Robert Lawson — Southern Methodist University
March 4 — Feud as Law — David Friedman — Santa Clara University
March 25 — Economic Institutions and Comparative Economic Development: A Post-Colonial Perspective — Daniel Bennett — Patrick Henry College
April 7 — Witch Trials — Peter Leeson — George Mason University
April 22 —For Her Own Good: Ideology and Interests in Progressive Era Regulation of Women's Labor — Jayme Lemke — Mercatus Center at George Mason University
April 29 — Yes Virginia, There is a Law Merchant — Bruce Benson — Florida State University

2016-17

August 26 — Austrian Perspectives on Business Valuation — Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis Symposium
- Capital Valuation: What Is It and Why Does It Matter? Insights from Austrian Capital Theory — Peter Lewin — The University of Texas at Dallas
- Austrian Economics, Market Process, and the EVA Framework — Nicolas Cachanosky — Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Adversarial Versus Inquisitorial Systems: Error and Valuation — Shruti Rajagopalan — State University of New York, Purchase
- Incorporating Social Capital into the Austrian Business Cycle Theory — Daniel D'Amico — Brown University
- Economic Calculation and the Productivity of Investment — Benjamin Powell — Texas Tech University
- Private Governance and the Pricing of Political Enterprises — Alexander Salter — Texas Tech University
- Investment in New Proved Oil Reserves: An Austrian Perspective — Bradley Ewing — Texas Tech University
September 9 — Unintended Consequences of Economic Sanctions for Human Rights: Conflict Minerals and Infant Mortality in the Congo — Dominic Parker — University of Wisconsin—Madison
September 30 — The State Intervention Failure on a Large Infrastructure Project: The Case of the Transnortheastern Railway in Brazil — Vladimir Maciel — Mackenzie Presbyterian University
October 7 — Banning Bitcoin — William Luther — Kenyon College
October 21 — The Boomerang Effect: When Social Control Comes Home — Christopher Coyne — George Mason University
October 28 — Public Choice as Political Philosophy — David Schmidtz — University of Arizona
November 4 — Barbarians at the Gates: Did Immigrants Degrade the United States' Institutions? — Alexandre Padilla — Metropolitan State University of Denver
November 11 — Monopsony and Industrial Development in Nineteenth Century Quebec: The Impact of Seigneurial Tenure — Vincent Geloso — Texas Tech University
December 9 — Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom — Ryan Murphy — Southern Methodist University
January 20 — Historical Influences on Current Economic Freedom — Stephan Gohmann — University of Louisville
February 10 — Expansion of the Voting Franchise and Income Tax Adoption: Evidence from U.S. States — Maria Tackett — Gonzaga University
February 24 — Cultural Paternalism & the Libertarian Club Conundrum — Anthony Gill — University of Washington
March 31 —Currency Depreciation and the Monetary Adjustment Process: Reconsidering Lord King's Contributions — Joseph Salerno — Pace University
April 21 — The Spread of Improvement: Why Innovation Accelerated in Britain, 1547-1851 — Anton Howes — Brown University
April 28 — Normative Interests and Eudaimonia — Mark LeBar — Florida State University
May 23 — Care to Wager Again? An Appraisal of Paul Ehrlich's Counter-Bet Offer to Julian Simon — Pierre Desrochers — University of Toronto Mississauga

2017-18

August 25 — Governing Natural Resources in the American West Research Workshop Conference
- Resource Governance in the American West: Bottom-Up or Top-Down? — Peter J. Hill — Wheaton College
- The Language We Speak: Addressing Property Rights and Natural Resources Problems — Andrew Morriss — Texas A&M University
- Custom and the Formalization of Mineral Property Rights: Evidence from the Supreme Court of Colorado, 1868-1895 — Eric Alston — University of Colorado Boulder
- The Effects of Cost Depletion Allowance on the Ogallala Aquifer — Zachary Donohew — University of Central Arkansas
- Prime Land, Property Rights, and Paternalism: Economic Performance and Resource Endowments on American Indian Reservations — Bryan Leonard — Arizona State University
- Beef Cattle Producers' Response to Endangered Species Regulations — Trey Malone — Michigan State University
- Oil Rents and State Economic Policy — Dean Stansel — Southern Methodist University
- The Political Economy of Water Rights in Southern Arizona - Late 19th Century — Mario Villareal-Diaz — University of Arizona
- Developing Together? Understanding the Interaction between Federal Lands, Amenity-Based Tourism, and Extractive Industries — Ryan Yonk — Utah State University
September 8 — Liberalization and the Poor in India: An Analysis of the Ownership Patterns of Three Consumer Durables — GP Manish — Troy University
September 15 — Is there Adaptation along the Temperature-Conflict Nexus? Evidence from the El Niño Southern Oscillation — Daniel Hicks — University of Oklahoma
September 22 — Ride-Sharing, Fatal Crashes, and Crime — Sean Mulholland — Western Carolina University
September 29 — Craigslist's Effect on Violence Against Women — Gregory DeAngelo — West Virginia University
October 13 — Political Systems, Institutional Memory, and Economic Freedom — Todd Nesbit — Ball State University
October 20 — Government Growth, Institutional Erosion, and the Fiscal Squeeze: Nebraska as a Case Study — Diana Thomas — Creighton University
October 27 — Liberty vs. Security: The Non-Existent Tradeoff — David Henderson — Hoover Institution at Stanford University
November 3 — The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality — D. Mark Anderson — Montana State University
November 10 — Bank Lending and Interest on Excess Reserves — Thomas Hogan — Troy University
December 1 — Human Capital and its Critics: Gary Becker, Institutionalism, and Anti-Neoliberalism — Lawrence H. White — George Mason University
January 19 — The Political/Ideological Orientation of Visiting Speakers on 200 American Campuses: Restoring Intellectual Competition — Richard Vedder — Ohio University
January 26 — The Federal Reserve in the Shadow of the Bank of Japan — Gerald O'Driscoll — Cato Institute
February 2 — Modelling the Industrial Revolution as a Novel Economic Good, a Contribution Good — Terence Kealey — Cato Institute
February 16 — The New Deal and Agricultural Investment in Machinery and Work Animals: Cotton Farms During the Great Depression — Price Fishback — University of Arizona
February 23 — Civil Asset Forfeiture, Crime, and Police Incentives: Evidence from the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 — Carl Kitchens — Florida State University
March 2 — Science vs. Humanities in Economics, a Humanistic and Quantitative Science — Deirdre McCloskey — University of Illinois at Chicago
March 23 — The Riksbank, Emergency Finance, Policy Experimentation, and Sweden's Reversal of Fortune — Joshua Hendrickson — University of Mississippi
April 6 — Tax Incidence and Tax-Based Measures of Inequality in the United States, 1917-1941 — Phillip Magness — Berry College
April 13 — Incapacitating Drug Users: Evidence from Prison Construction — Scott Cunningham — Baylor University
April 20 — An Analytical Theory of Just Market Exchange — Michael Munger — Duke University
April 27 — You Say You Want a (Rose) Revolution? The Effects of Georgia's 2004 Market Reforms — Robert Lawson — Southern Methodist University
May 4 — Political Economy of Cultural Districts: The Diffusion of Cultural District Laws Across U.S. States — Amir Neto — West Virginia University

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

2019-20

September 6 — Neo-Classical and Endogenous Growth Theory: An Austrian Critique — Jeffrey Rogers Hummel — San Jose State University
September 13 — A Hayekian Open Community — Chad van Schoelandt — Tulane University
September 20 — Were U.S. Banks Really Stable After WWII? — Christy Chapin — University of Maryland Baltimore County
September 27 — Economic Freedom Convergence: Does Culture Matter? — Danko Tarabar — Winthrop University
October 4 — The Political Economy of Propaganda — Abigail Blanco — University of Tampa
October 11 — The Impact of Terrorism on Social Capital: Evidence from the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Paris Shooting — Ian McDonough — University of Nevada, Las Vegas
November 1 — Inter-tribal Conflict: Cultural Versus Economic Explanations — Bruce Benson — Florida State University
November 8 — Rational Chef Theory — Ennio Piano — Middle Tennessee State University
November 15 — The Effects on Consumers from State-Imposed Regulation of the Payday Loan Market — Todd Zywicki — George Mason University
December 6 — Do Elderly Individuals Delay Claiming Social Security and Cash-out Home Equity when House Prices Appreciate? — Amanda Ross — The University of Alabama
January 17 — Campaigning for Retirement: State Teacher Union Campaign Contributions and Pension Generosity — Gary Wagner — University of Louisiana at Lafayette
January 24 — Exploring How Regulation Shapes Technology Startups — Liya Palagashvili — State University of New York-Purchase
January 31 — Army Enlistment and Free Community College: The Case of Tennessee Promise — Michael Kofoed — United States Military Academy
February 7 — Does Balance Among Areas of Institutional Quality Matter for Economic Growth? — Russell Sobel — The Citadel
February 21 — Is the Rate of Scientific Progress Slowing Down? — Tyler Cowen — George Mason University
February 28 — When Less is More: Central Bank Transparency and the Publication of Monetary Policy Voting Records — Caitlin Ainsley — University of Washington
March 6 — Mobilizing Parents at Home and at School: An Experiment on Primary Education in Angola — Danila Serra — Texas A&M University

2020-21

September 11 — The Socialist Calculation Debate's Centennial: New Challenges, State Capacity, and State Capitalism — Leonid Krasnozhon — Loyola University New Orleans
September 18 — Sorting Out the Aid-Corruption Nexus — Andrew Young — Texas Tech University
September 25 — Closing the STEM Gender Gap: Choice, Access, and Policies in Mexico City High Schools — Andrew Dustan — Vanderbilt University
October 2 — Institutional Change and Entrepreneurial Choice: A Model of Rent-Seeking Derived from U.S. Constitutional History — Robert Wright — Georgia College and State University
October 9 — Cloudy with a Chance of Munchies: Assessing the Impact of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Obesity Using a Synthetic Control Approach — Raymond March — North Dakota State University
October 16 — The Effects of Occupational Licensing Reform for Nurse Practitioners on Children's Health — Moiz Bhai — University of Arkansas at Little Rock
October 23 — The Political Economy of Substance Misuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic — Audrey Redford — Western Carolina University
October 30 — Metaphysical Realism and Avoiding the Political Idealist-Realist Dichotomy — Douglas Rasmussen — St. John's University
November 6 — The Elasticity of Aggregate Output with Respect to Labor and Capital — Dietrich Vollrath — University of Houston
November 13 — The Comparative Endurance and Efficiency of Religion — Anthony Gill — University of Washington
December 4 — Hungry for Success? SNAP Timing, High-Stakes Exam Performance, and College Attendance — Jillian Carr — Purdue University
January 29 — Graduate Student Workshop
- The Effect of Sanctions on Economic Freedom — Gor Mkrtchian — Texas Tech University
- Paying in Advance? Political Survival and Military Expenditure — Henry Moncrieff — Texas Tech University
February 5 — Graduate Student Workshop
- The Political Economy of Lighthouses in Antebellum America — Justin Callais — Texas Tech University
- Still a Neo-Classical Anomaly? Re-Examining Income and Input Convergence — Daniel Sánchez-Piñol — Texas Tech University
February 12 — Bad Men, Good Roads, Jim Crow, and the Economics of Southern Chain Gangs — Howard Bodenhorn — Clemson University
February 19 — Leadership and Organizations — Lee Alston — Indiana University Bloomington
February 26 — Right-to-Work and Employment and Establishment Mobility: A Spatial Border Analysis — Todd Nesbit — Ball State University
March 5 — The Calculus of Dissent: Bias and Conformity in FOMC Forecasts — Thomas Hogan — American Institute for Economic Research
March 26 — What Did Adam Smith Mean? The Semantics of the Opening Key Principles in the Wealth of Nations — Bart Wilson — Chapman University
April 2 — A Cognitive Approach to Stakeholder Enrollment Under Knightian Uncertainty — Peter Klein — Baylor University
April 16 — Consumer Sovereignty and W.H. Hutt's Critique of the Colour Bar — Art Carden — Samford University
April 23 — Are Economic Arguments Against Immigration Missing the Boat? The Institutional Effect of the Mariel Boatlift — Claudia Williamson — University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
April 30 — Don't TREAD on Anyone: The Political Economy and Effectiveness of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems — Sean Mulholland — Western Carolina University
May 7 — Testing Stiglitz: Rent-Seeking and Income Distribution — Stephen Miller — Troy University

2021-22

September 10 — On the Complexity of Forming Mental Models — Ryan Oprea — University of California, Santa Barbara
September 24 — Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Theory and Evidence from Colonial Mexico — Francisco Garfias — University of California, San Diego
October 1 — Why Swing State Voting Is Not (Usually) Effective Altruism: The Bad News about the Good News about Voting — Jason Brennan — Georgetown University
October 8 — Scope of Practice and Opioid Prescribing Behavior of Nurse Practitioners Serving Medicare Beneficiaries — Alicia Plemmons — Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
October 15 — Can Dollarization Constrain a Populist Leader? The Case of Rafael Correa in Ecuador — Nicolas Cachanosky — Metropolitan State University of Denver
October 22 — Market Microstructure and Informational Efficiency — Brian Albrecht — Kennesaw State University
October 29 — Economic and Political Effects of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia — Luis Martinez — University of Chicago
November 5 — The Making of Mexico: The Political Economy of Conquest and Independence — Fernando Arteaga, Academic Director — University of Pennsylvania
November 12 — Asymmetry in Civic Information: An Experiment on Tax Participation Among Informal Firms in Togo — Paul Dower — University of Wisconsin—Madison
January 21 — Statelessness and the Commons: Fisheries and Economic Development in the Gaspesian Peninsula circa 1830 — Vincent Geloso — George Mason University
January 28 — Being Seen: How Markets Impact Our Moral Sentiments — Colin Harris — St. Olaf College
February 11 — The Morality of Illicit Markets: The Soviet and Post-Soviet Case — Peter Boettke — George Mason University
February 18 — From Free Competition to Fair Competition in the European Internal Market — Nils Karlson — Ratio Institute
February 25 — Shipwrecked by Rents — Desiree Desierto — University of Pittsburgh
March 4 — Following Their Leaders: Political Preferences and Public Policy — Randall Holcombe — Florida State University
March 25 — Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire — Felipe Valencia Caicedo — The University of British Columbia
April 8 — Consumer Inflation Expectations: Daily Dynamics — Carola Binder — Haverford College
April 22 — The Calculus of American Indian Consent: The Law and Economics of Tribal Constitutions — Louis Rouanet — Western Kentucky University
April 29 — The Impact of the Black Death on the Adoption of the Printing Press — Noel Johnson — George Mason University
May 6 — Criminal Behavior during Electricity Blackouts: Evidence from Cape Town, South Africa — Kerianne Lawson — North Dakota State University

2022-23

August 26 — Segregation Legacies: Coercion, Resistance, and the Geography of Indigenous Enclaves in Mexico — Jenny Guardado Rodriguez — Georgetown University
September 9 — Laissez-Faire Democracy? — Christopher Freiman — College of William & Mary
September 16 — The Fractured-Land Hypothesis — Mark Koyama — George Mason University
September 23 — Noxious Government Markets: Evidence From the International Arms Trade — Christopher Coyne — George Mason University
September 30 — Machine Gun Politics: Why Politicians Cooperate with Criminal Groups — Jessie Trudeau — Brown University
October 14 — (Coase)a Nostra — Henry Thompson — University of Mississippi
October 21 — Languages, Ideologies, and Collective Action Problems — Yang Zhou — University of North Texas
November 4 — Democracy, Dictatorship, and the Monetary Commons — Bryan Cutsinger — Angelo State University
November 11 — Identification of Right-Wing Extremist Discourse and Its Effects on Political Violence: A Case Study on Parler — David Muchlinski — Georgia Institute of Technology
December 2 — Measuring Constitutional Textual Entrenchment and Long Run Associated Outcomes — Eric Alston — University of Colorado Boulder
January 20 — The Impact of R1 Classification on Universities — Justin Callais — University of Louisiana at Lafayette
January 27 — Canadian Evidence on the American Antebellum Puzzle — Vincent Geloso — George Mason University
February 3 — Uncertain Times: The Causal Effects of Coups on National Income — Kevin Grier — Texas Tech University
February 10 — The Impact of City-County Mergers: Evidence from Sichuan Province— Linan Peng — Southeastern Louisiana University
February 17 — Women's Property Rights, Factors of Production and Economic Growth — Kathleen Sheehan — Creighton University
February 24 — The Impact of Drug-Induced Homicide Laws on Unintentional Drug Overdose Deaths — Audrey Redford — Hampden-Sydney College
March 3 — Does Oil Production Matter for State Level Inflation? — James Dean — North Dakota State University
March 24 — Friends or Foes? The Insurgent’s Dilemma of Seeking Legitimacy While Keeping Secrets — Edwar Escalante — Angelo State University
March 31 — The Impact of State Voting Processes in the 2020 Election: Estimating their Effects on Voter Turnout, Voting Method, and the Spread of COVID-19 — Samuel Absher — RAND Corporation
April 7 — Lockdown and COVID-19: A US State Dynamic Panel Analysis — Michael Makovi — Northwood University
April 21 — Shock Me Like a Hurricane: How Hurricane Katrina Changed Louisiana's Formal and Informal Institutions — Raymond March — North Dakota State University
April 28 — Individualism and Financial Inclusion for Females — Israt Jahan — University of Wisconsin—La Crosse
May 5 — Removing Regulatory Barriers to Banking through Cryptointermediation: The Expansion of Cryptocurrency Markets in Africa — Edward Stringham — Trinity College

2023-24

September 8 — Testing Political Antitrust — Nolan McCarty — Princeton University
September 15 — Money and Business Cycles: A Historical Comparison — Peter Ireland — Boston College
September 22 — Do Campaign Finance Regulations Limit the 'Actuality and Appearance' of Corruption? — Jeffrey Milyo — University of Missouri
September 29 — Toward a Methodologically Consistent Measure of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917-2020 — Phillip Magness — American Institute for Economic Research
October 6 — Deficit as Policy: Widening the Scope of Debt-Financed Spending in the United States, 1792-Present — Peter Calcagno — College of Charleston
October 13 — Socially Distributed Ignorance — Hrishikesh Joshi — The University of Arizona
October 20 — Raising the Bar: A Prosperity Line for Global Inclusion — Lant Pritchett — London School of Economics and Political Science
November 10 — The Political Economy of Criminal Governance — David Skarbek — Brown University
January 19 — Unpacking Transaction Costs in the Prior Appropriation System: New Evidence from a Century of Irrigation Decisions — Katherine Wright — Property and Environment Research Center
January 26 — Echo Chambers, Business, and the Good Life — Gregory Robson — Iowa State University
February 2 — The Political Economy of State Economic Development: A Path to Unproductive Entrepreneurship — Peter Calcagno — College of Charleston
February 9 — Philanthropy, Ostromian Governance, and Institutional Analysis — Malavika Nair — Texas Tech University
February 16 — Bigness Alone is NOT an Offense: Antitrust Forces Market Failure — Michael Munger — Duke University
February 23 — Regulation and the Capital Structure: Implications for Growth and Inequality — Gurumani Manish — Texas Tech University
March 1 — You Work For Us Now: Concentration in University-Performed Defense R&D — Chandler Reilly — Metropolitan State University of Denver
March 22 — Social Norm Obedience and the Gender Competitiveness Gap — Daniel Houser — George Mason University
March 29 — A Message to You Rudy: 2 Tone and Social Entrepreneurship — Nicholas Snow — Wabash College
April 12 — The Proto-Coasean Insights of Bernard Mandeville — Daniel D'Amico — Wabash College
April 19 — The Problem of the Common School — Catherine Pakaluk — The Catholic University of America
April 26 — Constitutional Change among American Indian Tribes — Ennio Piano — Middle Tennessee State University

2024-25

September 6 — Can Dollarization Mitigate the Macroeconomic Cost of Populism? Lessons from Latin America — Nicolas Cachanosky — The University of Texas at El Paso
September 13 — Configuring Polycentric Federalism to Ethnically Diverse Societies in Africa — Kaleb Demerew — West Texas A&M University
September 20 — Why Rawls Is Wrong About Constitutional Amendment — Richard Albert — The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
September 27 — Magna Carta — Desiree Desierto — George Mason University
October 4 — The First Age of Egalitarian Enrichment: America from 1865 to 1929 — Vincent Geloso — George Mason University
October 11 — Gambling for America: The First Wave of Migration to the Americas, 1492-1540 — Leticia Arroyo Abad — Queens College & Graduate Center, City University of New York
October 18 — Why Do Employers Establish Retirement Savings Plans? Evidence from State 'Auto-IRA' Policies — Sita Slavov — George Mason University
October 25 — The Economic Costs of Political Assassination: Evidence from the Nepalese Royal Massacre — Veeshan Rayamajhee — New Mexico State University
November 1 — Built to Fail: Bureaucratic Legacies and State-Building in Afghanistan — Jennifer Murtazashvili — University of Pittsburgh
November 8 — Regulatory Robustness — Todd Zywicki — George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
November 15 — Did Henry Ford Really Pay Efficiency Wages? — Rosolino Candela — Mercatus Center at George Mason University

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