Research Papers

Commercial Wind Turbines and Residential Home Values: New Evidence from the Universe of Land-Based Wind Projects in the United States, (with Ben Hoen and David Schwegman), Energy Policy, 2024.

How Much Does Public School Facility Funding Depend on Property Wealth?, (with David Schwegman and Jeffrey Vincent), Education Finance & Policy, 2023.

The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System, (with Shaun Dougherty and Steve Ross), NBER Working Paper, 2021 & Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023.

Shedding Light on Large-Scale Solar Impacts: An Analysis of Property Values and Proximity to Photovoltaics across Six U.S. States,” (with Salma Elmallah, Sydny Fujita, Dana Robson, and Ben Hoen), Energy Policy, 2023.

Commercial Wind Energy Installations and Local Economic Development: Evidence from U.S. Counties, (with David Schwegman), Energy Policy, 2022.

School District Revenue Shocks, Resource Allocations, and Student Achievement: Evidence from the Universe of U.S. Wind Energy Installations, (with Ben Hoen and Josh Hyman), Journal of Public Economics, 2022.

Windfall Profits from Windfarms: How do County Governments Respond to Increased Local Revenue?,” (with David Schwegman), Public Budgeting & Finance, 2022.

Property Tax Information and Support for School Bond Referenda: Experimental Evidence,” (with Mark Robbins and Bill Simonsen), Public Administration Review, 2021

Teacher Accountability Reforms and the Supply and Quality of New Teachers, (with Matthew Kraft, Shaun Dougherty, and David Schwegman), Journal of Public Economics, 2020.

School Finance Reforms, Teachers’ Unions, and the Allocation of School Resources, (with Josh Hyman and Andrew Ju), Review of Economics & Statistics, 2020.

Teacher Labor Market Responses to Statewide Reform: Evidence from Michigan, (with Josh Cowen, Katherine Strunk and Steve Drake), Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, 2019.

State Collective Bargaining Laws and Public Sector Pay, (with Andrew Ju), ILR Review, 2019.

Gentrification and Failing Schools: The Unintended Consequences of School Choice under NCLB (with Steve Billings & Steve Ross), Review of Economics & Statistics, 2018. 

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Financing School Facilities in California: A Ten-Year Perspective (with Jeffrey Vincent), Getting Down to Facts II. Technical Report. Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018.

The Impact of Georgia’s Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax on the Fiscal Behavior of Local School Districts, (with David Schwegman), National Tax Journal, 2017.

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Intergenerational Conflict and the Political Economy of Higher Education Funding, (with Erik Johnson), Journal of Urban Economics, 2016.

Homeowners, Renters and the Political Economy of Property Taxation, (with Steve Ross & Becky Simonsen), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015.

School Quality, School Choice and Residential Mobility, in Education, Land and Location, edited by Greg Ingram and Daphne Kenyon, Lincoln Institute Press: Cambridge, MA, 2014.

The Bargaining Power of Teachers' Unions and the Allocation of School Resources, (with Tim Squires), Journal of Urban Economics, 2013.

Does Less Income Mean Less Representation?, (with Steve Ross & Ebonya Washington), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2013.         Data Appendix for Paper.

School Facility Funding in Georgia and the Educational Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, (with Nick Warner), Georgia State University, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Fiscal Research Center, 2012.

Mobility, Housing Markets, and Schools: Estimating the Effects of Inter-District Choice Programs, (with Sung-Woo Cho & Randall Reback), Journal of Public Economics, 2012.

Economics and Policy Preferences: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and other Ballot Proposals, (with Steve Ross & Ebonya Washington), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011.

Is the Median Voter Decisive? Evidence from Referenda Voting Patterns, (with Steve Ross), Journal of Public Economics, 2010.

Probation Length and Teacher Salaries: Does Waiting Pay Off, (with Jennifer Imazeki), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010.

Universal Vouchers and Racial and Ethnic Segregation, (with Jennifer Imazeki and Steve Ross), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010.

Tiebout Choice and Universal School Vouchers, (with Jennifer Imazeki), Journal of Urban Economics, 2008.

Financing School Facilities in California, Getting Down to Facts, Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice, 2007.

California’s School Finance Reform: An Experiment in Fiscal Federalism, (with Jon Sonstelie), in W. Fischel (ed.), The Tiebout Model at Fifty: Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates,Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2006.

Can Government Competition Tame the Leviathan?” (with Ed Balsdon), National Tax Journal 2005.

Fiscal Stress and Voluntary Contributions to Public Schools, (with Jennifer Imazeki), Developments in School Finance: 2004, National Center for Education Statistics, 2005.

Intergenerational Conflict and the Political Economy of School Spending, (with Ed Balsdon), Journal of Urban Economics, 2004.

Private Demands for Public Capital: Evidence from California Bond Referenda, (with Ed Balsdon & Kim Rueben), Journal of Urban Economics, 2003.

Homeowners, Property Values and the Political Economy of the School Voucher," (with Jon Sonstelie), Journal of Urban Economics, 2003.

School Finance Reform and Voluntary Fiscal Federalism," (with Jon Sonstelie), Journal of Public Economics, 2003.

School Finance Reform and Housing Values: Evidence from the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, (with James Murdoch and Mark Thayer), Public Finance and Management, 2002.

Capitalization and the Voucher: An Analysis of Precinct Returns from California's Proposition 174, (with Jon Sonstelie and Mark Thayer). Journal of Urban Economics, 2001.

Financing New School Construction and Modernization: Evidence from California, (with Kim Rueben), National Tax Journal, 2001.

The Parcel Tax, Public Policy Institute of California, in Jon Sonstelie and Peter Richardson (ed.), School Finance and California’s Master Plan for Education, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA, 2001.

For Better or For Worse? School Finance Reform in California, (with Jon Sonstelie & Ken Ardon), Public Policy Institute of California, 2000.

Coping With Serrano: Voluntary Contributions to California's Local Public Schools, (with Jon Sonstelie), Proceedings of the 89’th Annual Conference on Taxation, National Tax Association.

Free Riders or Easy Riders?: An Examination of the Voluntary Provision of Public Radio, Public Choice, 1998.

An Empirical Test of Neutrality and the Crowding-out Hypothesis, Public Choice, 1997.