Research

Peer Reviewed Publications

• "Hurdles to Hops: How self-distribution laws affect craft brewery output”, (with James M. Harrison), Contemporary Economic Policy, forthcoming 2025.  http://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12668

• "Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea - Retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy", (with Ahmed S. Rahman).  Labour Economics, Volume 84, October 2023.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102407

• "The Deleterious Effects of Fatigue on Final Exam Performance", (with Michael A. Insler).  Economics of Education Review, Volume 90, October 2022. doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2022.102305

• "Ex-Tridenti Mercatus - Sea power and Maritime Trade in the Age of Globalization", (with Ahmed S. Rahman). Journal of International Economics, Volume 100, May 2016, 95-111. doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2016.03.001

• "Engineering and labor specialization during the industrial revolution", (with Ahmed S. Rahman). Cliometrica, 8(2), 173-200, 2014.  doi:10.1007/s11698-013-0098-y

• "Product Differentiation and Consumer Surplus in the Micro-finance Industry'", (with Katherine A. Smith, Ahmed S. Rahman and Daniel Chan). B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 13(2), 2013, 991-1022.   doi:10.1515/bejeap-2012-0046

• "Human capital and technological transition: Insights from the U.S. Navy" (with Ahmed S. Rahman).  Journal of Economic History, Vol. 71(3), 2011, 704-729.  doi: 10.1017/S0022050711001896

• "Time-Varying effects of human capital on military retention", Contemporary Economic Policy, 29(2), 2011, 231-249. doi:10.1111/j.1465-7287.2010.00220.x

• "Teenage dropouts and drug use: Does the specification of peer group structure matter?" Economics of Education Review, 28(4), 2009, 497-504. doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2008.11.001