Research

Publications

·    “The Value of Pets: The Quantifiable Impact of Pets on Life Satisfaction”, with A. Gschwandtner, Social Indicators Research, 2025

·    “Comparing the cost of cirrhosis to other common chronic diseases: A longitudinal study in a large national insurance database”, with D. Ladner, C. Manski, F. Obradović, and others, Hepatology, pp 10-1097, 2025

·    “Can patterns of household purchases predict the outcome of US presidential elections?”, with S. Crowe, and S. Ille, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 44, Issue 3, pp. 1181-1187, 2024

·   “Qualitative, rather than quantitative, differences between HLA-DQ alleles affect HLA-DQ immunogenicity in organ transplantation”, with C. Maguire, A. Tambur, and others, HLA, Vol. 103, Issue 4, 2024.

·   “Increasing prevalence of cirrhosis among insured adults in the United States, 2012-2018”, with D. Ladner, C. Manski, and others, PLOS One, Vol. 19, Issue 2, 2024.

·   “Estimating the employment effect of the minimum wage through variation in compliance: Evidence from five US states”, with R. Gmeiner, Journal of Government and Economics, Vol. 12, Article 100096, 2023.

·   “Keeping up with Academic Jones’: Benchmarking and University Vice Chancellors’ Pay in the UK”, with A. Gschwandtner and R. McManus, Higher Education Policy, 2023, pp. 1-27.

·   “HLA-DQ Mismatches Lead to More Unacceptable Antigens, Greater Sensitization, and Increased Disparities in Repeat Transplant Candidates”, with D. Isaacson, J. Schold, H. Copley, V. Kosmoliaptsis, and  A. Tambur, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Vol. 33, Issue 12, 2022, pp. 2,293-2,305.

·   “Regulation Enforcement”, with R. Gmeiner, Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 43, 2022, pp. 163 - 202.                                      

·   “Encouraging Domestic Innovation by Protecting Foreign IP,” with R. Gmeiner, International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 69, Article 106000, 2021.

·   “Trait-Augmented Games with Limited-Skill Agents,” with V. Lambson, International Game Theory Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, Article 2150004, 2021.

·   “Predicting kidney transplant outcomes with partial knowledge of HLA mismatch,” with C. Manski and A. Tambur, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 116, No. 41, 2019, pp. 20339-20345.

·   “Seasonal Demand and Net Entry,” Economics Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2019, pp. 1135-1143.

·   “The gender gap in K-12 educator salaries,” with D. Fox and J. Price, Economics of Education Review, Vol. 68, 2019, pp. 23-26.

·   “History-Dependent Mixed Strategies: Evidence from Major League Baseball,” Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2019, pp. 371-398.

·   “A review of pornography use research: Methodology and results from four sources,” with J. Price and M. Worley, Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research in Cyberspace, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2015.

Working Paper                       

·   Assessing the Estimands and Estimates of Hospitalization Rates in Health Economics and Clinical Medicine

  This paper is joint work with Charles Manski, Daniela Ladner, Aditya Jain, Gil Peled, Filip Obradovic, Federico Crippa, and Yeshaya Nussbaum.