Publications

Published or forthcoming peer-reviwed papers

• "Do Experts and Laypersons Differ? Some Evidence from International Classical Music Competitions." (with Roberto Asmat and Karol J. Borowiecki). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 214 (October 2023): 270-290. Latest unpublished verison available as SSRN Working Paper No. 4246573.

• "Industry Size and Regulation: Evidence from US States." (with Patrick A. McLaughlin). Public Choice 192 (1-2): 1-29 (July 2022). Lead article. An earlier version is available as SSRN Working Paper No. 3848149.

• "Coercion, Obnoxious Tasks, and Economic Efficiency." (with Soham Baski and Pinaki Bose). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 177 (1) (March 2021): 120-34.

• "Did Early Twentieth Century Alcohol Prohibition Affect Mortality?" (with Mindy S. Marks). Economic Inquiry 58 (2) (April 2020): 680-97. An earlier version is available as SSRN Working Paper No. 3276349.

• "The Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing Laws in Nursing." (with Mindy S. Marks). Industrial Relations 56 (4) (October 2017). 640-61.

• "Political Centralization, Federalism, and Urban Development: Evidence from US and Canadian Capital Cities." (with Sukkoo Kim). Social Science History 40 (1) (Spring 2016): 121-46.

• "From Certificaton to Licensure: Evidence from Registered and Practical Nurses in the United States." (with Mindy S. Marks). European Journal of Comparative Economics 10 (2), (August 2013): 177-98.

• "Occupational Licensing and Minorities: A Reply to Klein, Powell, and Vorotnikov." (with Mindy S. Marks). Econ Journal Watch 9 (3) (September 2012): 234-55.

• "What do Revolving Door Laws do?" (with Cheryl Long). Journal of Law and Economics 55 (2) (May 2012): 421-36.

• "History, Institutions, and Cities: A View from the Americas." (with Sukkoo Kim). Journal of Regional Science 52 (1) (February 2012): 10-39.

• "Revolving Door Laws and Public Utility Commissioners." (with Cheryl Long). Regulation and Governance 5 (4) (December 2011): 405-24.

• "The Rise of the American Regulatory State: A View from the Progressive Era." (with Sukkoo Kim). In David Levi-Faur (ed.). Handbook on the Politics of Regulation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2011): 113-128.

• "Medical Licensing Board Characteristics and Physician Discipline: An Empirical Analysis." (with Zeynep K. Hansen). Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 35 (1) (February 2010): 63-93. Earlier version available as NBER Working Paper No. 15140. This paper was summarized in the November 2009 issue of the NBER Digest and is featured as a "Finding" in the chapter on physician manpower in Paul Feldstein (2012). Health Economics: Seventh Edition (Cengage), p. 408.

• "The Effects of Occupational Licensing Laws on Minorities: Evidence from the Progressive Era." (with Mindy S. Marks). Journal of Law and Economics 52 (2) (May 2009): 351-66.  An earlier version is available as SSRN Working Paper No. 943765.

• "Earmarked: The Political Economy of Agricultural Research Appropriations." (with Joseph M. Tonon and Gary J. Miller). Review of Agricultural Economics 30 (2) (Summer 2008): 194-213. Lead article. (NB: Review of Agricultural Economics was relaunched in 2010 as Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy). An earlier version is available as SSRN Working Paper No. 823525.

• "The Political Economy of Truth-in-Advertising Regulation during the Progressive Era." (with Zeynep K. Hansen). Journal of Law and Economics 51 (2) (May 2008): 251-69. An earlier verison is available as NBER Working Paper No. 11927.

• "How do Regulators Regulate? Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drugs Act, 1907-38." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 22 (2) (October 2006): 459-89. An earlier version is available as SSRN Working Paper No. 833944.

• "The Strange Budgetary Politics of Agricultural Research Appropriations." (with Joseph M. Tonon). Public Budgeting and Finance 26 (3) (September 2006): 1-21. Lead article.

• "The Determinants of Progressive Era Reform: The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906." (with Gary D. Libecap). In Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goildin (eds). Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2006): 319-42. An earlier version is available as NBER Working Paper No. 10984.

• "Specialization and Regulation: The Rise of Professionals and the Emergence of Occupational Licensing Regulation." (with Sukkoo Kim).  Journal of Economic History 65 (3) (September 2005): 723-56. An earlier verison is available as NBER Working Paper No. 10467.

• "The Origins of State Pure Food Regulation." Journal of Economic History 63 (4) (December 2003): 1103-1130.

Other publications

• "Review of Dominic A. Pacyga Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made."  Journal of Economic History 77 (2) (June 2017): 618-20.

• "Food and Drugs Regulation in the United States." In Paul J. Quirk and William Cunion (eds.). Governing America: Major Policies and Decisions of Federal, State, and Local Governments: Volume 1. New York, NY: Facts on File (2011)., pp. 126-31.

• "Review of Jan McTavhish Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America." EH.NET Economic History Services, May 2008.

• "History of Food and Drug Regulation in the United States." Refereed entry for the EH.NET Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, edited by Robert Whaples, October 2004.

• "Specialization, Information, and Regulation in American Economic History." (Dissertation Summary) Journal of Economic History (June 2004), 64 (2): 558-562. Selected as one of three finalists for the 2003 Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation on an American economic history topic.