Graded Walks: How Students' Dorm Locations Affect Grade Performance, preprint, November 2025. With Adam D. Jutt and Roswell Miller.
Are Elite Colleges Getting More Affordable?, Urban Wire, October 27, 2021. With Sandy Baum.
Moving Beyond Free: A College Affordability Compact for the Next Generation, Third Way, Academix Series. With Christopher Marsicano, July 28, 2021.
Drivers of Community College Costs and Prices, Change, 51 (3), May 2019, 21-27. (With Richard M. Romano). doi.org/10.1080/00091383.2019.1606583
Drivers of the Rising Price of a College Education, Midwest Higher Education Compact, August 2018. With Robert B. Archibald.
Federal Financial Aid Policy and College Behavior, American Council on Education, March 2016, with Robert B. Archibald.
A Quality-Preserving Increase in Four-Year College Attendance, Journal of Human Capital, 9 (3), Fall 2015, 265-297. (With Robert B. Archibald and Peter McHenry). DOI: 10.1086/682355
Older Work, but well cited!
The Anatomy of College Tuition, American Council on Education, April 2012, with Robert B. Archibald.
Explaining Increases in Higher Education Costs, Journal of Higher Education, 79 (May/June 2008), 268-295. (with Robert B. Archibald).
Why Do Higher Education Costs Rise More Rapidly than Prices in General, Change, 40 (3), Aug. 2008, 25-31. (with Robert B. Archibald).
Graduation Rates and Accountability: Regressions versus Production Frontiers, Research in Higher Education 49 (February 2008), 80-106. (with Robert B. Archibald).
State Higher Education Spending and the Tax Revolt, Journal of Higher Education, 77 (July/August 2006), 618-644. (with Robert B. Archibald).
Investment During the Great Depression: Uncertainty and the Role of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Southern Economic Journal, 64 (April 1998), 857-879, (with Robert B. Archibald).
Redundant Tariffs as Rational Endogenous Protection, Economic Inquiry, 31 (July 1993), 436-47.
Financial Development and the Price of Services, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 38 (January1990), 341-52. (with Ira N. Gang).