Published, Accepted & Forthcoming Articles

"Bureaucratic Discretion in Policy Implementation: Evidence from the Allotment Era" (with Dustin Frye and Bryan Leonard) (forthcoming at Public Choice) [ paper ]
"Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing?" (with Mikhail Poyker) (forthcoming at Journal of Law and Economics ) [ paper ] [ NBER wp 25715] [ Anderson Review] [ Vox-CEPR] [ NPR] [ FAZ am Sonntag ]
"Political Parties Do Matter in U.S. Cities ... For Their Unfunded Pensions"
( American Economic Journal: Policy, vol 14(3), August 2022, p.1-23)
[ paper ] [ NBER wp 25601] [ Anderson Review]
"The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters" (with Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich, and Rodrigo Pinto)
( Economic Journal, vol. 132(641), Jan 2022, p.199-217)
[ paper ] [ NBER wp 23209] [ Vox-CEPR] [ Washington Post] [ Welt am Sonntag] [ Brian Lehrer Show]
"Rules Versus Norms: How Formal and Informal Institutions Shape Judicial Sentencing Cycles" (with Mikhail Poyker)
( Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 49(3), Sept 2021, p.645-659)
[ paper ] [ NBER wp 25716] [ The Economist ] [ Vox-CEPR] [ Anderson Review]
"Not-So-Natural Experiments in History" (with Bryan Leonard)
[ paper ] ( Journal of Historical Political Economy, vol. 1(1), June 2021, p.1-30)
"Secured Transactions Laws and Economic Development on American Indian Reservations" (with Donna Feir, Bryan Leonard, and Mark Roark)
[ paper ] ( AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol. 111, May 2021, p.248-52)
"Leadership and Social Movements: The Forty-Eighters in the Civil War" (with Stephan Heblich)
( American Economic Review, vol. 111(2), February 2021, p.472-505)
[ paper ] [ appendix ] [ NBER wp 24656] [ Anderson Review] [ Vox-CEPR]
Elite Identity, Political Accountability and Institutions: A Tale of 10 Islands (with Jean-Paul Carvalho)
( Economic Journal, vol. 130, issue 631, October 2020, Pages 1995-2029 )
[ Paper ] [ Data&Code ] [ NBER wp 22777] [ Anderson Review]
"ivmediate: Causal mediation analysis in instrumental variables regressions" (with Andreas Ferrara and Stephan Heblich)
( Stata Journal vol. 20, issue 3, September 2020 ) [ paper ] [ Code ]
"Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating" (with Avner Greif and Dan Trefler)
( Economic Journal vol. 130, issue 630, August 2020, Pages 1678-1714)
[ Paper ] [ Data&Code ] [ NBER wp 20958] [ A Fine Theorem] [ Vox-CEPR] [ Anderson Review]
"Foreign Aid and Voting in International Organizations: Evidence from the IWC"
( Journal of Public Economics vol. 132, December 2015, p.1-12)
[ Paper] [ Data] [ Foreign Policy Magazine] [ Slate]
"Forced Coexistence and Economic Development: Evidence from Native American Reservations"
( Econometrica vol. 82 issue 6, November 2014, p.2131-2165)
[ Paper] [ Appendix ] [ Data&Code ] [ GISmap ] [ A Fine Theorem]
"Essays in International Political Economy"
( Journal of Economic History vol. 73, issue 2, June 2013, Dissertation Summary)    
"Groseclose and Snyder in Finite Legislatures"
( Journal of Theoretical Politics vol. 24 issue 2 April 2012. p. 265-273)     [ Paper]

Working Papers

"Property Rights without Transfer Rights: A Study of Indian Land Allotments" (with Dustin Frye and Bryan Leonard)
[ paper ] (revision requested, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics ) [ NBER wp 27479] [ Anderson Review] [ Vox-CEPR] [ How the World Works Podcast]
"Leadership and Team Cohesion under Flying Bullets: Captains and their Companies in the Civil War" (with Andreas Ferrara) ( prepared for submission )
[ paper ] [ Anderson Review]
"The Educated American in the Age of Mass Migration: School Decentralization and Preference Heterogeneity" (with Sebastian Ottinger) ( prepared for submission )
[ Abstract ]
"The Effect of Land Allotment on Native American Households During the Assimilation Era" (with Dustin Frye)
[ paper ]
"The Economic Geography of the Fur Trade" (with with Kristian Behrens and Stephan Heblich)
"Mediation Analysis in IV Settings With a Single Instrument" (with Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich, Rodrigo Pinto)
[ paper ]

Work in Progress

"Does Increased Union Power Cause Pension Under-Funding in the Public Sector?" (with Zach Sauers)
[ Extended Abstract ]
"Shocking Debt Illusion: Actuarial Pension Plan Adjustments and House Price Capitalization" (with Zach Sauers)
[ Extended Abstract ]
"Uniform Commercial Code and Economic Development: Evidence from Native American Reservations" (with Donna Feir, Bryan Leonard, and Mark Roark)
[ Abstract ]
"Native Americans in the Historical Census: New Data and Applications" (with Dustin Frye)
[ Extended Abstract ]
"Managing the Empire" (with Florian Hoffman and Guo Xu)
[ Extended Abstract ]

Non-Refereed Publications

"Globalization and its (Dis-)Content: Trade Shocks and Voting Behavior" (with Robert Gold and Stephan Heblich)
[ NBER wp 21812] [ Vox-CEPR]
"Rule-of-Law and Human Capital Institutions" in `Nurturing Institutions for a Resilient Caribbean', Interamerican Development Bank, 2018 [ Snapshot]
"Colonial History and Institutions in the Caribbean" in `Nurturing Institutions for a Resilient Caribbean', Interamerican Development Bank, 2018 [ Snapshot]


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