Forthcoming Publications

• "School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity," with Rusty Tchernis and Muna Husain.  Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.  [IZA DP3664] [Appendix B]

• "Detailed Estimation of Worklife Expectancy for the Measurement of Human Capital: Accounting for Marriage and Children," with Michael Nieswiadomy and Daniel J. Slottje.  Journal of Economic Surveys, forthcoming.  [pdf] [tables]

**   For a complete list of publications, refer to my CV.    **

** For copies of published papers, please send email. **

Under Revision

• "Imposing Monotonicity Nonparametrically in First-Price Auctions," with Daniel J. Henderson, John A. List, Christopher F. Parmeter, Michael Price.  Journal of Econometrics.  [pdf]

• "Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some?," with Le Wang.  Economic Development & Cultural Change.  [pdf]

Works In Progress (comments appreciated)

• Environment

  • "Do National Borders Matter? Intranational Trade, International Trade, and the Environment," with Carol McAusland.  [pdf]

  • "Assessing the Pollution Haven Hypothesis in an Interdependent World," with David Drukker.  [pdf]

  • "Subnational Trade Flows and State-Level Energy Intensity," with Pandej Chintrakarn.  [pdf]

  • "The Robustness of Parametric Estimates of Pollution Abatement Costs on Manufacturing Plant Births Across U.S. States," with Jeffrey S. Racine.  [pdf]

  • "Inferring Treatment Status When Treatment Assignment is Unknown: Detecting Collusion in Timber Auctions," with John A. List and Michael K. Price.  [pdf]

  • "Bureaucratic Corruption and Environmental Policy: Theory and Evidence from the United States," with Per G. Fredriksson. [pdf]

• Trade

  • "Reassessing the Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties on US FDI Activity," with Abdullah Kumas.  [pdf]

• Schooling

  • "Time to Misbehave?" with Ozkan Eren. [pdf]

  • "Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program," with Rusty Tchernis.  [pdf]

    • Previous version circulated as "Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators when Unconfoundedness Fails."  [IZA DP3632]

• Applied Microeconometrics

  • "The Economic Consequences of  Electoral Accountability Revisited," with Daniel M. Sturm and John A. List.  [pdf]

  • "Bounding the Impact of Market Experience on Rationality: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Imperfect Compliance," with John A. List.  [pdf]

  • "Copyright Impacts on Relative Firm Sales: Evidence from the National Football League," with Daniel J. Slottje and Michael J. Buchanan. [pdf]

  • "Estimating Coherent Demand Systems with Many Binding Non-Negativity Constraints," with Mark M. Pitt,  Brown University Department of Economics WP 1999-04.  [pdf]

Unpublished Files Referenced in Published Work

• "The Mythical 'Boy Crisis'?" with M.H. Husain.  Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28, 38-48.  [Appendix]

• "It's All in the Timing: Assessing the Impact of Bilateral Tax Treaties on US FDI Activity," with A. Kumas, in L. Sachs and K.P. Sauvant (eds.),  The Effect of BITs and DTTs on FDI Flows, Oxford University Press, 2008.  [Appendix]

• "Is Gravity Linear?," with D.J. Henderson.  Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23, 137-172.  [Appendix B] [Appendix C]

• "Pollution Abatement Costs and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to U.S. States: A Nonparametric Reassessment," with D.J. Henderson.  Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89, 178-183.  [additional results]

• "Strategic Competition Amongst Public Schools," with V. Rangaprasad.  Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37, 199-219.  [additional results]

• "Robust Inference Concerning Recent Trends in U.S. Environmental Quality," with E. Maasoumi.  Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20, 55-77.  [longer version]

• “Environmental Abatement Costs and Establishment Size.”  Contemporary Economic Policy, 2003, 21, 281-296.  [additional results]

•  “Corruption, Environmental Policy, and FDI: Theory and Evidence from the United States,” with P.G. Fredriksson and J.A. List. Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87, 1407-1430.  [additional results]