PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING
PAPERS
- "Medical Licensing Board Characteristics and Physician
Discipline: An Empirical Analysis." (with Zeynep K. Hansen).
Forthcoming at the Journal of Health
Politics, Policy, and Law. Also available as NBER Working Paper
No. 15140.
- "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. Also
available as SSRN Working Paper No. 823525.
- "The Political Economy of Truth-in-Advertising Regulation
in the Progressive Era" (with Zeynep K. Hansen). Journal of Law and Economics 51 (2)
(May 2008): 251-69. An earlier version 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.
Also available as Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Working Paper
No. 833944.
- "The Strange Budgetary Politics of Agricultural Research
Earmarks." (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 Goldin (eds.). Corruption and Reform: Lessons from
America's Economic History. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2006, pp. 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): 723-756. An earlier version 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
- "Food and Drugs Regulation in the United States."
Forthcoming in Paul J. Quirk and William Cunion (eds.). Governing America: Major Policies and
Decisions of Federal, State, and Local Governments. New York,
NY: Facts on File, 2009/2010.
- "Review of Jan R. McTavish, 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, v. 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.
WORKING PAPERS
- "What do Revolving Door Laws do?
Evidence from Public Utility Commissions." (with Cheryl Long).
WORK IN PROGRESS
- "How Do Regulators' Communicate? The Problem of Credible
Communication between Regulators and Legislators." (with Joseph M.
Tonon).
- "The Rise of Earmarking and its Consequences for
Bureaucratic Autonomy." (with Joseph M. Tonon)
- "The Origins of the U.S. Regulatory State." (with Sukkoo
Kim).
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