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Marc T. Law

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Curriculum Vitae (in pdf format)

PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING PAPERS
  • "What do Revolving Door Laws do?" (with Cheryl Long). Forthcoming in Journal of Law and Economics, May 2012.
  • "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 & Governance, 5 (4) (December 2011): 405-24.
  • "The Rise of the American Regulatory State: A View from the Progressive Era." (with Sukkoo Kim). Forthcoming in David Levi-Faur (ed.) (2011). Handbook of the Politics of Regulation. Edward Elgar.
  • "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. An earlier version is available as NBER Working Paper No. 15140. This paper was also summarized in the November 2009 issue of the NBER Digest.
  • "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." In Paul J. Quirk and William Cunion (eds.) (2011). Governing America: Major Policies and Decisions of Federal, State, and Local Governments: Volume 1. New York, NY: Facts on File., pp. 126-31.
  • "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
  • "Political Institutions, Federalism, and Urban Development: Evidence from the US and Canada." (with Sukkoo Kim).
  • "Certification vs. Licensure: Evidence from Registered and Practical Nurses in the United States, 1950-1970." (with Mindy S. Marks).
WORK IN PROGRESS
  • "The Diffusion of Regulation Across US States." (with Sukkoo Kim).
  • "The Growth of Government: Canada versus the US." (with Sukkoo Kim).
Last updated: February 7, 2012