Research
Publications
"Revisiting Quebec's Quiet Revolution: A Synthetic Control Analysis", with V. Geloso, accepted at Canadian Journal of Economics
"The Political Economy of Military Base Redevelopment", 2024, with C. Coyne, Eastern Economic JournalÂ
"War and Presidential Greatness: Updating Henderson and Gochenour's Results", with V. Geloso, accepted at The Independent Review
"The Political Economy of Rising Defense Costs in the United States", forthcoming The Independent Review
"Can Markets Improve Recycling Performance? A Cross-Country Regression Analysis and Case Studies", 2023, with E. Prenovitz and P. Hazlett, Sustainability, 15(6): 4785.
"University Affiliated Research Centers: Evasive Entrepreneurship within the Department of Defense", forthcoming Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy"
"Bureaucratic Rent Creation: The Case of Price Discrimination in the Market for Postsecondary Education", 2023, with P. Hazlett, Constitutional Political Economy, 34(2).
Working papers
"You Work For Us Now: Concentration in University-performed Defense R&D" (R&R at Defence and Peace Economics)
"Are Historians Increasingly Illiberal?" (with V. Geloso)
"From Trade to Raid: Institutions and Anglo-Abenaki Relations in 17th Century Maine" (with N. Smith)
Works in Progress
"Respect the Troops: A Theory of Social Praise" (with G. Caskey and P. Leeson)
"Output Maximizing Bureaucrat and a Theory of Nationalization" (with A. Nowrasteh and V. Geloso)
"A War-Adjusted National Accounting of US GDP, 1790-2020 and its Implications" (with V. Geloso)
"Too Afraid to Play: Forfeiting in American Junior Tennis" (with P. Hazlett and R. Sardana)