Sequencing institutional development: The modernization hypothesis reconsidered
With Ryan Murphy — Journal of Comparative Economics, Forthcoming

A Practical Measure of Red Tape
With Dustin Chambers — Regulation and Governance, Forthcoming

The Legal Protection of Women's Property Rights, Factors of Production, and Economic Growth
With Kathleen Sheehan — Economics Letters, 255, 2025

Women's Property Rights Equality and Entrepreneurial Activity
With Kathleen Sheehan — Contemporary Economic Policy, 43(4): 621-637, 2025

The Dynamics of Non-Intervention: Applying the Dynamic Common Correlated Effects Estimator to State-Level Economic Freedom
With Ryan Murphy — Applied Economics, 57(15): 8612-8626, 2025

Contestable Monopolies on Violence: Polycentricity, Rebel Groups, and Institutional Quality
With Ryan Murphy — Civil Wars, 72(2), 2025

Governance in the Aftermath of Violent Internal Conflict
The Independent Review, Winter 2024/2025

In the Name of Mazu: The Effect of Foreign Electoral Intervention on Taiwan through Religion
With Chien-Yuan Shera, Chung-Pei Pien, Yu-Hsi Liu — Foreign Policy Analysis, 20(3), 2024

The Expansive Corridor: Testing Acemoglu and Robinson (2019)
With Ryan Murphy — Journal of Development Studies, 49(7): 1060–1075, 2023

Freedom Through Taxation: The Effect of Fiscal Capacity on the Rule of Law
With Ryan Murphy — European Journal of Law and Economics, 56: 69–90, 2023

Violent Conflict and the Strength of Civil Society
International Journal of Development and Conflict, 13: 57–73, 2023

The Economic Theory of Regulation and Inequality
With Dustin Chambers — Public Choice, 198: 63–78, 2022

An Index Measuring State Capacity, 1789–2018
With Ryan H. Murphy — Economica, 89(355): 713–745, 2022  ·  SSRN

Barriers to Entry, Entrepreneurship, and Income Inequality within the USA
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 11(4): 332–356, 2022

Regulation and Income Inequality in the United States
With Dustin Chambers — European Journal of Political Economy, 72, 2022

Tax Policy and Charitable Giving: An Evaluation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
With Scott Haveman — Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 36(2): 189–207, 2021

Violent Conflict and Institutional Change
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 29(2): 257–317, 2021

Financial Regulation and Income Inequality
With G.P. Manish — Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting, 58(3), 2020

Assessing State Capacity Libertarianism
With Ryan H. Murphy — Cato Journal, Fall 2020

The Champions of Capitalism? National Leaders and the Institutional Channel
With Ryan H. Murphy — Applied Economics Letters, 27(8): 647–650, 2020

Applying Panel Vector Autoregression to Institutions, Human Capital, and Output
With Ryan Murphy — Empirical Economics, 57: 1633–1652, 2019

Entry Regulations and Income Inequality at the Regional Level
With Dustin Chambers — Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, 49(1): 31–39, 2019

And the IMF Said, Let There Be Data: Private Capital Stocks in the Eastern Bloc
With Ryan H. Murphy — Econ Journal Watch, 15(3): 290–300, 2018

Post-Genocide Justice: The Gacaca Courts
With Yi Zhang — Development Policy Review, 36(5): 561–576, 2018

Do Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Resource Conflicts?
With Ryan Murphy — Contemporary Economic Policy, 35(3): 532–541, 2017

Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom
With Ryan Murphy — Comparative Economic Studies, 59(3): 243–260, 2017

Civil War and Economic Growth: The Case for a Closer Look at Forms of Mobilization
With Arnab Biswas, James T. Bang, Aniruddha Mitra — Applied Economics Letters, 23(15): 1057–1061, 2016

War and the Growth of Government
With Benjamin Powell — European Journal of Political Economy, 40: 31–41, 2015

Household Recovery from Internal Displacement in Northern Uganda
World Development, 72: 203–215, 2015

Firm Investment Decisions in the Post-Conflict Context
The Economics of Transition, 23(4): 717–751, 2015

Institutions and Investment in Post-Civil War Recovery
Comparative Economic Studies, 56(1): 1–24, 2014

Human Freedom and Life Satisfaction
With Ryan Murphy

Policy “Readability”: an Application to Price Controls
With Vincent Carret

Gender, Property Rights and Economic Growth: Including Women’s Rights in Studies of Growth
With Kate Sheehan

Selecting on the Dependent Variable and the Average Treatment Effect of Decentralized Institutions
With Ryan Murphy

Freedom of Association for the Dimensions of Economic Freedom
With Ryan Murphy

The Regressive Effects of Regulation — 2022
With Dustin Chambers — The Mercatus Center

The Regressive Effects of Regulation — 2021
With Dustin Chambers — The Mercatus Center

Integrating the Economic Way of Thinking into US History Courses
With Scott Neiderjohn — In Teaching Economics, eds. J. Hall and K. Lawson. Springer, 2019

Review of Market Rules by Mark H. Rose
The Independent Review, 24(2), Winter 2019/20