Research

“Class Matters: Analyzing Mutual Fund Class Structure and Expenses,” with Jonathan Handy and Tom Smythe. The Journal of Wealth Management, 23(3), 2020, 85–97.

“The Adoption of Constitutional Home Rule: A Test of Endogenous Policy Decentralization.” Eastern Economic Journal, 42(3), 2016, 441–463.

“Loss of Control: Legislature Changes and the State–Local Relationship.” Constitutional Political Economy, 25(4), 2014, 407–433.

“Motivating a Productive Discussion of Normative Issues Through Debates.” Journal of Economic Education, 45(3), 2014, 225–239.

“Incentivizing Laboratory Federalism: Can Everyone Participate?,” with Thomas Flood and Caroline Bowman. Public and Municipal Finance, 2(1), 2013, 56–70.

“The Impact of Decentralization on Municipalities: Evidence from the Municipal Home Rule Movement” in Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History: Volume 3, edited by Joshua C. Hall and Marcus Witcher. New York: Springer, 2019.

“Corporations and Organizations in the United States after 1840,” with John J. Wallis. Corporations and the American Democracy, edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and William J. Novak, Harvard University Press, 2017, pp. 74–105.

Review of Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877–1929, by Ajay K. Mehrotra. Journal of Economic History, 75(3), 2015, 939–941.

“The Impact of Volunteer Tax Assistance on EITC Participation and Claims.”

“The Poster as a Writing Assignment.”

The School District as a Corporate Body: An Evolution of Organizational Form.