Working Papers
Published Papers
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, 2013, 56-70.

Published Chapters

Corporations and Organizations in the United States after 1840 with John Joseph Wallis. Corporations and American Democracy, Harvard University Press, 2017.

Book Review
Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929. By Ajay K. Mehrotra. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. The Journal of Economic History, 75(3), 2015, 939-941.

Working Papers

The Impact of Decentralization on Municipalities, June 2018.
The poster as a writing assignment, May 2018.

Work in Progress
Earned Income Tax Credit and Volunteer Tax Assistance.
The School District as a Corporate Body: An Evolution of Organizational Form.