Research
For-Profit vs Nonprofit and Government Ownership
Understanding Nonprofit and Government Ownership: Evidence from Nursing Homes in the COVID-19 Pandemic, R&R at the Journal of Law and Economics
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Income Inequality and Public Choice
Melo, V., & Miller, S. (2022). Estimating the Effect of Rent Seeking on Income Distribution: An Analysis of US States and Counties. Public Choice, 1-16.
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Gasoline Regulation
Self-Service Bans and Gasoline Prices: The Effect of Allowing Consumers to Pump Their Own Gas, Forthcoming at the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
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The Americans with Disabilities Act
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with Disabilities Act and Educational Attainment (with Nicholas Reinarts), Public Choice, 2023
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Proposing an Index of Rent Seeking
Improvements in the Measurement of Rent Seeking: A Synthetic Matching Approach (With Elijah Neilson), Public Choice, 2023
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Causal Effects of Vaccine Mandates
The Effects of Vaccine Mandates on Covid-19 Cases, Deaths, and Vaccine Uptake. (With Dorothy Chebet and Elijah Neilson)
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Political Economy of Healthcare Regulation
Why Are Nursing Homes so Heavily Regulated? The Effects and Political Economy of Certificate-of-Need Laws. (With Elijah Neilson)
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Discrimination in Online Markets
Do Black Sellers Get Fewer Offers and Lower Prices Than White Sellers? Evidence From a Field Experiment. (With Elijah Neilson)
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Nursing Home Isolation Measures
Intended and Unintended Effects of Nursing Home Isolation Measures
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A Field Experiment on Immigration Policies and Discrimination
Xenophobia or Immigration Policies? A Field Experiment on Employment Discrimination of High-Skilled Workers (with S. Michael Gaddis, Liya Palagashvili, Michael D. Farren, and Chris Kaiser)
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Minimum Wage Laws and Discrimination
Minimum Wage Laws and Employment Discrimination: A Field Experiment (with David Neumark, Liya Palagashvili, Chris Kaiser, and Michael D. Farren).
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