Lowe Institute Working Papers

2023-24 Faculty-Student Research – Current Projects

Jeff Flory
"Signaling Race: Causes and Effects of Race-Switching in Brazilian Elections"

Fernando Lozano
“Industry clusters, immigration, and entrepreneurship” 

Sarah Robinson
“Understanding the Economic Incidence of Taxation”

Jessamyn Schaller
"Health Insurance Coverage for Displaced Workers Before and After the Affordable Care Act"

2022-23 Faculty-Student Research – Current Projects

Richard Burdekin
"Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Latin American Experience in Perspective" 

Jeff Flory
“Holding Up the Mirror: Race and Gender of Hires at a Fortune 100 Company”

William Lincoln
Trade Policy Effects on US Innovation”

 

2021-22 Faculty-Student Research

David Bjerk
"Does Greater Police Funding Help Catch More Murderers?" (Download PDF)

Tomoe Kanaya
"Comparing Adulthood Outcomes of Students in Special Education Services across Two Time Points using Propensity Score Analyses" (under review)

William Lincoln
“Smooth Lobbying” 

Jessamyn Schaller
"Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women’s Labor Supply"  (Download PDF)

 

2020-21 Faculty-Student Research

Richard Burdekin
"Relative Stock Market Performance during the Coronavirus 2 Pandemic: Virus vs. Policy Effects in 80 Countries" (Download PDF)

David Bjerk
"The Long-Term Incarceration Consequences of Coming-of-Age in a Crime Boom" (Download PDF)

William Lincoln
"Returns to Research and Development?" 

Shanna Rose
"State Minimum Wage Laws as a Response to Federal Inaction" (Download PDF)

Jessamyn Schaller
"Do Cyclical Fluctuations in Local Economic Conditions Lead to Changes in Student Achievement on Standardized Tests? Evidence From County Panel Data" (Download PDF)

Cameron Shelton
"Where Does Opportunity Knock? Executives and Distributive Politics" (Download pdf)

Angela Vossmeyer
“How Do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?”

Chelsea Zi Wang
"Logistics of Empire: Governance and Spatial Friction in Ming China, 1368-1644"(Download PDF)

 

2019-20 Faculty-Student Research 

David Bjerk
"The Long-term Incarceration Consequences of Coming-of-Age in a Crime Boom"(Download PDF)

Richard Burdekin
"Relative Stock Market Performance during the Coronavirus Pandemic: Contagion vs. Policy Effects in 80 Countries" (Download PDF)

Matt Delventhal
“The impact of trade on economic development using data on Spain’s imports and exports from the 1849 until the present”

Laura Grant
"Bunching in Residential Electricity Consumption" 

William Lincoln
"Is Lobbying Valuable?" 

Shanna Rose
"State Minimum Wage Laws as a Response to Federal Inaction"

Andrew Sinclair
“Analyzing actions of U.S. Congress and public opinion on legislative oversight of agencies” 

Janet Kiholm Smith
"Bias in the Reporting of Venture Capital Performance: The Disciplinary Role of FOIA"

Angela Vossmeyer
“Specification of Bank Networks and Mergers”

 

2018-19 Faculty-Student Research

Laura Grant
“Uber v BART: Technology shocks to public transit and the policy implications”

Jeffrey Flory
“Does Information on Past Choices Affect Diversity in Hiring and Promotions? A Field Experiment with Hiring Managers at a Major Global Manufacturing Firm”

Emily Pears
“Distributive Nationalism and Internal Improvements”

William Lincoln
“Power Law Lobbying” 

 

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