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Publications

  1. Supermajority Voting Requirements for Tax Increases: Evidence from the States, Journal of Public Economics, 76(1), 2000, pp. 41-67.
  2. Endogenous Federal Grants and Crowd-Out of State Government Spending: Theory and Evidence from the Federal Highway Aid Program, American Economic Review, 92(1), 2002, pp. 71-92.
  3. Parochial Interests and the Centralized Provision of Local Public Goods: Evidence from Congressional Voting on Transportation Projects, Journal of Public Economics 88(3), 2004, pp. 845-866.
  4. Estimating the Value of Proposal Power, American Economic Review, 95(5), 2005, pp. 1639-1652.
  5. Are Policy Platforms Capitalized into Equity Prices? Evidence from the Bush / Gore 2000 Presidential Election, Journal of Public Economics, 90(4-5), 2006, pp. 751-773.
  6. Socially Optimal Districting: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration, (with Stephen Coate), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(4), 2007, pp.1409-1471.
  7. Legislative Representation, Bargaining Power and the Distribution of Federal Funds: Evidence from the U.S. Senate, Economic Journal, 118(532), 2008, pp. 1785-1803.
  8. The Effects of School District Consolidation on Educational Cost and Quality, (with Nora Gordon), Public Finance Review, 36(4), 2008, pp. 408-430.
  9. A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department, (with Kate Antonovics),  Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(1), 2009, pp. 163-177.
  10. A Spatial Merger Estimator with an Application to School District Consolidation, (with Nora Gordon),  Journal of Public Economics, 93(5-6), 2009, pp. 752-765.
  11. Pet Overpopulation: An Economic Analysis, (with Stephen Coate), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 10(1), 2010, (Advances), Article 106.
  12. Momentum and Social Learning in Presidential Primaries, (with Nathan Schiff), Journal of Political Economy, 118(6), 2010, pp. 1110-1150.
  13. Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements, (with Chun-Fang Chiang),  Review of Economic Studies, 78(3), 2011, pp. 795-820.
  14. Government Form and Public Spending: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities, (with Stephen Coate), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 3, 2011, pp. 82-112.
  15. Partisan Control, Media Bias, and Viewer Responses: Evidence from Berlusconi’s Italy, (with Ruben Durante), Journal of the European Economic Association, 3, 2012, pp. 451-481, lead article.
  16. Spatial Competition and Cross-Border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries, (with Nathan Schiff), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 4, 2012, pp. 199-229.
  17. State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5, 2013, pp. 200-229.
  18. On the Selection of Arbitrators, (with Geoffroy de Clippell and Kfir Eliaz), American Economic Review: 104(11), 2014, pp. 3434-3458.
  19. Sequential or Simultaneous Elections? An Empirical Welfare Analysis, (with Patrick Hummell), International Economic Review, 56(3), 2015, pp. 851–887.
  20. Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy,(with Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Durante, and Eliana La Ferrara), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: 8(1), 2016, pp. 224-256.
  21. Homophily, Group Size, and the Diffusion of Political Information in Social Networks: Evidence from Twitter, (with Yosh Halberstam), Journal of Public Economics, 143, 2016, pp. 73-88.
  22. An Econometric Evaluation of Competing Explanations for the Midterm Gap, Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 12(2), 2017, pp. 205-239.
  23. The Out-of-State Tuition Distortion, (with Nathan Schiff), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 11, 2019, pp. 317-350.
  24. The Limits of Propaganda: Evidence from Venezuela, (with Ana Maria Tribin), Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(2), 2019.
  25. Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from News Coverage of Car Safety Recalls, (with Graham Beattie, Ruben Durante, and Ananya Sen), February 2021, Management Science. 67(2): 698–719.
  26. Reducing Frictions in College Admissions: Evidence from the Common Application, (with Nate Schiff), February 2022, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 14(1): 179-206
  27. Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez’s Venezuela (with Ana Maria Tribin), May 2022, World Bank Economic Review. 36(2): 455-487.
  28. Immigration and Violent Crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border (with Ana Tribin), May 2023, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 162.
  29. Crime and Gender Segregation: Evidence from the Bogota “Pico y Genero” Lockdown, (with Maria Mercedes Ponce de Leon and Ana Tribin), NBER working paper 28686, forthcoming at the World Bank Economic Review.
  30. The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act, (with Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa), NBER working paper 27463, forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
  31. Vote early and vote often? Detecting Electoral Fraud from the Timing of 19th Century Elections, (with Francesco Ferlenga), NBER working paper 30393, forthcoming at Journal of Public Economics.