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Publications

• Food sales taxes and employment. Journal of Regional Science forthcoming. (with Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley and Jeffrey P. Thompson)
  
  
• Local Sales Taxes, Employment, and Tax Competition”. Regional Science and Urban Economics Volume 70, May 2018, Pages 373-383. (with Jeffrey P. Thompson)
  
  
• How Dark Is Dark? Bright Lights, Big City, Racial Profiling. Review of Economics and Statistics May 2016, Vol. 98, No. 2, Pages 226-232. (with William C. Horrace)
  
  
• The Spillover Effects of United States Foreign Trade Zones Applied Economics 2016. (with Sucharita Ghosh and C. Lockwood Reynolds)
  
  
• Does Bankruptcy Law Affect Business Turnover? Evidence from New and Existing Business. Economic Inquiry Vol. 54, Issue 1, January 2016, pp: 361-374.(with Amanda Ross)
  
  
• The Effects of Location-based Tax Policies on the Distribution of Household Income: Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program. Journal of Urban Economics 88, 2015, pp. 1-15. (with C. Lockwood Reynolds)
  
  
• Tax avoidance and business location in a state border model. Journal of Urban Economics 83, 2014, pp. 34-49. (with Stuart Rosenthal and Amanda Ross)
  
  
• The Impact of Import-related Displacement on Local Business Activity. Regional Science and Urban Economics 48, 2014, pp. 94-109. (with Jooyoun Park and C. Lockwood Reynolds)
  
  
• The Effect of Location Based Tax Incentives on Quality of Life and Quality of Business Life. Journal of Regional Science Vol. 54, No. 1, 2014, pp. 1-32. (with C. Lockwood Reynolds) [lead article]
  
  
• How does Bankruptcy Law Impact the Elderly and their Housing Decisions? Journal of Law and Economics May 2013: Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 417-451. (with Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley)
  
  
• Do Spatially Targeted Redevelopment Programs Spillover? Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 2013: issue 1, 86-100. (with Andrew Hanson)
  
  
• The Effect of Sales Taxes on Employment: New Evidence from Cross-Border Panel Data Analysis National Tax Journal December 2012: 1023-1042. (with Jeffery P. Thompson)
  
  
• Do Location-Based Tax Incentives Attract New Business Establishments? Journal of Regional Science 51 2011: 427-449. (with Andrew Hanson) [lead article]
  
  
• State Minimum Wage Rates and Business Location: Evidence from a Border Approach Journal of Urban Economics 69:1 2011: 103-117.
  
  
• The Effect of Location Based Tax Incentives on Establishment Location and Employment: Is there a Differential Impact across Industry Sectors? Public Finance Review March 2011 vol. 39 no. 2 195-225. (with Andrew Hanson) [lead article] Winner of the Most Outstanding Paper Award for 2011 in PFR
  
  

Working Papers

• Police Officer Experience, Learning and Bias in Traffic Stops” (with William Horrace and Hyunseok Jung)(submitted)
  
  
• Labor Unions and Occupational Safety” (with Ling Li and Perry Singleton)
  
  
• Do Spatially Targeted Redevelopment Incentives Work? The Answer Depends on How You Ask the Question” (with Andrew Hanson)
  
  
• Labor Unions and Occupational Safety” (with Ling Li and Perry Singleton)
  
  
• How do Businesses Respond to Capped-wage Subsides? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program” (with Joel Elvery and C. Lockwood Reynolds)
  
  
• Mandate-based Health Care Reform and Business Activity: Evidence from Massachusetts” (with Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley)
  
  
• The Effect of Property Taxes on Businesses: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Approach” (with Ali Enami and C. Lockwood Reynolds)