Research

Papers, projects, and working ideas.

Selected publications and ongoing research are organized below.

Sports Economics Scholarship

Core sports economics publications

  • The 12th Man Plays Defense: The Effects of Heterogeneous COVID-19 NFL Stadium Attendance Restrictions
    Journal of Sports Economics (2026)

Additional Research

Selected work outside sports economics

  • What accounts for the US ascendancy to economic superpower by the early twentieth century? The Morrill Act–human capital hypothesis
    Journal of Human Capital (2018)
  • Was higher education a major channel through which the US became an economic superpower in the 20th century?
    Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (2018)
  • Saving lives: the 2006 expansion of daylight saving in Indiana
    Journal of Population Economics (2022)
  • Reducing Crime Through Public Policy: Evidence from the 2006 Expansion of Daylight Saving Time in Indiana
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2025)
  • Optimal tax policy under habit formation and capital utilization
    Journal of Macroeconomics (2013)
  • The education–suicide mortality gradient
    Applied Economics Letters (2019)

Source

Google Scholar profile

Publication list sourced from Google Scholar. This section can be expanded with abstracts and direct links to published versions as needed.

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