Research

Publications

1. “Impact of Special Events and Fan-Player Bonding on Identified Fan Consumption – A Study of Professional Soccer in the United States,” (with Diego Gutierrez, Kristie N. Briggs, and James J. Zboja). 2022. Sports Business and Management: An International Journal, 12(4).

2. “Will Columbus Miss the Crew?” (with Frank Stephenson). 2020. New York Economic Review, 51, 16-22.

3. “Expenditure Effects from the 2010 Washington Soda Tax,” (with Adam Hoffer). 2020. Review of Regional Studies, 50, 127-141.

4. “The Impact of Certificate of Need Laws on Emergency Department Wait Times,” (with Molly Myers, Creighton Undergraduate Student). 2020. Journal of Private Enterprise, 35, 59-75.

5. “Service Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth,” (with Kristie Briggs). 2019. Journal of Developing Areas, 53, 101-114.

6. “Was Adam Smith Right About Religious Competition?” (with Peter J. Boettke and Joshua C. Hall). 2016. Forum for Social Economics, 1-10.

7. “It’s a Small World After All: Internet Access and Institutional Quality,” (with Andrew T. Young). 2014. Contemporary Economic Policy 1-19.

8. “Foreign Aid, Institutional Quality, and Growth,” (with Andrew T. Young). 2014. European Journal of Political Economy 36, 195-208.

9. “Vend It Like Beckham: David Beckham’s Effect on MLS Ticket Sales,” (with Robert A. Lawson and E. Frank Stephenson). 2008. International Journal of Sport Finance 3(4), 189-195.

Book Chapter

1. “Gender, Race, and Earnings: The Divergent Effect of Occupational Licensing on the Distribution of Earnings and Access to the Economy,” (with Diana Thomas). (2020) Regulation and Economic Opportunity: Blueprints for Reform. Center for Growth and Opportunity.

Works in Progress

• 1. “Gender, Property Rights and Economic Growth: Including Women’s Rights in Studies of Growth” (with Colin O’Reilly) 

  2. “Women’s Economic Freedom, Factors of Production, and Economic Growth” (with Colin O’Reilly)

  3. “Women’s Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship” (with Colin O’Reilly) 

  4. “Women Empowerment: Globalization and its Effects on Women’s Rights” (with Taylor Rowland, Creighton undergraduate student)

  5. “Municipal Bonds, Wildfire Risk, and Cost of Issuing: Is the Market Pricing Climate Risk?” (with Melissa Woodley)

  6. “The Impact of Drug-Induced Homicide Laws on Unintentional Drug Overdose Rates” (with Audrey Redford and Angela Dills)

  7. "Phony Federalism: Fiscal Decentralization Under a Centralized Constitution" (with George R. Crowley)