Lowe Institute Working Papers

2025-26 Faculty Student Research - Current Projects 

 

2024-25 Faculty-Student Research 

Emily Pears 
Creating State Communities: State Identity, Polarization and Social Reciprocity

Josh Rosett 
Exporting CPAs:  The Effects of the 150 Hour Requirement on CPA Candidates and Cross-State Mobility of Candidates

Cameron Shelton 
Household Consumption Responses to Election Results

William Lincoln 
The consequences of vacant ambassadorships on US international relations

Karla Paola Cardova 
Immigration Enforcement and Child Maltreatment:  Evidence from Secure Communities

Sharda Umanath 
The Monetary and Symbolic Value of Nationally Important Collective Memories

Peter Kelly 
Do people have an aversion to being defrauded (above and beyond any costs from losing the investment)?

Laura Grant
Do Environmental Groups Reduce Transboundary Pollution Spillovers?

Julio Garin
Mobilization and Polarization
 

2023-24 Faculty-Student Research 

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

Fernando Lozano
A Technical Note to Impute Workers’ Industry Clusters Using Publicly Available Microdata

Sarah Robinson
Understanding the Economic Incidence of Taxation

 

2022-23 Faculty-Student Research

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
Nafta and 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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