Lowe Institute Working Papers
2026-27 Faculty Student Research - Current Projects
Weiliang Tan
The Geographic Lifecycle of Technology Creation
Dede Long, Harvey Mudd College
The Health Effects of Open-Air Trash Burning: Evidence from Brazil
Emiliano Huet-Vaugn, Pomona College
Electoral Consequences of Government Redistribution
Richard Burdekin
London Stock Market Reactions to the American Civil War, 1861-1865
Yong Kim
Estimating the Responsiveness of Healthcare Demand to NHS Wait Times
2025-26 Faculty Student Research
Ioannis Evrigenis
The Early Modern Political Economy of Security
Daniel Velasquez
The Short- and Long-run Commuting Elasticities: Dynamic Gains of Commuting Infrastructure
Ben Gillen
Predictability of Optimal Portfolio Weights
Tomoe Kanaya
Visual Scanning Patterns in the Cross Race Effect: Implications for Political Economy
Peter Kelly and Sharda Umanath
Home Sweet Memories
Yong Kim
The Rent-Price Ratio and the Rate of Home Ownership
Lisa Koch
Atoms and Attitudes: Outcomes from Teaching About Nuclear Weapons in International Politics
Jessamyn Schaller
Dynamics of Home and Institutional Care Following Dementia Diagnosis
Summer 2025
Richard Burdekin
Turning Points in the American Civil War: New Evidence from the Canadian Stock Market, 1861-1865
Daniel Firoozi
Rational Inattention and the Size of Government
Jennifer Feitosa
Legitimacy, Backlash, and the Instability of Corporate DEI
Emiliano Huet Vaughn, Pomona College
Ranked-Choice Voting Reduces Negative Sentiment in Politician Rhetoric
Angela Vossmeyer
Stigma and Spillovers in Emergency Lending: A Bayesian Quantile Regression Approach for Censored Longitudinal Data
William Lincoln
H1-B Visas and Foreign Sales
2024-25 Faculty-Student Research
Emily Pears
Creating State Communities: State Identity, Polarization and Social Reciprocity
Cameron Shelton
Partisan Consumers
William Lincoln
Ambassadorial Vacancies and U.S. Trade
Karla Paola Cardova
Immigration Enforcement and Child Maltreatment: Evidence from Secure Communities
Peter Kelly
Financial Deception: A Deeper Cut than Simple Loss?
Laura Grant
Jurisdictional Failures and the Role of Nonprofits in Externality Regulation
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
Does Information on Past Choices Affect Diversity in Hiring and Promotions? A Field Experiment with Hiring Managers at a Major Global Manufacturing Firm
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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