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Education and Income of the States of the United States: 1840-2000

(with Scott L. Baier, Robert Tamura, and Chad Turner), Journal of Economic Growth, 2007. vol. 12(2). 101-158

                                  Education and Income Data: STATA

                      Education and Income Data: Excel

Land Trusts: The Growth of the Non-Profit Land Conservancy Movement

(in Incentives and Conservation: The Next Generation of Environmentalists, edited by Daniel K. Benjamin. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.)

Research Under Review

The Peculiarities of Public and Private Production: Within School Sorting of Pupils

(with Angela K. Dills)

How Important are Human Capital. Physical Capital, and Total Factor Productivity for Determining Economic Growth in the United States, 1840 - 2000

           (with Robert Tamura, and Chad Turner)

Current Research

In Search of State Productivity Differences: the Importance of Black — White Schooling Differences from 1840 to 2000

           (with Robert Tamura, and Chad Turner)

Hate Fuel: On the Relationship Between Local Government Policy and Hate Group Activity

The Importance of Education and Race  in Determining the Migratory Response to Economic Freedom

           (with Reynaldo Hernandez-Julian)

On the Economies of Scale of Private Land Conservation

Do Independent Redistricting Commissions Reduce Congressional Partisanship?

           (with David G. Oedel, Allen K. Lynch, and Neil T. Edwards  (forthcoming: Villanova Law Review, Volume 54)

The Faculty Flutie Factor: Does Athletic Performance Affect a University’s US News and World Report Peer Assessment Score?

           (with Aleksandar (Sasha) Tomic and  Samuel N. Sholander)

Selective Migration and Economic Freedom

           (with Reynaldo Hernandez-Julian)