Publications

(2023) Are Schools in Prison  Worth It? The Effects of and Economic Returns to Prison Education (w/ Ben                Stickle). American Journal of Criminal Justice.
(2023) The U.S. Postal Savings Banks System and the Collapse of B&Ls During the Great Depression (w/ Matthew           Jaremski and Sebastian Fleitas). Southern Economic Journal. 89(4), 1196-1215.
(2023) The Persuasive Power of the Fourth Estate: ​Estimating the Effect of Newspaper Endorsements 1960-1980 
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 207, 496-510
(2020) Does Campaign Spending Affect Election Outcomes? New Evidence from Transaction-Level Disbursement Data.
  Journal of Politics. 82(4), 1502-1515
​(2020) An Empirical History of the United States Postal Savings System (w/ Matthew Jaremski and Elisabeth Ruth Perlman). ​  Social Science History. 44(4),  667 - 696
(2016) Delivering the Vote: The Political Effect of Free Mail Delivery (w/ Elisabeth Ruth Perlman). Journal of Economic    History. 76(3), 769-802
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 Working Papers

-Deposit Insurance, Uninsured Depositors, and Liquidity Risk During Panics (w/ Matthew Jaremski)
-Did Newspaper Endorsements Affect the Outcome of the 1968 Election? (w/Anna J. Collins)
-Consolidating Votes: The Lingering Effects of Same-day Primaries
-What We are Getting Wrong When We Measure Campaign Spending
-Widows, Congressional Representation, and the (Ms.)Appropriation of a Name (w/ Danielle Lupton and Sahar Parsa)

Other Writing and Media Appearances

(10/19/2024) Interviewed for Can a Billion Dollars Buy an Election? WNYC
(11/20/2023) Education linked to better employment prospects upon release from prison (w/ Ben Stickle).                       The Conversation
(4/24/2023)  Stop The Blitz on Nashville Taxpayers. The Center Square
(1/26/2023) Are Education Programs in Prison Worth It? A meta-analysis of the highest-quality academic research.               Policy brief prepared on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
(9/22/2022)  Ranked-choice voting encourages civil discourse among candidates.  Nashville Business Journal
(11/22/2021) Fewer Elections Could Improve Election Security. Nashville Business Journal
(8/26/2020)  Interviewed for "Postal Banking is a Solution, But to Which Problem?" Bankshot Podcast.  
(5/8/2020)   How Can Biden Win Over the Left? One Answer May Lie at the Post Office. The Fiscal Times