Papers available on-line:

“Negative Publicity and Catholic Schools,” with Rey Hernández, Economic Inquiry, accepted March 2010.

“More Choice, Less Crime,” with Rey Hernández, Education Finance and Policy, accepted March 2010.

“Social Host Liability and Under-aged Drunk-driving Accidents” Journal of Health Economics, 29(2), March 2010, 241-249.

“A Comparative Look at Private and Public Schools’ Class Size Determinants,” with Sean E. Mulholland, Education Economics, forthcoming.

“Teacher Attitudes and Teacher Knowledge in Economic Education,” with Dennis Placone, Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, 9(3), 2008, 15-28.

“What do Economists Know about Crime?” with Jeff Miron and Garrett Summers, in Crime, Institutions, and Policies, Sebastian Edwards, Rafael Di Tella, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming. Also NBER WP#13759, January 2008.

“Course Scheduling and Academic Performance,” with Rey Hernández, Economics of Education Review, December 2008, 27, 646-654. Discussed in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, Today’s News, “Late to Rise Seems to Make Students Wise,” by David Glenn (http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/12/8694n.htm). Discussed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, December 29, 2008, “Sleepy youths have science on side,” by Maureen Downey (http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/stories/2008/12/29/learned.html).

“Transfer College Quality and Student Performance,” with Rey Hernández, Eastern Economic Journal, 34(2), April 2008, 172-189. Also, CHERI working paper #98 and discussed on Inside Higher Education (http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/12/04/outcome)

“The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Drunkenness Arrests,” with Mireille Jacobson and Jeffrey A. Miron, Economics Letters, February 2005, 86(2), 279-294. Reprinted in John H. Cawley and Donald S. Kenkel, eds., The Economics of Health Behaviours, June 2008.

“Does Cream-Skimming Curdle the Milk?  A Study of Peer Effects,” Economics of Education Review, February 2005, 19-28.

“Do Parents Value Changes in Test Scores?  High Stakes Testing in Texas,” Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 3: No. 1, Article 10, 2004.

“Alcohol Prohibition and Cirrhosis,” with Jeffrey Miron, American Law and Economics Review, Fall 2004, Vol. 6(2), 285-318.  Also NBER WP#9681, May 2003.

Working papers available on-line:

“The Peculiarities of Public and Private Production: Within School Sorting of Pupils,” with Sean Mulholland

“A Comment on the Donohue and Levitt (2006) Reply to Foote and Goetz (2005),” with Jeff Miron, manuscript, 2006.