The Economics faculty are dedicated teacher-scholars who believe that active engagement in research is critical to informed teaching. The department is ranked among the top 15 liberal arts schools for economics research (RePEc). Below are selected recent publications and working papers by department faculty.

Publications:

Bird, Samuel S., and Aleksandr Michuda. “Ethnic diversity and voting behavior at scale: Evidence from Uganda.” World Development 196 (2025): 107181.

Janus, Thorsten, and Daniel Riera-Crichton. “Asymmetric Effects of Positive and Negative Commodity Price Shocks During Civil Wars.” Defence and Peace Economics 35, no. 5 (2024): 622-637.

Chen, Liang, and Eugene Choo. “Identification and parametric estimation of empirical dynamic marriage matching models.” The Economic Journal 133, no. 651 (2023): 1005-1035.

Frick, Sarah J., Deborah Fletcher, and Austin C. Smith. “Pirate and chill: The effect of netflix on illegal streaming.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 209 (2023): 334-347.

Goff, Sandra H., John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Alex Reents, and Patrick Wade. “Support for bigger government: The principle‐implementation gap and COVID‐19.” Contemporary Economic Policy 41, no. 2 (2023): 243-261.

Bird, Samuel S., Michael R. Carter, Travis J. Lybbert, Mary Mathenge, Timothy Njagi, and Emilia Tjernström. “Filling a niche? The maize productivity impacts of adaptive breeding by a local seed company in Kenya.” Journal of Development Economics 157 (2022): 102885.

Lindsay, Amanda R. “Nutritional implications of international fishing and trade.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 26 (2022): e2206587119.

He, Leshui, Imke Reimers, and Benjamin Shiller. “Does Amazon Exercise Its Market Power? Evidence from Toys “R” Us.” The Journal of Law and Economics 65, no. 4 (2022): 665-685.

Sen, Anamika, Curtis Atkisson, and Charlie Schweik. “Cui bono: Do open source software incubator policies and procedures benefit the projects or the incubator?.” International Journal of the Commons 16, no. 1 (2022).

Camarena, Jose A., Luciana Galeano, Luis Morano, Jorge Puig, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos Vegh, Lucila Venturi, and Guillermo Vuletin. “Fooled by the cycle: Permanent versus cyclical improvements in social indicators.” Journal of International Money and Finance 127 (2022): 102670.

Janus, Thorsten, Daniel Riera‐Crichton, and Brittany Tarufelli. “Commodity terms of trade shocks and political transitions.” Economics & Politics (2022).

Even, William E., and Austin C. Smith. “Greek life, academics, and earnings.” Journal of Human Resources 57, no. 3 (2022): 998-1032.

Cadena, Brian C., and Austin C. Smith. “Performance pay, productivity, and strategic opt-out: Evidence from a community health center.” Journal of Public Economics 206 (2022): 104580.

Bowblis, John R., and Austin C. Smith. “Occupational licensing of social services and nursing home quality: A regression discontinuity approach.” ILR Review 74, no. 1 (2021): 199-223.

Gunter, Samara, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos A. Vegh, and Guillermo Vuletin. “Non-linear effects of tax changes on output: The role of the initial level of taxation.” Journal of International Economics 131 (2021): 103450.

Ifcher, John, Homa Zarghamee, and Sandra H. Goff. “Happiness in the Lab: What Can Be Learned about Subjective Well-Being from Experiments?.” In Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, pp. 1-27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021.

Goff, Sandra H. “A test of willingness to pay as penance in the demand for ethical consumption.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 94 (2021): 101744.

Goff, Sandra H., Caroline L. Noblet, and J. Ross Anthony. “Economic Valuation as a Communication Device for Environmental Philanthropy: Evidence from the Lab and Field.” Land Economics 97, no. 3 (2021): 588-607.

He, Leshui, Wen Zhou, Ming He, Xuanhua Nie, and Jun He. “Openness and COVID-19 induced xenophobia: The roles of trade and migration in sustainable development.” PloS one 16, no. 4 (2021): e0249579.

Lindsay, Amanda R., James N. Sanchirico, Ted E. Gilliland, Rohani Ambo-Rappe, J. Edward Taylor, Nils C. Krueck, and Peter J. Mumby. “Evaluating sustainable development policies in rural coastal economies.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 52 (2020): 33170-33176.

He, Leshui. “A theory of pre-filing settlement and patent assertion entities.” International Journal of Industrial Organization 70 (2020): 102618.

Working papers:

Gunter, Samara R., Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos A. Vegh, and Guillermo Vuletin. Policy Implications of Non-linear Effects of Tax Changes on Output. No. w28646. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021.

Bracco, Jessica, Luciana Galeano, Pedro Juarros, Daniel Riera-Crichton, and Guillermo Vuletin. “Social transfer multipliers in developed and emerging countries.” (2021).

Maloney, William F., Daniel Riera-Crichton, Guillermo Raul Beylis, Virgilio Galdo, Elena Ianchovichina, Maria Marta Ferreyra, Luis Diego Rojas Alvarado, Rucheta Singh, and Guillermo Javier Vuletin. “Rebuilding Dynamic Post‐COVID-19 Economies amid Fiscal Constraints: Main Report (Spanish).” (2021).

Izquierdo, Alejandro, Ruy E. Lama, Juan Pablo Medina, Jorge P. Puig, Daniel Riera-Crichton, Carlos A. Vegh, and Guillermo Vuletin. Is the public investment multiplier higher in developing countries? An empirical investigation. No. w26478. National Bureau of Economic Research, (2019).