Research

The Death of Labor Market Competition has been Greatly Exaggerated.  Journal of Private Enterprise 38 (Number 2, Summer), 2023: pp. 39-54.

Dodging a Draft: Gary Bcker’s Lost Paper on Conscription (with Mike Gibbs), May 2021. Published as “Economics,” Chapter 3, pp. 36-54 in The All-Volunteer Force: Fifty Years of History, Impacts, Challenges, and Implications. Edited by William A. Taylor, University of Kansas Press, 2023.

When to Deploy? The Proximity Fuse in World War Two, working paper, March 2023.

Administrators vs. the Faculty: Promotion, Tenure, and Hiring Decisions, working paper, March 2023.

Gary Becker’s Neglected Early Research on Training on the Job, working paper, September 2022.

The Allocation of Power in Organizations, working paper, April 2022.

We Only Kill Each Other, working paper, September 2019.

Signaling and Optimal Sorting, Journal of Economics, Volume 126, Issue 2, March 2019, pp.135-151.

Economists Behaving Badly: Publications in Predatory Journals (with Frederick Wallace), Scientometrics, Volume 113, Issue 2, May 2018, pp.749-766.

Economics of Evaluation (with Special Reference to Promotion and Tenure Committees), Economics of Governance, Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2018, pp.1-19.

Online Education, Signaling, and Human Capital,  Information Economics and Policy, Volume 36, September 2016, pp.69-74.

Lemons and Loons, Review  of Behavioral Economics. Vol. 3, No, 2, pp.173-188. 2016.

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