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Publications
1.Trigger Warning: The Causal Impact of Gun Ownership on Suicide joint w/ Alexander McQuoid and students.
Applied Economics Vol. 50, Issue 53, pp. 5747-5765,
Working paper version of "Trigger Warning: The Causal Impact of Gun Ownership on Suicide" on ResearchGate
2. Estimating the impact of e-commerce on retail exit and entry using Google Trends
Economics Bulletin, Vol. 40, Issue 1, pp 679-688
3. Estimating the Impact of Shuttle Launches on Regional Economic Activity
Space Policy, Vol. 46, Issue 1, pp. 1-8
Preprint version of "Estimating the Impact of Shuttle Launches on Regional Economic Activity " on ResearchGate
4. Does fiat-to-Bitcoin exchange activity lead to increased user-to-user Bitcoin transaction activity?
Academy of Economics and Finance Journal, 2017 Vol. 8 p. 71 - 76
and also in the Applied Economics Research Bulletin Peer-Reviewed Working Paper Series
Preprint version of "Does fiat-to-Bitcoin exchange activity lead to increased user-to-user Bitcoin transaction activity?" on ResearchGate
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1. Public Safety, Private Harm: The Impact of Police Militarization on Mortality
joint w/ Alexander McQuoid
Revision requested, Health Economics
Abstract: We quantify the impact of transferring productivity-enhancing military surplus equipment to law enforcement on suicide and mortality in the United States. Our strategy relies on federal budget allocations to military within a state to instrument for the value of equipment transferred to law enforcement within the state. We find evidence that the average state-level annual transfer of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies (about $2 million) reduces suicide rates by 0.28 standard deviations. The majority of the reduction in suicide rates stems from a reduction in firearm suicide rates, suggesting more effective police forces reduce the need for households to secure their own property with firearms. For robustness, we show our results do not change in consideration of alternative instruments, are robust to concerns about timing of transfers and simultaneity, and that our strategy does not spuriously explain mortality from causes of death unrelated to public safety.
Draft of "Public Safety, Private Harm: The Impact of Police Militarization on Mortality" on ResearchGate
Publications
1.Trigger Warning: The Causal Impact of Gun Ownership on Suicide joint w/ Alexander McQuoid and students.
Applied Economics Vol. 50, Issue 53, pp. 5747-5765,
Working paper version of "Trigger Warning: The Causal Impact of Gun Ownership on Suicide" on ResearchGate
2. Estimating the impact of e-commerce on retail exit and entry using Google Trends
Economics Bulletin, Vol. 40, Issue 1, pp 679-688
3. Estimating the Impact of Shuttle Launches on Regional Economic Activity
Space Policy, Vol. 46, Issue 1, pp. 1-8
Preprint version of "Estimating the Impact of Shuttle Launches on Regional Economic Activity " on ResearchGate
4. Does fiat-to-Bitcoin exchange activity lead to increased user-to-user Bitcoin transaction activity?
Academy of Economics and Finance Journal, 2017 Vol. 8 p. 71 - 76
and also in the Applied Economics Research Bulletin Peer-Reviewed Working Paper Series
Preprint version of "Does fiat-to-Bitcoin exchange activity lead to increased user-to-user Bitcoin transaction activity?" on ResearchGate
Select Working Papers
1. Public Safety, Private Harm: The Impact of Police Militarization on Mortality
joint w/ Alexander McQuoid
Revision requested, Health Economics
Abstract: We quantify the impact of transferring productivity-enhancing military surplus equipment to law enforcement on suicide and mortality in the United States. Our strategy relies on federal budget allocations to military within a state to instrument for the value of equipment transferred to law enforcement within the state. We find evidence that the average state-level annual transfer of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies (about $2 million) reduces suicide rates by 0.28 standard deviations. The majority of the reduction in suicide rates stems from a reduction in firearm suicide rates, suggesting more effective police forces reduce the need for households to secure their own property with firearms. For robustness, we show our results do not change in consideration of alternative instruments, are robust to concerns about timing of transfers and simultaneity, and that our strategy does not spuriously explain mortality from causes of death unrelated to public safety.
Draft of "Public Safety, Private Harm: The Impact of Police Militarization on Mortality" on ResearchGate
