Articles:
“Survive Then Thrive: Determining Success in the Economics Ph.D. Program,” Economic Inquiry, forthcoming, with Donald H. Dutkowsky and Andrew Grodner.
“The Search for Ph.D. Talent: Doctoral Completion and Research Productivity of Economists,” American Economic Review, forthcoming, 2007, with Stephen Wu.
“Incentives and Learning? A Natural Experiment with Economics Problem Sets,” American Economic Review, 2006, with Tim Wasserman.
“Choosing a Proxy for Academic Aptitude,” Journal of Economic Education, 2006, with Tim Wasserman and Andrew Grodner.
“Labor Markets, Regional Diversity, and Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the Post-WWII U.S.,” Social Science History, 2005, with Craig Heinicke.
“The Life-Cycle Pattern of Collegiate GPA: Longitudinal Cohort Analysis and Grade Inflation,” Journal of Economic Education, 2004, with Tim Wasserman.
“Better or Worse Opportunities?: The Demise of Cotton Harvest Labor, 1949-64,” Journal of Economic History, 2003, with Craig Heinicke.
“The Economics of Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the United States, 1920-1970,” Journal of Economic History, 2002, 62:2 (June), 545-549.
"Why Do Banks Fail? Evidence from the 1920s," Explorations in Economic History, 1994, with Lee Alston and David Wheelock.
Working Papers:
“’Machinery Has Completely Taken Over’: The Diffusion of the Mechanical Cotton Picker, 1949-1964,” with Craig Heinicke.
Work in Progress
“Best Proxies for Latent Academic Aptitude,” with Tim Wasserman and Andrew Grodner.
“Aggregation Bias and Estimates of Student Learning,” with Tim Wasserman.
"Farmer's Technology Choices: Texas Strippers or Picking Machines, 1947-1964," with Craig Heinicke.
“The Logic of the Southern Tenant Plantation in the Twentieth Century: Weather and Regional Labor Market Arrangement in U.S. Cotton Production: 1900-1945.”