Work in Progress

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• “Moonshot:  Public R&D and Economic Growth” (with Alexander Whalley).  Conditionally accepted at American Economic Review.

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• “Outside Options in the Labor Market: Evidence from Vietnam Draft Avoidance” (with Arthur Novaes de Amorim and Alexander Whalley).

 

• “Federal Land Grant Funding and the Role of the States During the Formative Period in American Higher Education”  (with Alexander Whalley)

 

• “Separating the Roles of Church and State in the Ascendancy of American Higher Education, 1900-1940” (with Jared Rubin and Alexander Whalley).

 

• “The New Deal and the Diffusion of Tractors in the 1930s” (with Price V. Fishback and Paul Rhode). 

 

• “Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention:  New Deal Grants and Migration, 1935-1940” (with Todd Sorensen, Price Fishback, and Samuel Allen). National Bureau of Economic Research working paper 13491.