Published Research

Our faculty and graduate students (*PhD year) regularly publish in top journals.

Find our latest working papers on RePEc.

Alyssa Carlson. Identification of a triangular random coefficient model using a correction function. Review of Economics and Statistics.

Yajie Wang (with H. Firooz and Z. Liu). Automation and the Rise of Superstar Firms. Journal of Monetary Economics.

Liisa Laine (with P. Böckerman, M. Kortelainen, M. Nurminen, and T. Saxell). Information Technology, Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs. Journal of the European Economic Association.

Seunghoon Lee (with S. Zheng). Extreme Temperatures, Adaptation Capacity, and Household Retail Consumption. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Jennifer Mayo. Navigating the Notches: Charity Responses to Ratings. Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.

Yajie Wang (with J. Adams, M. Fang, and Z. Liu). The Rise of AI Pricing: Trends, Driving Forces, and Implications for Firm Performance. Journal of Monetary Economics.

Michael Pesko (with A.S. Friedman, A.C. Liber, and A. Crippen). E-cigarette Flavor Restrictions' Effects on Tobacco Product Sales. American Journal of Health Economics.

Nicolas Ziebarth (with E. Loualiche and C. Vickers). Firm Networks in the Great Depression. Journal of Economic History.

Cory Koedel (with D. Kim, E. Gorina, and J. Harrington). The Incidence of Social Security Taxes on Teacher Wages and Employment. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.

Alyssa Carlson and Wei Zhao (*24). Heckman sample selection estimators under heteroskedasticity. Stata Journal.

Cory Koedel and Eric Parsons (with I. Fazlul). Using Predicted Academic Performance to Identify At-Risk Students in Public Schools. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Cory Koedel (with N. Hwang). Helping or Hurting: The Effects of Retention in the Third Grade on Student Outcomes. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Xin Liu (*21). Testing in smoothed GMM quantile models with an application to quantile Euler equation. Econometrics and Statistics.

Yong Bian (*21) and Wei Kong (*18) (with Q. Zhang). Salary inequality in young professors: evidence from public U.S. economic departments. Applied Economics.

Nicolas Ziebarth (with P. Fishback and C. Vickers). Labor Market Effects of Workweek Restrictions: Evidence from the Great Depression. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.

Michael Pesko (with S.M. Farin and L. Hoehn-Velasco). The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal MortalityAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

J. Isaac Miller and William Brock. Polar Amplification in a Moist Energy Balance Model: A Structural Econometric Approach to Estimation and Testing. Journal of Econometrics.

Chao Gu (with G. Menzio, R. Wright, and Y. Zhu). Market Freezes. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

David M. Kaplan. Inference on Consensus Ranking of DistributionsJournal of Business & Economic Statistics.

Alyssa Carlson (with R. Joshi). Sample Selection in Linear Panel Data Models with Heterogeneous CoefficientsJournal of Applied Econometrics.

Cory Koedel (with C. Candelaria, I. Fazlul, and K. Shores). Weighting for Progressivity? An Analysis of Implicit Tradeoffs Associated with Weighted Student Funding in Tennessee. Economics of Education Review.

J. Isaac Miller and William Brock. Beyond RCP8.5: Marginal Mitigation Using Quasi-Representative Concentration PathwaysJournal of Econometrics.

Michael Pesko (with R. Abouk and P. De). Estimating the Effects of Tobacco-21 on Youth Tobacco Use and Sales. Journal of Health Economics. 

Xin Liu (*21). Averaging Estimation for Instrumental Variables Quantile Regression. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

Alyssa Carlson (with D. Brewer). Addressing Sample Selection Bias for Machine Learning MethodsJournal of Applied Econometrics.

J. Isaac Miller (with F. Pretis). Introduction to the Themed Issue on Climate Econometrics. Journal of Econometrics.

Alyssa Carlson. gtsheckman: Generalized two-step Heckman estimator. Stata Journal.

David M. Kaplan and Xin Liu (*21). Confidence Intervals for Intentionally Biased EstimatorsEconometric Reviews.

Wei Zhao (*24) and David M. Kaplan. Conditions for extrapolating differences in consumption to differences in welfare. Economic Inquiry.

Jennifer Mayo (with S. Karol). Effects of COVID-19 on the Nonprofit Sector. National Tax Journal.

Michael Pesko (with E.L. Mtenga). The effect of vertical identification card laws on teenage tobacco and alcohol use. Health Economics.

Cory Koedel (with M. Cook and M. Reda). Institutional Heterogeneity in the Education and Earnings Returns to Postsecondary Technical Education: Evidence from Missouri. Southern Economic Journal.

Michael Pesko (with M. Cooper). The effect of E-cigarette indoor vaping restrictions on infant mortalitySouthern Economic Journal.

J. Isaac Miller (with J.S. Castle and D.F. Hendry). Econometric Forecasting of Climate Change. Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Macroeconomic Forecasting.

Sofia Baker (*27) and Cory Koedel. Diversity Trends Among Faculty in STEM and non-STEM Fields at Selective Public Universities in the U.S. from 2016 to 2023. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Cheng Qian (*21) and Cory Koedel. Could Shifting the Margin Between Community College and University Enrollment Expand and Diversify University Degree Production in STEM Fields? Research in Higher Education.

Cory Koedel and Eric Parsons (with I. Fazlul). Measuring Family Income and Student Risk in Public Schools: A Conceptual and Empirical Comparison of Options. In What Comes After Lunch? Alternative Measures of Economic and Social Disadvantage and their Implications for Education Research.

David M. Kaplan and Xin Liu (*21). k-Class instrumental variables quantile regressionEmpirical Economics.

Brittany Street (with K. Finlay and M. Mueller-Smith). Children's Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative DataQuarterly Journal of Economics.

Alyssa Carlson. Relaxing conditional independence in an endogenous binary response modelJournal of Econometrics.

Liisa Laine (with P. Böckerman, M. Nurminen, and T. Saxell). Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of PrescribingJournal of Human Resources.

Chao Gu (with C. Monnet, E. Nosal, and R. Wright). Diamond-Dybvig and Beyond: on the Instability of BankingEuropean Economic Review.

Cory Koedel (with A. Bacher-Hicks). Estimation and Interpretation of Teacher Value Added in Research Applications. Handbook of the Economics of Education.

Michael Pesko (with K. Callison, S. Phillips, and J. A. Sosa). Cancer Screening after the Adoption of Paid-Sick-Leave MandatesNew England Journal of Medicine.

Michael Pesko (with D. Dave, Y. Liang, S. Phillips, and J. J. Sabia). Have recreational marijuana laws undermined public health progress on adult tobacco use?  Journal of Health Economics.

David M. Kaplan and Wei Zhao (*24). Comparing latent inequality with ordinal dataEconometrics Journal.

Chao Gu. Endogenous Cycles in a Competitive Search Credit Market. Economics Letters.

J. Isaac Miller. Local Climate Sensitivity: What Can Time Series of Distributions Reveal about Spatial Heterogeneity of Climate Change? Advances in Econometrics.

Oksana Loginova and X. H. Wang. Complementarity on Software as a Service Platforms. Managerial and Decision Economics.

Brittany Street (with K. Finlay and M. Mueller-Smith). Criminal Justice Involvement, Self-Employment, and Barriers in Recent Public Policy. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Saku Aura, William Brock, and Shawn Ni. A Chinese mayor problemJournal of Government and Economics.

Xiqian Wang (*19) and Yong Bian (*21) (with Qin Zhang). The effect of cooking fuel choice on the elderly’s well-being: Evidence from two non-parametric methods. Energy Economics.

Cory Koedel and Eric Parsons (with I. Fazlul). Free and Reduced-Price Meal Eligibility does not Measure Student Poverty: Evidence and Policy Significance. Economics of Education Review.

Michael Pesko (with W. Austin, S. Carattini, and J. Gomez-Mahecha). The effects of contemporaneous air pollution on COVID-19 morbidity and mortalityJournal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Michael Pesko (with R. Abouk, C. Courtemanche, D. Dave, B. Feng, A. S. Friedman, J. C. Maclean, J. J. Sabia, and S. Safford). Intended and unintended effects of e-cigarette taxes on youth tobacco use. Journal of Health Economics.

Michael Pesko (with R. Abouk, S. Adams, B. Feng, and J. C. Maclean). The effect of e-cigarette taxes on prepregnancy and prenatal smokingJournal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Sanguk Kwon (*21) and Shawn Ni. Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality: New Evidence from a Korean Household PanelApplied Economics Letters.

Wei Kong (*18) and Shawn Ni. A Structural Econometric Approach to Analyzing the Impact of Teacher Pension ReformEducational Researcher.

J. Isaac Miller (with Y. Chang and S. Lee). Introduction to "Essays in Honor of Joon Y. Park: Econometric Theory." Advances in Econometrics.

J. Isaac Miller (with Y. Chang and S. Lee). Introduction to "Essays in Honor of Joon Y. Park: Econometric Methodology in Empirical Applications." Advances in Econometrics.

Michael Pesko (with L. Hoehn-Velasco and S. Phillips). The Long-term Impact of In-Utero Cigarette Taxes on Adult Prenatal SmokingAmerican Journal of Health Economics.

Michael Pesko. Effects of e-cigarette minimum legal sales ages on youth tobacco use in the United StatesJournal of Risk and Uncertainty.

Michael Pesko (with J. C. Maclean, C. McClellan, D. Polsky). Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care services and behavioral health outcomesHealth Economics.

Cory Koedel and Eric Parsons (with many others). Academic Mobility in U.S. Public Schools: Evidence from Nearly 3 Million Students. Journal of Public Economics.

Michael Pesko (with M. Andersen, J.C. Maclean, K. Simon). Does paid sick leave encourage staying at home? Evidence from the United States during a pandemic. Health Economics.

David M. Kaplan and Lonnie Hofmann (*21). High-order Coverage of Smoothed Bayesian Bootstrap Intervals for Population QuantilesAustrian Journal of Statistics.

David M. Kaplan (with A.N. Kaser, W. Goette, and Andrew M. Kiselica). The impact of conventional versus robust norming on cognitive characterization and clinical classification of MCI and dementiaJournal of Neuropsychology.

Michael Pesko (with B.J. Lipton). State Medicaid and private telemedicine coverage requirements and telemedicine use, 2013–2019Health Services Research.

Michael Pesko (with J.C. Maclean, T. Khan, S. Tsipas). The effect of cigarette and e-cigarette taxes on prescriptions for smoking cessation medicationsHealth Services Research.

Liisa Laine (with K.E.M. Miller, J. Zhao, and N.B. Coe). Growth of Private Pay Senior Housing Communities in Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States: 2015–2019Medical Care Research and Review.

Cory Koedel and Eric Parsons (with I. Fazlul). A Poor Poverty Measure: To Identify Children in Need, We Need to Look Beyond Free Lunch DataEducation Next.

Cory Koedel (with T. Pham). The Narrowing Gender Wage Gap Among Faculty at Public Universities in the U.S. SAGE Open.

Cory Koedel and Eric Parsons (with Shannon Breske). Field Interest and the Choice of College MajorEconomics Bulletin.

Michael Pesko (with K. M. Cummings, C. E. Douglas, J. Foulds, T. Miller, N. A. Rigotti, K. E. Warner). United States public health officials need to correct e-cigarette health misinformationAddiction.

Michael Pesko (with A. C. Liber, C. Cadham, M. Cummings, and D. T. Levy). Poland is not replicating the HTP experience in Japan: a cautionary noteTobacco Control.

Michael Pesko (with C. Cotti, E. Nesson, S. Phillips, and N. Tefft). Standardising the measurement of e-cigarette taxes in the USA, 2010–2020Tobacco Control.

Shawn Ni, Michael Podgursky, and Fangda Wang (*22). How Much Are Public School Teachers Willing to Pay for Their Retirement Benefits? CommentAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Shawn Ni, Michael Podgursky, and Xiqian Wang (*19). Teacher Pension Plan Incentives, Retirement Decisions, and Workforce Quality. Journal of Human Resources.

J. Isaac Miller and Kyungsik Nam (*18). Modeling peak electricity demand: A semiparametric approach using weather-driven cross-temperature response functionsEnergy Economics.

J. Isaac Miller (with B. A. Eroğlu and T. Yiğit). Time-varying cointegration and the Kalman filterEconometric Reviews.

Oksana Loginova. Branded Websites and Marketplace Selling: Competing during COVID-19Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Oksana Loginova. Price Competition Online: Platforms vs. Branded WebsitesJournal of Economics and Management Strategy.

X. H. Wang (with L. Liu and H. Yu). Sequential Search with Partial Depth. Economics Letters.

Oksana Loginova and X. H. Wang (with Q. Liu). The Impact of Multi-Homing in a Ride-Sharing MarketAnnals of Regional Science.

X. H. Wang (with J. Zhao). Merger effects in asymmetric and differentiated Bertrand oligopoliesMathematical Social Sciences.

Tai Lee (*19). The Impact of Employment Protection on the Probability of Job Separation: Evidence from Job Duration Data in South KoreaJournal of Labor Research.

Liisa Laine (with G. David, C. Gunnarsson, M. Ryan, S. Clancy, G. Gunnarsson, K. Moore, and W. Irish). The Unintended Consequences of Medicare's Wage Index Adjustment on Device Intensive Hospital Procedures: The Case of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR)The American Journal of Managed Care.

Shawn Ni, Michael Podgursky, and Xiqian Wang (*19). Teacher Pension Enhancements and Staffing in an Urban School DistrictJournal of Pension Economics and Finance

David M. Kaplan. Smoothed instrumental variables quantile regressionStata Journal.

William Brock and Joseph Haslag. Two Approaches to Modeling Uncertainty: How Did Uncertainty Affect the Economy During and After the Great Recession. Singapore Economic Review.

Liisa Laine (with H. M. Ollila, M. Partinen, J. Koskela, J. Borghi, R. Savolainen, and A. Rotkirch). Face masks to prevent transmission of respiratory diseases: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on face mask usePLoS ONE.

Cory Koedel (with J. Eagan, N. Hwang, H. F. Ladd, and L. C. Sorensen). Teacher Attrition and the Business Cycle. Teachers College Record.

Cory Koedel and Eric Parsons (with D. Goldhaber and U. Ozek). Using Longitudinal Student Mobility to Identify At-Risk Students. AERA Open.

David M. Kaplan and Longhao Zhuo (*17). Frequentist Properties of Bayesian Inequality Tests. Journal of Econometrics.

Saroj Dhital (*19) and Joseph Haslag (with Pedro Gomis-Porqueras). Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in a Frictional Model of Fiat Money, Nominal Public Debt and Banking. European Economic Review.

Li Tan (*18). Imputing Top-Coded Income Data in Longitudinal Surveys. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

Brittany Street (with M. Hoekstra). The Effect of Own-Gender Jurors on ConvictionsJournal of Law and Economics.

Kyungsik Nam (*18). Investigating the effect of climate uncertainty on global commodity markets. Energy Economics.

Dongwoo Kim (post-doc), Cory Koedel, Wei Kong (*18), Shawn Ni, Michael Podgursky, and Weiwei Wu (*17). Pensions and Late Career Teacher Retention. Education Finance and Policy.

Joseph Haslag and Xue Li (*15). On Phase Shifts in a New Keynesian Model Economy. Macroeconomic Dynamics.

Cory Koedel (with N. Hwang and B. Kisida). A Familiar Face: Student-Teacher Rematches and Student Achievement. Economics of Education Review.

Ishtiaque Fazlul (post-doc), Cory Koedel, Eric Parsons, and Cheng Qian (*21). Estimating Test-Score Growth with a Gap Year in the Data. AERA Open.

Yang An (*20) and Cory Koedel. How do Teachers from Alternative Pathways Contribute to the Teaching Workforce in Urban Areas? Evidence from Kansas City. AERA Open.

Cory Koedel and Eric Parsons (with J. B. Cullen). The Compositional Effect of Rigorous Teacher Evaluation on Workforce Quality. Education Finance and Policy.

Cory Koedel and Eric Parsons. The Effect of the Community Eligibility Provision on the Ability of Free and Reduced-Price Meal Data to Identify Disadvantaged Students. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Dongwoo Kim (post-doc), Cory Koedel, and P. Brett Xiang (*). The Trade-off Between Pension Costs and Salary Expenditures in the Public Sector. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.

Dongwoo Kim (post-doc), Cory Koedel, Wei Kong (*18), Shawn Ni, Michael Podgursky and Weiwei Wu (*17). Pensions and Late Career Teacher Retention. Education Finance and Policy.

Aaron Hedlund (with C. Garriga, Y. Tang, and P. Wang). Rural-urban migration and house prices in ChinaRegional Science and Urban Economics.

J. Isaac Miller (with Y. Chang, Y. Choi, C. S. Kim, and J. Y. Park). Forecasting regional long-run energy demand: A functional coefficient panel approachEnergy Economics.

Peter Mueser (with R. Darolia and J. Cronin). Labor market returns to a prison GEDEconomics of Education Review.

Peter Mueser (with M. Michaelides and J. Smith). Do Reemployment Programs for The Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States. Economic Inquiry.

Xinghe Wang (with L. Liu). Product Differentiation and Equilibrium Price with Partial Product SearchEconomics Letters.

Shawn Ni (with D. Sun). Intrinsic Bayesian Estimation of Linear Time Series Models. Statistical Theory and Related Fields.

Oksana Loginova. Advance Selling, Competition and Brand SubstitutabilityManagerial and Decision Economics.

Jeff Milyo (with D. Primo). Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters. Book published by University of Chicago Press.

Aaron Hedlund (with C. Garriga). Mortgage Debt, Consumption, and Illiquid Housing Markets in the Great Recession. American Economic Review.

J. Isaac Miller (with Y. Chang, R. K. Kaufmann, C. S. Kim, J. Y. Park, and S. Park). Evaluating Trends in Time Series of Distributions: A Spatial Fingerprint of Human Effects on Climate. Journal of Econometrics.

Peter Mueser (with M. Michaelides). The Labor Market Effects of US Reemployment Policy: Lessons from an Analysis of Four Programs during the Great RecessionJournal of Labor Economics.

Chao Gu (with H. Han and R. Wright). The Effects of News When Liquidity Matters. International Economic Review.

Oksana Loginova (with N. Syam). Sourcing Co-Created Products: Should your Suppliers Collaborate on Cost Reductions? Review of Industrial Organization.

X. H. Wang (with L. Liu and C. Zeng). Endogenous Horizontal Product Differentiation in a Mixed Duopoly. Review of Industrial Organization.

Aaron Hedlund (with M. Famiglietti and C. Garriga). The Geography of Housing Market Liquidity During the Great Recession. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review.

Diyi Li (*19), Cheng Qian (*21), and Cory Koedel. Non-Resident Postsecondary Enrollment Growth and the Outcomes of In-State Students. Contemporary Economic Policy.

J. Isaac Miller and Kyungsik Nam (*18). Dating hiatuses: a statistical model of the recent slowdown in global warming and the next oneEarth System Dynamics.

Kuo‐Hsuan Chin (*15). Time varying structural VARs with sign restrictions: The case of TaiwanBulletin of Economic Research.

Jeff Milyo (with J. Butcher). Do Campaign Finance Reforms Insulate Incumbents from Competition? New Evidence from State Legislative Elections. PS: Political Science & Politics.

Cory Koedel (with M. S. Polikoff, S. Campbell, S. Rabovsky, Q. T. Le, T. Hardaway, and H. Gasparian). The Formalized Processes Districts Use to Evaluate Mathematics Textbooks. Journal of Curriculum Studies.

Cory Koedel (with R. Darolia, J. B. Main, F. Ndashimye, and J. Yan). High School Course Access and Postsecondary STEM Enrollment and Attainment. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

David M. Kaplan and Xin Liu (*21) (with L. de Castro and A. F. Galvao). Smoothed GMM for Quantile Models. Journal of Econometrics, 2019.

Kuo-Hsuan Chin (*15). New Keynesian Phillips Curve with time-varying parametersEmpirical Economics, 2019.

David M. Kaplan (with M. Goldman). Comparing Distributions by Multiple Testing Across Quantiles or CDF Values. Journal of Econometrics, 2018.

Taehwan Kim (*18). Price Competition and Market Segmentation in Retail Gasoline: New Evidence from South Korea. Review of Industrial Organization, 2018.

Chao Gu (with F. Mattesini and R. Wright). Money and Credit Redux. Econometrica, 2016.

Peter Mueser (with C. Jepsen and K. Troske). Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis. Journal of Political Economy, 2016.

Shawn Ni and Michael Podgursky. How Teachers Respond to Pension System Incentives: New Estimates and Policy Applications. Journal of Labor Economics, 2016.

William A. Brock and Joseph Haslag. A Tale of Two Correlations: Evidence and Theory Regarding the Phase Shift between the Price Level and Output. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2016.

David M. Kaplan. Improved quantile inference via fixed-smoothing asymptotics and Edgeworth expansion. Journal of Econometrics, 2015.

Shawn Ni and Youn Seol (*08). New Evidence on Excess Sensitivity of Household Consumption. Journal of Monetary Economics, 2014.

Cory Koedel (with P. Arcidiacono). Race and College Success: Evidence from Missouri. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014.

Chao Gu and Joseph Haslag. Unconventional Optimal Open Market Purchases. Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014.

J. Isaac Miller. Mixed-frequency Cointegrating Regressions with Parsimonious Distributed Lag StructuresJournal of Financial Econometrics, 2014.

Chao Gu (with F. Mattesini, C. Monnet, and R. Wright). Banking: A New Monetarist Approach. Review of Economic Studies, 2013.

Oksana Loginova and X. H. Wang. Customization in an Endogenous-Timing Game with Vertical Differentiation. Economic Modelling, 2013.

Chao Gu (with F. Mattesini, C. Monnet, and R. Wright). Endogenous Credit Cycles. Journal of Political Economy, 2013.