Publications

• Diversity and Crowd-out: A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving (April 2007, published in the Journal of Public Economics)

• The Church vs. The Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition? (July 2006, with Jonathan Gruber, published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics )

• Race and Charitable Church Activity (August 2007, published in Economic Inquiry )

• Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out During the Great Depression (May 2005, with Jonathan Gruber, published in the Journal of Public Economics)

• Are Church and State Substitutes? Evidence from the 1996 Welfare Reform (October 2004, published in the Journal of Public Economics)

• The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation (June 2010, with Elizabeth Ananat, forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics) code and data

Working Papers and Papers in Review

• Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers (August 2010, with Kasey Buckles)

• Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws’ Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout (May 2010, with Jonathan Gruber and Alan Gerber)

• Does Religious Proscription Cause People to Act Differently? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test (August, 2010)

• Rethinking the Study of Religious Market (October 2009) drafted for the Handbook of the Economics of Religion (Rachel McCleary, editor)