PUBLISHED PAPERS

– Does Other People’s Education Make Us Less Happy? Economics of Education Review (forthcoming) [download here]
– (with Daniel Bennett) Give Me Liberty and Give Me Control: Economic Freedom and Control Perceptions. European Journal of Political Economy (conditionally accepted) [download here]
– (with Rauf Salahodjaev) The Role of Intelligence in the Distribution of National Happiness. Intelligence (forthcoming)
– Living with Mom and Dad and Loving It…or Are You? Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) [download here]
– (with Ainslee Burns) Inter-generational Mobility and Subjective Well-being – Evidence from the General Social Survey. Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics. 53 (1) 2014: 82-96 [download here]
– Using Experiments and Media to Introduce Game Theory Into the Principles Classroom. Journal of Private Enterprise and Education. 29 (2) 2014: 149-160 [download here]
– Economic Freedom and Quality of Life – Evidence from the OECD’s Your Better Life Index. Journal of Private Enterprise and Education. 29 (3) 2014: 1-31 [download here]
– (with Joshua Hall, John Pulito, and Benjamin VanMetre) The Effect of Personal and Economic Freedom on Entrepreneurial Activity: Evidence from a New State Level Freedom Index. American Journal of Entrepreneurship. 6(1) 2013: 85-99

WORKING PAPERS

– Rising Income Inequality and Economic Growth—Are Americans Better Off?—Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data. [download here]
– (with Daniel Bennett) On the Ambiguous Economic Freedom-Inequality Relationship [download here]
– (with Daniel Bennett) Factor Endowments, The Rule of Law & Structural Inequality: Testing the Engerman-Sokoloff Hypothesis [download here]
– (with Daniel Bennett) Economic Freedom and Emotional Well-Being [download here]
– (with Milena Nikolova) Saving Habits and Happiness: Evidence from Panel Data [download here]
– (with Milena Nikolova) Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? [download here]
– (with Daniel Bennett) Do Institutions of Capitalism Promote More Equal Distribution of Happiness? [download here]