Working Papers

Papers under Review

  • “A Green Light for Red Patents: New Evidence from Soviet Innovation Abroad, 1933 to 1991,” Michigan State University, 2010, revise and resubmit
  • “Bad International Relations but More Science? Soviet Technological Spillovers and the Boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics,” with Maksym Ivanya, Michigan State University

Other Working Papers

  • Discrimination in Lending? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program,” with Rachel M.B. Atkins and Robert Seamans, February 2021.
  • The Antebellum Roots of Distinctively Black Names,” with Trevon D. Logan and John Parman, NBER Working Paper No. 28101 November 2020.
  • The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations,” with Maggie E.C. Jones, Trevon D. Logan, and David Rose, NBER Working Paper No. 26819 (March 2020).
  • “A Green Light for Red Patents: New Evidence from Soviet Innovation Abroad, 1933 to 1991,” Michigan State University, 2010, revise and resubmit.
  • The Idea Gap in Pink and Black,” with Chaleampong Kongchareon, NBER Working Paper No. 16331, September 2010, revise and resubmit.
  • “Bad International Relations but More Science? Soviet Technological Spillovers and the Boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics,” with Maksym Ivanya, Michigan State University.
  • “A New Geography of Lynching from the New National Lynching Data Set,” Michigan State University, October 2013.
  • The Color of Lynching,” Michigan State University, presented at the American Economic Association meetings, Chicago, January 2012.
  • “Under-adjustment to Extreme Macroeconomic Events? Evidence from Michigan Households during the Great Recession,” October 2010.
  • “Is Intellectual-Property Protection in Developing Countries and Emerging Markets Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Ethanol Production in Brazil, 1980 to 2008,” with Chaleampong Kongchareon, Michigan State University, March 2010.
  • “Financial Crisis and Growth in Nigeria: Evidence from the Community Banking System,” Stanford University, September 2003.
  • “Export Platforms in Tunisia,” Center for International Development, Harvard University, June 2000 [Harvard Business School, Making Markets Work].
  • “Export Platforms in Ghana,” Center for International Development, Harvard University, October 1999 [Harvard Business School, Making Markets Work].