This paper examines the effect of state level corruption on state beer taxes in the United States. Our lobby group model predicts that corruption reduces the beer tax, but this effect is conditional on the level of alcohol-related vehicle deaths. Using a panel of state level data from 1982 to...

We use a choice experiment to examine public support for minimum wages. We first elicit respondents' moral assessment of two labor market systems: one with a minimum wage and one without. Then, we present four pairs of hypothetical employment outcomes and ask respondents to "vote." Our estimates...

The number of breweries in the U.S. states in 2012 varied from 3 in Mississippi to 363 in California. Relative to the population, Vermont has 1 brewery for every 25,040 people and Mississippi has one brewery for every 994,975 people. Most southern states have fewer breweries per population than...

We use the model developed by Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny (1991) to examine the causal relationship between institutions as measured by economic freedom and industry employment, and then given the causality, examine how the amount of employment in these causal industries influences economic...

We use a survey-based experiment to examine public support for minimum wages. We first elicit respondents' moral assessment of two labor market systems: one with a minimum wage and one without. We find that gender and political affiliation are the strongest predictors of moral assessments, where...