1. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes: Exploring the Effects of the Poor People’s Campaign

    The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, protestors from across the country were transported to…

  2. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    The Private Value of Entrepreneurial Control: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment

    We study how much entrepreneurs value control rights in the context of VC financing. While many entrepreneurs prefer to maintain control, transferring control rights is also central to VC contract design.…

  3. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    Local Economic Impacts of Wind Power Deployment in Denmark

    An argument sometimes used to support renewable energy is that it may contribute to job creation. On the other hand, these technologies often face local opposition. In the case of Denmark, the country with the…

  4. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Crowding-In Effects

    Using the National Compensation Survey from 2009 to 2022 and difference-in-differences methods, we find that state-level sick pay mandates are effective in broadening access for U.S. workers. Increases in…

  5. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    First Best Implementation With Costly Information Acquisition

    We study mechanism design with flexible but costly information acquisition. There is a principal and four or more agents, sharing a common prior over a set of payoff-relevant states. The principal proposes a…

  6. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    Complementary bidding and the collusive arrangement: Evidence from an antitrust investigation

    Clustered bids and a missing mass of nearly tied bids have both been proposed as markers of collusion. We present causal empirical evidence from an actual pro- curement cartel that bidding involves both…

  7. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    The integration of migrants in the German labour market: evidence over 50 years

    Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labour market integration over the last 50 years and highlight differences to…