Publications by UCI Students

      (published since 2003; research initiated at UCI)

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Asay, G.R. (2008). “How Does Ideology Matter in the Spatial Model of Voting?” Public Choice 135, 109-123.

Saari, D.G. and G.R. Asay (2010). “Finessing a Point: Augmenting the Core,” Social Choice and Welfare 34, 121-143.

Chowdhury,  P. (2011) "A New Perspective on Violent Crime Burden Index: Evidence from Indian Districts" with K. Chaudhuri and K. Reilly), Social Indicators Research, Online Fast

Ranjan, P. and B. Bakshi (2006). "Corruption, Environmental Resources, and Trade," B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy (Topics) 6, 1-28.

Bono, J.W. (2008). “Sales Contests, Promotion Decisions and Heterogeneous Risk,” Managerial and Decision Economics 29, 371-382.

Bono, J. and D. Wolpert (2010) “PGT: A Statistical Approach to Prediction and Mechanism Design,” Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP10). forthcoming.

Buchmueller, T.C., A.T. Lo Sasso, and K.N. Wong, (2008). “How Did SCHIP Affect the
Insurance Coverage of Immigrant Children?” B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &
Policy 8.

Carter, S. (2008). “Court-Ordered Busing and Housing Prices: The Case of Pasadena and San
Marino,” Journal of Real Estate Research 30, 377-393.

Chan, J.C.C. (2005). “Replication of the Results in 'Learning about Heterogeneity in Returns to
Schooling',” Journal of Applied Econometrics 20, 439-443.

Chaturvedi, A. (2005). “Rigging Elections with Violence,” Public Choice 125, 189-202.

Fang, H.A. (2008). “A Discrete–Continuous Model of Households’ Vehicle Choice and Usage, With an Application to the Effects of Residential Density,” Transportation Research Part B 42, 736-758.

Fiala, N. (2008). “Measuring Sustainability: Why the Ecological Footprint is Bad Economics and Bad Environmental Science,” Ecological Economics 4, 519-525.

Fiala, N. (2008). “Meeting the Demand: An Estimation of Potential Future Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Meat Production,” Ecological Economics 3, 412-419.

Finlay, K. and D. Neumark (2010). “Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration,” Journal of Human Resources 45, 1046-1088.

Finlay, K. (2009). “Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders," in D.H. Autor (ed). Studies of Labor Market Intermediation (University of Chicago Press).

Franz, I. (2010). “Grade Inflation under the Threat of Students' Nuisance,” Economics of Education Review 29, 411-422.

Girvin, R. (2010). “Aircraft Noise Regulation, Airline Service Quality, and Social Welfare: the Monopoly Case,” Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 19, 17-35.

Girvin, R. (2009). “Aircraft Noise-Abatement and Mitigation Strategies,” Journal of Air Transport Management 15, 14-22.

Brueckner, J.K. and R. Girvin (2008). “Airport Noise Regulation, Airline Service Quality, and Social Welfare,” Transportation Research Part B 42, 19-37.

Graves, J. (2010). “The Academic Impact of Multi-Track Year-Round School Calendars: A Response to School Overcrowding,” Journal of Urban Economics 67, 378-391.

Jeliazkov, I., J. Graves, and M. Kutzbach (2008). “Fitting and Comparison of Models for Multivariate Ordinal Outcomes,” Advances in Econometrics: Bayesian Econometrics 23, 115-156.

Hymel, K., K.A. Small and K. Van Dender (2010). “Induced Demand and Rebound Effects in Road Transport,” Transportation Research Part B 44, 1220-1241.

Hymel, K. (2009). “Does Traffic Congestion Reduce Employment Growth?” Journal of Urban Economics 65, 127-135.

Jia, H. (2010) “On a class of contest success functions," B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 10.

Jia, H. (2008). “A Stochastic Derivation of Contest Success Functions,” Public Choice 135, 109-123.

Kumar, V. and M. Beckmann, “How Presidents Push, When Presidents Win: Locating Presidential Power in Congress,” Journal of Theoretical Politics, forthcoming.

Kumar, V. and S. Skaperdas (2009). “Organized Crime,” in N. Garoupa (ed.). Criminal Law and Economics, Vol 3 of Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Edgar Elgar).

Kutzbach, M. (2009). “Motorization in Developing Countries: Causes, Consequences, and Effectiveness of Policy Options,” Journal of Urban Economics 65, 154-166.

Jeliazkov, I. and E. Lee (2010). “MCMC Perspectives on Simulated Likelihood Estimation,” Advances in Econometrics: Maximum Simulated Likelihood 26, 3-39.

Lee, E. H. (2009). “Review of Fluctuations in Land and Stock Prices in the Japanese Economy,”The Korean Journal of Economics 16, 95-122.

Ranjan, P. and J.Y. Lee (2007). “Contract Enforcement and International Trade,” Economics andPolitics 19, 191-218.

Lee, W. (2009). “Private Deception and the Rise of Public Employment Offices in the United States, 1890-1930,” in D.H. Autor (ed). Studies of Labor Market Intermediation (University of Chicago Press).

Li, L. (2010) “Reputation, Trust, and Rebates: How Online Auction Markets Can Improve Their Feedback Mechanisms,” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 19, 303–331.

Li, L. and D. Saari (2008). “Sen’s Theorem: Geometric Proof, New Interpretations," Social Choice and Welfare 31, 393-413.

Li, M., D.J. Poirier and J.L. Tobias (2004). “Do Dropouts Suffer from Dropping Out? Estimation and Prediction of Outcome Gains in Generalized Selection Models,” Journal of Applied Econometrics 19, 203-225.

Li, M. and J.L. Tobias (2004). “Returns to Schooling and Bayesian Model Averaging: A Union of Two Literatures,” Journal of Economic Surveys 18, 153-180.

Li, M. (2003). “A Model-Combined Estimator of Elasticity of Scale,” Applied Economics Letters 10, 119-122.

Li, M. and J.L. Tobias (2003). “A Finite-Sample Hierarchical Analysis of Wage Variation Across Public High Schools: Evidence from the NLSY and High School and Beyond,”Journal of Applied Econometrics 18, 315-336.

Li, M. and J.L. Tobias (2003). “A Semiparametric Investigation of the School Quality-Earnings Relationship,” Applied Economics Letters 10, 43-45

Li, P. and M.A. Rahman (2011). “Bayesian Analysis of Multivariate Sample Selection Models Using Gaussian Copulas,” Advances in Econometrics: Missing Data Problems, forthcoming.

Li, P. (2011). “Estimation of sample selection models with two selection mechanisms,”Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 55, 1099-1108.

Jeliazkov, I. and R. Liu (2010). “A Model-Based Ranking of U.S. Recessions,” Economics Bulletin 30, 2289-2296.

Jeliazkov, I. and A. Lloro (2011). “Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation: Techniques and Applications in Economics,” in Computational Optimization, Methods and Algorithms, X.-S. Yang and S. Koziel (eds.) 87-102. Springer.

Ng, C. (2008). “Commuting Distances in a Household Location Choice Model with Amenities,”Journal of Urban Economics 63, 116-129.

Ng., C. (2006). “Emergence of Market for Southwest Airlines Frequent Flyer Awards,”Transportation Research Record 1951, 37-43.

Pai, V. (2010). “On the Factors that Affect Airline Flight Frequency and Aircraft Size,” Journal of Air Transport Management 16, 169-177.

Brueckner, J.K. and V. Pai (2009). “Technological Innovation in the Airline Industry: The Impact of Regional Jets,” International Journal of Industrial Organization 27, 110-120.

Ranjan, P. and J. Raychaudhuri (2011). “Self-selection vs. Learning: Evidence from Indian
Exporting Firms,” Indian Growth and Development Review 4, 22-37.

Robson, A. and S. Skaperdas (2008). “Costly Enforcement of Property Rights and the Coase
Theorem,” Economic Theory 36, 109-128.

Rose, A.Z. G. Oladosu, B. Lee, and G.R. Asay (2009). “The Economic Impacts of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis,” Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 15.

Shah, N. and J.K. Brueckner, “Price and Frequency Competition in Freight Transportation,”
Transportation Research Part A, forthcoming.

Steimetz, S., and D. Brownstone (2010). “Estimating Commuters’ ‘Value of Time’ with Noisy
Data: a Multiple Imputation Approach,”Transportation Research Part B 39, 865–889.

Steimetz, S. (2009). “White-Knuckle Externalities,” Economic Inquiry 47, 304–316.

Steimetz, S. (2008). “Defensive Driving and the External Costs of Accidents and Travel Delays,”Transportation Research Part B 42, 703–724.

Richardson, G. and W. Troost (2009). “Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics During
the Great Depression,” Journal of Political Economy 117, 1031-1073.

Uppal, Y. (2010). “Estimation of the Incumbency Effects in the US State Legislatures: A Quasi-
Experimental Approach,” Economics and Politics 22, 180-99.

Uppal, Y. (2009). “The Disadvantaged Incumbents: Estimating Incumbency Effects in Indian
State Legislatures,” Public Choice 138, 9-27.

Skaperdas, S. and S. Vaidya, “Persuasion as a Contest,” Economic Theory, forthcoming.

Vaidya, S. (2009). “Influencing the Public and Efficiency in Bureaucratic Provision,” Pacific
Economic Review 14, 259-27

Vaidya, S. (2006). “The Nature of Corruption Deterrence in a Competitive Media Sector,”
Economics of Governance 7, 229-243.

Vaidya, S. (2005). “Corruption in the Media’s Gaze,” European Journal of Political Economy,21, 667-687.

Richardson, G., and P. Van Horn (2009). “Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in
New York City during the Great Depression,” Journal of Economic History 69, 446-465.

Verlinda, J.A. (2006). “A Comparison of Two Common Approaches for Estimating Marginal
Effects in Binary Choice Models,” Applied Economics Letters 13, 77-80.

Verlinda, J.A. (2005). “A Bayesian Analysis of Tree Structure Specification in Nested Logit
Models,” Economics Letters 87, 67-73.

Barkowski, S., Bradley, C., Neumark, D. (2013). "Does Employer-Provided Health Insurance Constrain Labor Supply Adjustments to Health Shocks? New Evidence on Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer", Journal of Health Economics.