How Does Granting Driving Privileges to Undocumented Migrants Affect Traffic Fatalities?
Proponents of these laws have reasoned that giving driving privileges to undocumented migrants would improve public safety.
Research
What are the Effects of Utah Income Tax Rate Cuts?
Utah legislators have been considering an income tax cut that will support the state’s growth and leave some reserves for a future rainy day.
What are the Effects of Missouri Corporate Income Tax Rate Cuts?
Missouri lawmakers are considering reforms that support the state’s growth while leaving reserves available for potential economic downturn.
Flexible open credentials: How micro and nanocredentials can revolutionize higher education
Online learning changed higher education and untapped potential to improve how we assess and credential students.
What Business Tax Reforms Would Be Best for Tennessee?
Most state budget surpluses, tax revenues, and rainy day funds are currently at 20-year highs. What should legislators do with these funds?
Is Common Carriage a Good Framework for Social Media Platforms?
Many proposals classify and regulate social media companies as “common carriers”. These laws may not be good for the media marketplace.
Carbon Taxes without Tears?
This paper explores a modest but not insignificant opportunity to put a price on carbon that doesn’t raise consumer prices.
How does targeted cash assistance affect incentives to work?
What are targeted cash assistance programs and what are their effects? CGO Visiting Scholar Max Ghenis discusses in this research in focus.
University Research, Technological Commercialization, and Location
Research commercialization is when a university signs a contract with a private company. Does location matter for these deals?
Deaths of Despair: Prescriptive Authority of Psychologists and Suicides
Between 2002 and 2017, states passed legislation allowing psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medication. What happened to suicides rates?
Bank Risk and the Democratization of Stockholding
Using unique bank-level data for South Dakota, the author finds there was a substantial rise in the number of bank stockholders after 1924.
How to Reform Occupational Licensing in Utah
This policy paper provides an overview of how to reform occupational licensing in Utah to ensure that consumers benefit.
In Search of Peace and Quiet: The Heterogeneous Impacts of Short-Term Rentals on Housing Prices
This paper analyses the impact of peer-to-peer markets and how to regulate these industries to create the best results for consumers.
How Policing Incentives Affect Crime, Measurement, and Justice
This experiment examines how police accountability can have both negative and positive effects on the crime rate and false convictions.
Scope of Practice Reform: Cost Savings and Patient Empowerment
Flanigan argues that scope of practice laws restrict patients' access to specific services and limit their choice of healthcare providers.
How Price-Gouging Regulation Undermined COVID-19 Mitigation: Evidence of Unintended Consequences
This analyzes COVID contacts in commercial spaces using smartphone data and studies the impact of price-gouging laws on mitigation efforts.
Improving Health Care Service Delivery by Relaxing Restrictions on Nurse Practitioners’ Professional Independence
In this paper, the authors examine the potential impacts of granting nurse practitioners (NP) increased autonomy over healthcare provision.
Reducing a Barrier to Entry: The 120/150 CPA Licensing Rule
In this paper, economists examine how effective occupational licensing requirements are at improving quality by looking at the CPA.
How to Reform Occupational Licensing
State-level occupational licensing reform would be an important step toward a lasting economic recovery post-COVID-19.
Occupational Licensing and Skills Mismatches
Researchers examine whether occupational licensing improves the match between workers’ skills and those needed for their occupations.
Police Trust and Domestic Violence among Immigrants: Evidence from VAWA Self- Petitions
The study shows that adopting welcoming policies towards immigrants increases VAWA self-petitions. Learn more about the research here.
Are Government-Owned Broadband Networks Effective?
Will Rinehart examines the existing research on the effectiveness of GONs in adding value to local communities.
The Economic Geography of Beer Regulations
In 1980, 92 beer producers existed. Today, there are 8,386. This paper analyzes state regulations and their impacts.
Universal Savings Accounts: A Flexible Financial Tool to Support the Gig Economy
This paper explores how reforming the U.S. tax code allows gig economy workers greater financial security through USAs.
Warding Off Development: Local Control, Housing Supply, and NIMBYs
This examines cities that switched from at-large to ward elections and the effects on how many building permits cities issue for housing.
State Immigration Restrictions and Crime: Examining Arizona’s SB 1070
This study examines crime rates in Arizona before and after the passage of SB 1070. Learn more about the research here.
The Effects of Dental Hygienist Autonomy on Dental Care Utilization
In this paper, researchers focus on the impacts scope-of-practice laws have on dental hygienists and the use and cost of dental care.
Immigrant Communities and Knowledge Spillovers
Researchers found that counties where more Danes migrated after 1880 then specialized in dairying and used more modern practices.
Driver’s Licenses for Unauthorized Immigrants and Auto Insurance
The authors of this paper extend previous research by examining the effects of UILPs on insurance rates. Learn more about the research here.
Do Immigration Enforcement Programs Reduce Crime?
In this paper, researchers examine if 287(g) programs, partnerships between federal officials and local law enforcement, are reducing crime.