Policy Research
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The Origins and Destinations of Chattanooga's Young Adult Migrants, Center for Regional Economic Research, White Paper Number 6, July 2024.
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The Demographics of Chattanooga Employment Growth, Center for Regional Economic Research, White Paper Number 5, May 2024
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The Past Ain't What It Used to Be: Chattanooga Employment Revised Upward, Center for Regional Economic Research, White Paper Number 4, April 2024
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Recession and Recovery in Chattanooga, 1990-2023, Center for Regional Economic Research, White Paper Number 3, March 2024.
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Economic "Causality" Among Chattanooga and its Regional Neighbors, Center for Regional Economic Research, White Paper Number 2, February 2024.
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Chattanooga Metro Employment, 1990-2-23: Decline, Recovery, and Transformation, Center for Regional Economic Research, White Paper Number 1, January 2024.
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If You Tax Something, You Get Less of It: The Effects of Earnings Taxes on Economic Growth in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Missouri," Show-Me Institute Report, July 2023.
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Is Growth in Outstate Missouri Tied to Growth in the St. Louis and Kansas City Areas?, Show-Me Institute Report, June 2023.
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Student Outcomes and Spending on Teachers in the Aftermath of Recession, Missouri Policy Journal, Fall/Winter 2022, 15-24.
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Tech Work in St. Louis: Past, Present, and Future, TechSTL Report, October 2022.
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The Missouri-Wide Effects of City Earnings Taxes, Missouri Policy Journal, 9, Spring/Summer 2020, 59-63.
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Taxing Business in Missouri, Show-Me Institute Essay, with Rik Hafer, October 2017.
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Is Growth in Outstate Missouri Related to Growth in the St. Louis and Kansas City Metro Areas?, Show-Me Institute Essay, June 2017.
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Updated Estimates of the Effects of Earnings Taxes on City Growth, Show-Me Institute Essay, September 2014.
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New Evidence of the Effects of City Earnings Taxes on Growth, Show-Me Institute Essay, October 2013.
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The Missouri Quality Jobs Program: Rearranging the Deck Chairs (And Throwing Some Overboard), Missouri Policy Journal, 2013.
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'True' Unemployment in the United States and the St. Louis Metro Area, ISEE Policy Series Number 16, January 26, 2012.
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Tax Credits as a Tool of State Economic Development Policy, Show-Me Institute Policy Study, November 2011
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Cross-Border Lobbying in Preferential Trading Arrangements, with S. Bandyopadhyay and S. Lahiri, WTO World Trade Report Forum, May 3, 2011.
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Revised Employment Data for Metro Areas in the Eighth District, with Michael R. Pakko, CRE8 Occasional Report 2008-01, March 18, 2008.
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Post-Casting Employment in the Eighth Federal Reserve District: Revised Data for Metro Areas, CRE8 Occasional Report 2007-01, with Michael R. Pakko, March 9, 2007
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Passive Policies for Entrepreneurs, with Thomas A. Garrett, FRB St. Louis Community Affairs Research Report, October 2005.