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Economics Ph.D. student publications


  Publications
  Azam, M., & Han, L. (2020). Accounting for differences in female labor force participation between China and India. The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 20(2), 20190302.
  Bambio, Y., Deb, A., & Kazianga, H. (2022). Exposure to agricultural technologies and adoption: The West Africa agricultural productivity program in Ghana, Senegal and Mali. Food Policy, 113, 102288.
  Davidsson, M. & Rickman, D.S. (2011). U.S. micropolitan area growth: A spatial equilibrium growth analysis. The Review of Regional Studies, 41(2, 3), 179-203.
  Dass, M., & Lahiri, B. (2025). Unpacking economic mobility: The short-and long-term impacts of trade liberalization. Economics Letters, 251, 112327.
  Ding, H & Kim, J (2017), Inflation-targeting and real interest rate parity: A bias correction approach, Economic Modelling 60, 132-137
  Ding. H & Kim, J (2012), Does inflation targeting matter for PPP? An empirical investigation, Applied Economics 19 (18), 1777-1780
  Fufa, T. & Kim, J. (2018), Stock markets, banks, and economic growth: Evidence from more homogeneous panels, Research in international business and finance 44, 504-517
  Fufa, T. & Kim, J. (2018), Financial development, economic growth and convergence clubs, Applied Economics 40 (1), 35-39.
  Han, L., & Winters, J. V. (2020). Industry fluctuations and college major choices: Evidence from an energy boom and bust. Economics of Education Review, 77, 101996.
  Han, L., & Winters, J. V. (2024). Did the US fracking boom shale-shock regional patenting? Growth and Change, 55(4), e12740.
  Hwang, I., & Kim, J. (2024). Oil price shocks and macroeconomic dynamics: How important is the role of nonlinearity?. Empirical Economics, 66(3), 1103-1123.
  Hwang, I., & Kim, J. (2021). Oil price shocks and the US stock market: A nonlinear approach. Journal of Empirical Finance 64, 23-36.
  Kazianga, H. and Makamu, F. (2017). Crop choice, school participation, and child labor in developing countries: Cotton expansion in Burkina Faso. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 99(1), pp.34-54.
  Kuo, Y. M., & Azam, M. (2023). Impacts of Cross-Country Infrastructure on Bilateral Trade: Evidence from New Silk Road Railways. Journal of Economic Insight, 49(1).
  Lahiri, B., & Ali, H. (2022). Inspections, informal payments and tax payments by firms. Finance Research Letters, 46, 102311.
  Lahiri, B., & Daramola, R. (2023). Effects of credit and labor constraints on microenterprises and the unintended impact of changes in household endowments: Use of threshold estimation to detect heterogeneity. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 88, 21-38.
  Lahiri, B., & Deb, A. (2022). Impact of the Indian “demonetization” policy on its export performance. Empirical Economics, 62(6), 2799–2825.
  Lahiri, B., & Han, L. (2020). Effect of product obsolescence on wages: Role of international trade and skill levels. Economics Letters, 186, 108851.
  Larcher, K, Kim, J, & Kim, Y. (2019) Uncertainty shocks and asymmetric dynamics in Korea: a non-linear approach, Applied Economics 51 (6), 594-610
  Makamu, F., Azam, M. and Kazianga, H., 2018. Returns to controlling a neglected tropical disease: schistosomiasis control programme and education outcomes in Nigeria. Journal of African Economies, 27(5), pp.538-557.
  Osei, M. J., & Sengupta, S. (2019). Heterogeneity in the local employment multipliers in the United States. Growth and Change, 50(3), 880–893.
  Partridge, M.D., Rickman, D.S., Olfert, M.R., & Tan, Y. (2017). International trade and local labor markets: Do foreign and domestic shocks affect regions differently? Journal of Economic Geography, 17(2), 375-409.
  Partridge, M.D., Rickman, D.S., Olfert, M.R., & Tan, Y. (2015). When spatial equilibrium fails: Is place-based policy second best? Regional Studies, 49(8), 1303-1325.
  Partridge, M.D., Rickman, D.S., Tan, Y., & Olfert, M.R. (2015). U.S. regional poverty post-2000: The lost decade. Economic Development Quarterly, 29(1), 38-48.
 

Rickman, D.S. & and Guettabi, M. (2015). The Great Recession and nonmetropolitan America. Journal of Regional Science, 55(1), 93-112.

  Rickman, D.S., Wang, H., (2025). The long-standing push to eliminate state personal income taxes in Oklahoma: Is there an economic growth case to be made? Reaching Regions, 1(1), 1-14.
  Rickman, D.S., & Wang, H. (2025). COVID-19 and beyond: economic outcomes in Republican vs. Democratic States. Applied Economics, 57(48), 7921-7940.
  Rickman, D.S., & Wang, H. (2024). Estimating the economic effects of US state and local fiscal policy: A synthetic control method matched regression approach. Growth and Change, 55, (2),1-25.
  Rickman, D.S., & Wang, H. (2023). Creating and maintaining film clusters: Synthetic control method analysis of the enactment and repeal of US state film incentives. Papers in Regional Science, 102(2), 363-392.
  Rickman, D.S., & Wang, H. (2022). Industry aggregation and assessment of state economic development from motion picture and television production incentives. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 52(1), 82-104.
  Rickman, D. S. & Wang, H. (2020). Whither the U.S. nonmetropolitan West? Natural amenities, energy and growth. Annals of Regional Science, 63(3), 673-701.
  Rickman, D.S. & Wang, H. (2020). What goes up must come down? The recent economic cycles of the four most oil and gas dominated states in the US. Energy Economics, 86(February), 1-16.
  Rickman, D.S. & Wang, H. (2020). State and local taxes and expenditures and economic growth: Do we know more now. Journal of Economic Surveys, 34(2), 424-465.
  Rickman, D.S. & Wang, H. (2018). Two tales of two states: Regional fiscal austerity and economic performance. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 68, 46-55.
  Rickman, D.S., Wang, H., & Winters, J.V. (2019). Adjusting state public school teacher salaries for interstate comparison. Public Finance Review, 47(1), 142-169.
  Rickman, D.S., Wang, H., (2017). U.S. regional population growth 2000-2010: Natural amenities or urban agglomeration? Papers in Regional Science, 96(S1), S69-S90.
  Rickman, D.S., Wang, H., & Winters, J.V. (2017). Relative teacher salaries and the decision to teach. Contemporary Economic Policy, 35(3), 542-550.
  Rickman, D.S., Wang, H., & Winters, J.V. (2017). Is shale development drilling holes in the educational attainment pipeline? Energy Economics, 62, 283-290.
  Saing, C.H. and Kazianga, H., 2020. The long-term impacts of violent conflicts on human capital: US bombing and, education, earnings, health, fertility and marriage in Cambodia. The Journal of Development Studies, 56(5), pp.874-889.
  Sengupta, S., & Azam, M. (2025). The effect of trade liberalization on marriage and fertility: Evidence from Indian census. Oxford Economic Papers, 77(3), 653–674.
  Siaplay, M., 2014. Do countries that recognize dual citizenship have healthier economies? Evidence from the Economic Community of West African States. Migration and Development, 3(2), pp.254-271.
  Su, Q., & Azam, M. (2023). Does access to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) reduce the household burden of women? Evidence from India. Energy Economics, 119, 106529.
  Su, Q., & Lahiri, B. (2023). Does the Belt and Road Initiative boost Chinese automobile exports? A staggered adoption approach. Applied Economics, 56(59), 8855-8859.
  Wang, H. & Rickman, D.S. (2020). Housing price and population growth across China: The role of housing supply. International Regional Science Review, 43(3), 203-228.
  Wang, H. & Rickman, D.S. (2018). Regional growth differences in China for 1995-2013: An empirical integrative analysis of their sources. Annals of Regional Science, 60 (1), 99-117.
  Wang, J., Rickman, D.S. & Yu, Y. (2022) Dynamics between global value chain participation, CO2 emissions, and economic growth: Evidence from a panel vector autoregression model. Energy Economics, 109(C), 1-20.
  Wang, H., & Zhu, X. (2024). Can institutional investors influence media sentiment?. International Journal of Managerial Finance, 20(5), 1295-1319.
  Winters, J. V., Cai, Z., Maguire, K., & Sengupta, S. (2021). Causal effects of the fracking boom on long‐term resident workers. Journal of Regional Science, 61(2), 387–406.
  Yu, Y. & Rickman, D.S. (2013). U.S. state and local fiscal policies and nonmetropolitan area economic performance: A spatial equilibrium analysis. Papers in Regional Science, 92(3), 579-597.
  Zhu, X., & Kim, J. (2023). Financial development and innovation: The role of market structure. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
  Zhu, X., & Kuo, Y. M. (2022). Finance-induced Innovation: A New Mechanism Explaining Finance-Inequality Relationship. Journal of Income Distribution
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