
Welcome,
I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Mississippi. My primary areas of research are family economics, law and economics, and public choice. I am also currently a Law & Economics Fellows Advisor for the International Center for Law & Economics, and I serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Markets & Morality.
Research Publications
"The Fertility Gap and Economic Freedom" (with Lyman R. Stone), 2024 in Contemporary Economic Policy.
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"The Supply and Demand of Marital Contracts: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage" (with Rachael Behr and Kacey Reeves West), 2023 in Public Choice.
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"Bargaining over Beauty: The Economics of Renaissance Art Contracts" (with Ennio E. Piano), 2023 in the Journal of Law and Economics.
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"Contracting Creativity" (with Ennio E. Piano), 2023 in the European Review of Economic History.
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"Autocratic Family Policy," 2022 in Constitutional Political Economy.​
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"The Family and the State: A Public Choice Perspective," 2022 in Review of Austrian Economics.​
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"Does Marriage Protect Mental Health? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic" (with Christos A. Makridis), 2021 in Social Science Quarterly.
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"In Persona Christi Capitis: Agency Problems When God is the Principal" (with Ennio E. Piano), 2021 in the Journal of Economics, Management, and Religion.​
"An Economic Theory of Economic Analysis: The Case of the School of Salamanca," 2019 in Public Choice.​​​​​​
Popular Articles/Podcasts
Article link: "The Place of Economics in a Classical Education" (Public Discourse)
Podcast link: "Interview with Lyman Stone and Clara Piano" (Society for Professional Economists)​