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Thomas A. Garrett

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Published Papers

"Red Ink in the Rearview Mirror: Local Fiscal Conditions and the Issuance of Traffic Tickets"
with Gary A. Wagner
FORTHCOMING: Journal of Law and Economics
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"War and Pestilence as Labor Market Shocks: U.S. Manufacturing Wage Growth 1914-1919"
FORTHCOMING: Economic Inquiry
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"Evaluating State Tax Revenue Variability: A Portfolio Approach"
FORTHCOMING: Applied Economics Letters
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"Do Casinos Export Bankruptcy?"
with Mark W. Nichols
Journal of Socio-Economics, August 2008, 37(4), pp. 1481-94.

"Why People Choose Negative Expected Return Assets - An Empirical Examination of a Utility Theoretic Explanation"
with Nalinaksha Bhattacharyya
Applied Economics, January 2008, 40(1), pp. 27-34.

"Regional Disparities in the Spatial Correlation of State Income Growth"
with Gary A. Wagner and David C. Wheelock
Annals of Regional Science, September 2007, 41(3), pp. 601-18.

More Published Papers

Articles in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Publications

Review

Regional Economic Development

The Regional Economist

Central Banker

Bridges

National Economic Trends

Other Publications, Book Reviews, and Edited Volumes

"The Political Economy of FEMA Disaster Payments"
with Russell S. Sobel
In: Charles Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Kluwer, 2003.

"Betting on the Future: Policy Issues and Implications for the West Virginia Lottery"
with Russell S. Sobel
The West Virginia Public Affairs Reporter, The Institute for Public Affairs, West Virginia University, Spring 1999.

"Earmarking Property Tax Revenues for Educations: Now You See Them Now You Don't"
with Robert Lawson
Perspectives on Current Issues, The Buckeye Institute, April 1998.

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Working Papers

2008-020A "Institutions and Government Growth: A Comparison of the 1890s and the 1930s" - June 2008
with Russell M. Rhine
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2008-004B "Income and Lottery Sales: Transfers Trump Income from Work and Wealth" - January 2008, Revised May 2008
with Cletus C. Coughlin
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2007-042B "Inter-temporal Differences in the Income Elasticity of Demand for Lottery Tickets" - October 2007, Revised February 2008
with Cletus C. Coughlin
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2007-012C "Government Growth and Private Contributions to Charity" - March 2007, Revised May 2008
with Russell M. Rhine
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Education

Degree	Institution	Major	Date
Ph.D.	West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia	Economics	1998
M.A.	West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia	Economics	1997
B.S.	Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania	Economics	1993