Education
Ph.D. Economics
West Virginia University,
Morgantown, West Virginia
1998
M.A. Economics
West Virginia University,
Morgantown, West Virginia
1997
B.S. Economics
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania,
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
1993
Contact Info
Phone: (314) 444-8601
Fax: (314) 444-8731
Email: tom.a.garrett@stls.frb.org
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
P.O. Box 442
St. Louis, MO 63166-0442
For media inquiries contact:
Ben C. Hardaway
mediainquiries@stls.frb.org
Office: (314) 444-8783
Cell: (314) 341-2714
Thomas A. Garrett
Working Papers
"The Distributional Burden of Instant Lottery Ticket Expenditures: An Analysis by Price Point"
Working Paper 2011-010B posted April 2011, updated January 2012
"Local Cost of Living and Demand Estimation: An Application to State Lotteries"
with Natalia Kolesnikova
Working Paper 2010-035E posted October 2010, updated January 2012
"Personal-Bankruptcy Cycles"
with Howard J. Wall
Working Paper 2010-010A posted March 2010
"Economic Freedom and Employment Growth in U.S. States"
with Russell M. Rhine
Working Paper 2010-006A posted March 2010
"The Revenue Performance of Casinos after a Smoking Ban: The Case of Illinois"
with Michael R. Pakko
Working Paper 2009-027B posted June 2009, updated March 2010
"City Business Cycles and Crime"
with Lesli S. Ott
Working Paper 2008-026B posted August 2008, updated July 2009
"Spatial Probit and the Geographic Patterns of State Lotteries"
with Cletus C. Coughlin and Rubén Hernández-Murillo
Working Paper 2003-042B posted December 2003, updated July 2004
"Input Inefficiency In Commercial Banks: A Normalized Quadratic Input Distance Approach"
with Thomas L. Marsh and Allen M. Featherstone
Working Paper 2003-036A posted November 2003