Articles
Reconsidering the Fiscal Effects of Constitutions, European Journal of Political Economy (2012)
This paper reconsiders Persson and Tabellini's (2003, 2004) analysis of the causal effect of constitution...
Women's behavioural engagement with a masculine male heightens during the fertile window: evidence for the cycle shift hypothesis (with Heather D. Flowe and Elizabeth Swords), Evolution and Human Behavior (2012)
Previous research suggests that women may alter their behaviour during the fertile window of the...
Ideology and the Growth of Goverment (with Andrew Pickering), The Review of Economics and Statistics (2011)
We analyze the impact of ideology on the size of government. In a simple model...
Working Papers
Ideology and the Growth of US State Government (with Andrew C. Pickering), IEB Working Paper (2012)
This paper hypothesizes that the impact of ideology on the size of US state governments...
A Model of Party Formation and Competition (with Daniel Ladley), University of Leicester Department of Economics Discussion Paper 10/17 (2010)
This paper investigates the behaviour of a Citizen-Candidate Model in a simple framework with many...
Reconsidering the Fiscal Effects of Constitutions, University of Leicester Department of Economics Discussion Paper 10/16 (2010)
This paper reconsiders Persson and Tabellini’s (2003,2004) analysis of the causal effect of constitution type...
Who is left-wing, and who just thinks they are?, University of Leicester Department of Economics Discussion Paper 09/23 (2010)
This paper suggests that there are consistent patterns in how different groups of individuals perceive...
Which Democracies Pay Higher Wages (with Miltiadis Makris) (2010)
The labor share of income varies markedly across the set of democracies. A model of...