Working Papers

• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004

2008

• Fayissa, Bichaka, and Paulos Gutema. "A Health Production Function for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)." August 2008. [ Article]
  
  
• Givens, Gregory E. "Unemployment Insurance in a Sticky-Price Model with Worker Moral Hazard." July 2008. [ Article]
  
  
• Berhanu, Wassie, David Colman, and Bichaka Fayissa. "Diversification and Livelihood Sustainability in a Semi-Arid Environment: A Case Study from Southern Ethiopia." July 2008. [ Article]
  
  
• Eff, E. Anthon. "Cost Indices for Tennessee Local Education Providers: A Teacher Cost Approach." June 2008. [ Article]
  
  
• Fayissa, Bichaka, Christian Nsiah, and Prathibha V. Joshi. "Perceived Financial Risk and Divergence in the Economic Growth of Sub-Saharan African Countries." April 2008. [ Article]
  
  
• Eff, E. Anthon and Malcolm M. Dow. "Do Markets Promote Prosocial Behavior? Evidence from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample." April 2008. [ Article]
  
  
• Fayissa, Bichaka and Christian Nsiah. "The Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth and Development in Africa." February 2008. [ Article]
  
  
• Tadasse, Badassa, Bichaka Fayissa, and Andrew McColley. "Does a Unilateral Policy Change Promote Trade? The Case of African Growth and Opportunity Act". January 2008. [ Article]
  
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2007

• Tadasse, Badassa, and Bichaka Fayissa. "Assessing the Impact of Development Cooperation: the Case of African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and U.S. Imports from Sub-Saharan Africa." December 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Nunley, John M. "The Effects of Household Income Volatility on Divorce." September 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Nunley, John M. "Inflation and Other Aggregate Determinants of the Trend in U.S. Divorce Rates since the 1960s." September 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Fayissa, Bichaka, Christian Nsiah, and Badassa Tadasse. "The Impact of Tourism on Economic Growth and Development in Africa." August 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Klein, Christopher C. "Causality Tests for Public School Performance and Funding." August 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Klein, Christopher C. "Productivity Growth in Telecommunications: The Case of Tennessee." August 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Klein, Christopher C. "The Economics of Time as a Resource." August 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Klein, Christopher C. "Anticompetitive Litigation and Antitrust Liability." August 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Seals, R. Alan. "Are Gangs an Alternative to Legitimate Employment? Investigating the Impact of Labor Market Effects on Gang Affiliation." August 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Givens, Gregory E. "Unemployment, Imperfect Risk Sharing, and the Monetary Business Cycle." July 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Penn, David A. "Estimating Missing Values from the General Social Survey: An Application of Multiple Imputation." June 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Penn, David A. "Financial Well-Being in an Urban Area: An Application of Multiple Imputation." June 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Penn, David A., and Reuben Kyle. "The Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship: A Reward for Past Achievement or Motivator for Future Performance?" June 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Zietz, Joachim, Emily N. Zietz, and G. Stacy Sirmans. "Determinants of House Prices: A Quantile Regression Approach." May 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Klein, Christopher C. "Cost and Production Duality with Time Utilization of Capital." April 2007. [ Article ]
  
  
• Klein, Christopher C. "Efficiency versus Effectiveness: Interpreting Education Production Studies." April 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Fowler, Stuart J., and Bichaka Fayissa. "Public Capital Spending Shocks and the Price of Investment: Evidence from a Panel of Countries." April 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Seals, R. Alan, and John Nunley. "The Effects of Inflation and Demographic Change on Property Crime: A Structural Time-Series Approach." April 2007. [ Article]
  
  
• Eff, E. Anthon, and Christa D. Jensen. "The Integration of Periodic Markets in Mayan Guatemala: A Gravity Approach." April 2007. [ Article]
  
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2006

• Zietz, Joachim, and R. Alan Seals. "Genetically Modified Maize, Biodiversity, and Subsistence Farming in Mexico." November 2006. [ Article]
  
  
• Givens, Gregory E., and Michael K. Salemi. "Generalized Method of Moments and Inverse Control." June 2006. [ Article]
  
  
• DePrince, Albert E. Jr. "A Technical Note on a Direct Estimate of the Significance of Bias in Forecasts." March 2006. [ Article]
  
  
• Givens, Gregory E. "Revisiting the Delegation Problem in a Sticky Price and Wage Economy." February 2006. [ Article]
  
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2005

• Eff, E. Anthon. "Migration Data and Matrix Methods: Deriving the Network of U.S. Central Places." September 2005. [ Article]
  
  
• Fowler, Stuart J. "Income Inequality, Monetary Policy, and the Business Cycle." August 2005. [ Article]
  
  
• Penn, David A. "Financial Well-Being in an Urban Setting: An Application of Multiple Imputation." July 2005. [ Article]
  
  
• Penn, David A. "Economic Recovery and Growth in Middle Tennessee." July 2005. [ Article]
  
  
• Penn, David A. "Determinants of Self-Reported Financial Security for Oklahoma County Households: An Application of Multiple Imputation." July 2005. [ Article]
  
  
• Zietz, Joachim. "Detecting Neglected Parameter Heterogeneity with Chow Tests." March 2005. [ Article]
  
  
• Fowler, Stuart J. "Fiscal Spending Shocks and the Price of Investment: Evidence from a Panel of Countries." February 2005. [ Article]
  
  
• DePrince, Albert E. Jr. "Impact of the IBBEA on the Structure of the U.S. Bank System: 1993-2003." January 2005. [ Article]
  
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2004

• Baum, Charles L. "The Effects of Employment while Pregnant on Health at Birth." September 2004. [ Article]
  
  
• Baum, Charles L. "The Effect of Government-Mandated Family Leave on Employer Family Leave Policies." September 2004. [ Article]
  
  
• Eff, E. Anthon. "Spatial, Cultural, and Ecological Autocorrelation in U.S. Regional Data." September 2004. [ Article]
  
  
• Zietz, Joachim. "Dynamic Programming: An Introduction by Example." September 2004. [ Article]
  
  
• Penn, David A., and Joachim Zietz. "The Development of Water Rights in Colorado." September 2004. [ Article]
  
  
• Eff, E. Anthon. "A Flexible-Weights School Effectiveness Index." September 2004. [ Article]
  
  
• Fowler, Stuart J., and Eric R. Young. "The Acquisition of Skills over the Life-Cycle." April 2004. [ Article]
  
  
• Eff, E. Anthon. "Spatial and Cultural Autocorrelation in International Datasets." February 2004. [ Article]
  
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