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Every Day is Earth Day: Evidence on the Long-term Impact of Environmental Voluntarism (2023, published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economic ). (with Vivek Moorthy)Tax Evasion, Efficiency, and Bunching in the Presence of Enforcement Notches (2023, published in International Tax and Public Finance )Impure Impact Giving: Theory and Evidence (2021, published in the Journal of Political Economy ) (with Mark Wilhelm)Is Fertility a Leading Economic Indicator? (2021, published in Economic Journal ) (with Kasey Buckles and Steven Lugauer)Religious Institutions and Economic Wellbeing in Melissa S. Kearney and Ron Haskins, eds., How Cultural Factors Shape Children’s Economic Outcomes, Future of Children 30, no. 1 (2020).Beyond the Classroom: the Implications of School Vouchers for Church Finances (2018, Review of Economics and Statistics )The Incidental Effects of School Condom Distribution Programs (2018, with Kasey Buckles, published in the Journal of Policy Analysis & Management )Where Does Voucher Funding Go? How Large-Scale Subsidy Programs Affect Private-School Revenue, Enrollment, and Prices (2016, with Kevin Rinz, published in the Journal of Public Economics )Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout (2016, with Jonathan Gruber and Alan Gerber, published in the British Journal of Political Science )Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test (2014, published in the Journal of Human Resources )Economics, Religion, and Culture: A Brief Introduction (2014, with Daniel Chen, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization )Public Goods, Hidden Income, and Tax Evasion: Some Non-standard Results from the Warm-Glow Model (2014, published in the Journal of Development Economics )The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws (2014, published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization )Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal (2013, published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy )Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers (2013, with Kasey Buckles, published in the Review of Economics & Statistics )The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation (June 2010, with Elizabeth Ananat, forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics ) code and data Rethinking the Study of Religious Market (October 2009) drafted for the Handbook of the Economics of Religion (Rachel McCleary, editor)Diversity and Crowd-out: A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving (April 2007, published in the Journal of Public Economics )The Church vs. The Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition? (July 2006, with Jonathan Gruber, published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics )Race and Charitable Church Activity (August 2007, published in Economic Inquiry )Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out During the Great Depression (May 2005, with Jonathan Gruber, published in the Journal of Public Economics )Are Church and State Substitutes? Evidence from the 1996 Welfare Reform (October 2004, published in the Journal of Public Economics )