Michael D. Makowsky

Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics

Assistant Professor

Clemson, SC 29634

United States

http://michaelmakowsky.com

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1.

The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2021
Amanda Y. Agan and Michael D. Makowsky
Rutgers University, Department of Economics and Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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criminal recidivism, minimum wage, earned income tax credit

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Political Economy at Any Speed: What Determines Traffic Citations?

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2009
Michael D. Makowsky and Thomas Stratmann
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and George Mason University - Buchanan Center Political Economy
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speeding, traffic fines, local public finance, vote maximizing, revenue maximizing

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To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 16-17
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2018
Michael D. Makowsky, Thomas Stratmann and Alexander T. Tabarrok
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics, George Mason University - Buchanan Center Political Economy and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Law Enforcement, Crime, Political Economy, Local Public Finance, Race

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Education, Intelligence, and Attitude Extremity

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2012
Michael D. Makowsky and Stephen Miller
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Johnson Center for Political Economy, Troy University
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Public Opinion, Voter Cognition, Attitude Extremity, Voter Education

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More Tickets, Fewer Accidents: How Cash-Strapped Towns Make for Safer Roads

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2013
Michael D. Makowsky and Thomas Stratmann
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and George Mason University - Buchanan Center Political Economy
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traffic accidents, safety, law enforcement, simultaneity

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Firearms and Lynching

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2022
Michael D. Makowsky and Patrick L. Warren
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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firearms, lynching, law enforcement, Jim Crow

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Accidental Atheists? Agent-Based Explanations for the Persistence of Religious Regionalism

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Feb 2007
Laurence R. Iannaccone and Michael D. Makowsky
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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religious regionalism, micro-macro, rational choice, emergent phenomena, social simulation, multi-agent models, agent-based models, NetLogo

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Identifying the Relationship between Length of Hospital Stay and the Probability of Readmission

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 07 May 2017
Michael D. Makowsky and Eili Y. Klein
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Johns Hopkins University - Department of Emergency Medicine
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Length of Stay, Patient Readmission, Endogeneity, Medicare, Hospital Crowding, Instrumental Variables

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Embezzlement, Whistleblowing, and Organizational Architecture: An Experimental Investigation

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 15-59
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2017
Michael D. Makowsky and Siyu Wang
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Wichita State University - W. Frank Barton School of Business - Department of Economics
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embezzlement, corruption, laboratory experiment, hierarchy, leadership

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The Evolution of Power and the Divergence of Cooperative Norms

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2015
Michael D. Makowsky and Paul Smaldino
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and University of California, Davis
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multilevel selection, institutions, cultural evolution, conflict, agent-based modeling, leadership

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The Determinants of Federal and State Enforcement of Workplace Safety Regulations: OSHA Inspections 1990-2010

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2013
Michael D. Makowsky and Juergen Jung
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Towson University - Department of Economics
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regulation, enforcement, occupational safety, institutional differences

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Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law

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Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Mar 2012
Michael D. Makowsky and Thomas Stratmann
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and George Mason University - Buchanan Center Political Economy
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Immigration, regulation, enforcement, congressional oversight, vote maximization

Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 12-16
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 05 Apr 2012
Michael D. Makowsky and Thomas Stratmann
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and George Mason University - Buchanan Center Political Economy
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Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3792
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 Apr 2012
Michael D. Makowsky and Thomas Stratmann
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and George Mason University - Buchanan Center Political Economy
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immigration, enforcement, political economy

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Emergent Extremism in a Multi-Agent Model of Religious Clubs

Economic Inquiry, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2010
Michael D. Makowsky
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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Extremism, Religion, Sacrifice and Stigma, Terrorism, Multi-Agent Computational Model

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An Agent‐Based Model of Centralized Institutions, Social Network Technology, and Revolution

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2014
Michael D. Makowsky and Jared Rubin
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics
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preference falsification, revolution, protest, network technology, agent-based model

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Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2010
Jason Anthony Aimone, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Michael D. Makowsky and Jared Rubin
Baylor University - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Department of Economics, Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics
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Endogenous Group Formation, Laboratory Experiment, Free Riding, Public Goods Game, Voluntary Contribution Mechanism, Sacrifice, Unproductive Costs

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Innovation, Price Dispersion, and Emergent Increasing Returns to Scale

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Aug 2007
David M. Levy and Michael D. Makowsky
George Mason University - Center for Study of Public Choice and Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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innovation, increasing returns to scale, price dispersion, search

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Lame Duck Law Enforcement

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2023
Shannon R. Graham and Michael D. Makowsky
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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sheriffs, elections, revenue-motivated law enforcement, lame duck

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Religion, Clubs, and Emergent Social Divides

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 07 May 2010
Michael D. Makowsky
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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Increasing Returns to Scale, Price Dispersion, and the Distribution of Returns to Innovation

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2013
Michael D. Makowsky and David M. Levy
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and George Mason University - Center for Study of Public Choice
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Patents, Endogenous Growth, Increasing Returns to Scale, Price Dispersion, Search, Heterogeneous Agents

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Political Costs and Fiscal Benefits: The Political Economy of Residential Property Value Assessment

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Aug 2010
Michael D. Makowsky and Shane Sanders
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Nicholls State University - Department of Finance and Economics
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Property Taxes, Local Public Finance, Property Appraisal

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Playing with Other People’s Money: Contributions to Public Goods by Trustees

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Sep 2012
Michael D. Makowsky, Wafa Hakim Orman and Sandra J. Peart
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics, University of Alabama in Huntsville - College of Business and University of Richmond - Jepson School of Leadership Studies
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Laboratory Experiment, Free Riding, Public Goods Game, Voluntary Contribution Mechanism, Trustees

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The Wages of Irregular Tasks: Workers’ Compensation Benefits and Occupational Misclassification

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 02 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Michael D. Makowsky and Kelsey Roberts-Bacon
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and The Lewin Group
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Workers’ Compensation, Compensating wage differentials, fatal accidents, irregular tasks, OSHA

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A Theory of Liberal Churches

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Feb 2010
Michael D. Makowsky
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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Voting For Crooks

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Sep 2022
Michael D. Makowsky, Wafa Hakim Orman, Cory Simpkins and Tran Luu
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics, University of Alabama in Huntsville - College of Business, Miami University of Ohio - Department of Economics and University of Alabama in Huntsville
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The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism

NBER Working Paper No. w25116
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 01 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2023
Amanda Agan and Michael D. Makowsky
Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Department of Economics and Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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Monopsony and Local Religious Clubs: Evidence from Indonesia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16999
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 15 May 2024
Peter Brummund and Michael D. Makowsky
University of Alabama - Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies and Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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monopsony, imperfect competition, club goods, religion

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Lame Duck Law Enforcement

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 04 Dec 2023
Michael D. Makowsky and Shannon Losak
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Clemson University
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sheriffs, Elections, lame duck, arrests

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Local Government Dependence on Criminal Justice Revenue and Emerging Constraints

Annual Review of Criminology, Vol. 4, pp. 311-330, 2021, Vol. 4, pp. 311-330
Posted: 03 Feb 2021
Shannon R. Graham and Michael D. Makowsky
Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics and Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics

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