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Publications

by alumni of

Lehigh University → College of Business and Economics → Economics Department

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Working papers

2025

  1. Kihwan Bae & Morris M. Kleiner & Conor Norris & Edward J. Timmons, 2025, "Analyzing the Effects of Occupational Licensing on Earnings Inequality in the United States," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 33732, May.

2024

  1. Averett, Susan L. & Biener, Adam & Ogrokhina, Olena, 2024, "Equal Pay for Better Health: The Health Cost of the Gender Wage Gap," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 17277, Sep.
  2. Shishir Shakya & Tulasiram Nepal & Edward Timmons, 2024, "Anti-Maintenance of Certification and Elderly Physician Supply," Working Papers, Department of Economics, Appalachian State University, number 24-02.

2023

  1. Ilya Kukaev & Edward J. Timmons, 2023, "Certifiably employable?: The effects of occupational regulation on unemployment duration," Working Papers, Department of Economics, West Virginia University, number 23-02, Feb.
  2. Kihwan Bae & Edward Timmons, 2023, "Now You Can Take It with You: Effects of Occupational Credential Recognition on Labor Market Outcomes," Working Papers, Department of Economics, West Virginia University, number 23-03, Mar.

2022

  1. Darwyyn Deyo & Kofi Ampaabeng & Conor Norris & Edward Timmons, 2022, "Public interest or policy diffusion: Analyzing the effects of massage therapist municipal licensing," Working Papers, Department of Economics, West Virginia University, number 22-02, Sep.

2021

  1. Norris, Conor & Timmons, Edward, 2021, "Man vs. Machine: A Novel Evaluation of Data Analytics Using Occupational Licensing as a Case Study," Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center, number 11018, Mar.

2018

  1. Timmons, Edward & Norris, Conor, 2018, "Restoring Vision to Consumers and Competition to the Marketplace: Analyzing the Effects of Required Prescription Release," Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center, number 07810, Feb.

2017

  1. Adam I. Biener & John Cawley & Chad Meyerhoefer, 2017, "The Medical Care Costs of Youth Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 23682, Aug.
  2. Timmons, Edward & Konieczny, Catherine, 2017, "Untangling Hair Braider Deregulation in Virginia: A Case Study Approach," Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center, number 07422, Nov.

2016

  1. Timmons, Edward & Norris, Conor, 2016, "CLIA Waiver Pharmacy Growth: How Does Broadening Scope of Practice Affect the Pharmacist Labor Market?," Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center, number 05185, Oct.
  2. Timmons, Edward, 2016, "Healthcare License Turf Wars: The Effects of Expanded Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Scope of Practice on Medicaid Patient Access," Working Papers, George Mason University, Mercatus Center, number 06858, Jan.

2013

  1. Mario Pagliero & Edward Timmons, 2013, "Occupational Regulation in the European Legal Market," Working papers, Former Department of Economics and Public Finance "G. Prato", University of Torino, number 27, Feb.

2007

  1. Todd A. Watkins & Lolita Paff, 2007, "Absorptive Capacity and R&D Tax Policy: Are In-house and External Contract R&D Substitutes or Complements?," Working Papers, National University of Ireland Galway, Department of Economics, number 116, revised 2007.

Journal articles

2026

  1. Jonathan E. Leightner & Kacey Axon & Simon Medcalfe, 2026, "The Correlation Between Income Inequality and per Capita GDP in Georgia’s Counties," JRFM, MDPI, volume 19, issue 3, pages 1-23, March.

2025

  1. Kihwan Bae & Edward Timmons & Protik Nandy, 2025, "Seeing is believing: The effects of optometrist scope of practice expansion," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, volume 43, issue 1, pages 135-160, January, DOI: 10.1111/coep.12645.
  2. Shishir Shakya & Alicia Plemmons & Kihwan Bae & Edward Timmons, 2025, "The pharmacist will see you now: Pharmacist prescriptive authority and access to care," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, volume 43, issue 1, pages 161-174, January, DOI: 10.1111/coep.12647.
  3. Edward J. Timmons, 2025, "Symposium introduction: Is certificate‐of‐need needed?," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, volume 92, issue 1, pages 3-5, July, DOI: 10.1002/soej.12769.

2024

  1. Adam I. Biener & Chad Meyerhoefer & John Cawley, 2024, "Non‐classical measurement error in instrumental variables estimation: An application to the medical care costs of obesity," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., volume 33, issue 11, pages 2558-2574, November, DOI: 10.1002/hec.4882.
  2. Justin Ehrlich & Simon Medcalfe & Shane Sanders, 2024, "Constructing and validating a best-fit economic well-being index for urban U.S. counties: a Tiebout model approach," Public Choice, Springer, volume 199, issue 1, pages 45-63, April, DOI: 10.1007/s11127-023-01055-y.
  3. Simon Medcalfe & Shane Sanders, 2024, "Empirical and computational approaches to collective choice: introduction to a special issue," Public Choice, Springer, volume 199, issue 1, pages 1-5, April, DOI: 10.1007/s11127-024-01156-2.
  4. Andres Marroquin & Edward J. Timmons, 2024, "Economic values, support of labor unions, and salience of occupational licensing in the European Union," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, volume 44, issue 4, pages 1338-1347.
  5. Shakya, Shishir & Nepal, Tulasiram & Mathew, Manu M. & Timmons, Edward J., 2024, "Anti-Maintenance of Certification laws and older physician supply," Economics Letters, Elsevier, volume 244, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.112001.
  6. Conor Norris & Edward Timmons & Ethan Kelley & Troy Carneal, 2024, "Introducing a new state-level occupational licensing requirement database," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, volume 13, issue 2, pages 182-199, January, DOI: 10.1108/JEPP-05-2023-0047.
  7. Jie Chen & Chad D. Meyerhoefer & Edward J. Timmons, 2024, "The effects of dental hygienist autonomy on dental care utilization," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., volume 33, issue 8, pages 1726-1747, August, DOI: 10.1002/hec.4832.
  8. Ilya Kukaev & Edward J. Timmons, 2024, "Certifiably employable? Occupational regulation and unemployment duration," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, volume 90, issue 4, pages 1035-1059, April, DOI: 10.1002/soej.12677.

2023

  1. Simon K. Medcalfe & Catherine P. Slade & Wendy Habegger, 2023, "Religion as a social determinant of women's cancer screening: Evidence from state level data for policy and resource allocation," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, volume 82, issue 3, pages 263-279, May, DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12507.
  2. Catherine P. Slade & Simon K. Medcalfe & C. Kevin Fortner & Kristin V. Walker, 2023, "Residential Segregation as a Policy Priority to Address Health Disparities: a Multilevel Analysis," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, volume 18, issue 4, pages 1715-1735, August, DOI: 10.1007/s11482-023-10159-y.

2021

  1. Justin Ehrlich & Simon Medcalfe & Shane Sanders, 2021, "Composite Index Ranking of Economic Well-Being in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: How Prevalent are Rank Anomalies?," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, volume 157, issue 2, pages 543-562, September, DOI: 10.1007/s11205-021-02673-z.

2020

  1. Adam I. Biener & John Cawley & Chad Meyerhoefer, 2020, "The medical care costs of obesity and severe obesity in youth: An instrumental variables approach," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., volume 29, issue 5, pages 624-639, May, DOI: 10.1002/hec.4007.
  2. Simon K Medcalfe & Pardon Ndhlovu & Mark A Thompson, 2020, "Competitive balance in women’s collegiate cross country running," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 27, issue 3, pages 174-177, February, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1612027.
  3. Darwyyn Deyo & Blake Hoarty & Conor Norris & Edward Timmons, 2020, "Licensing massage therapists in the name of crime: the case of Harper v Lindsay," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, volume 10, issue 1, pages 1-14, October, DOI: 10.1108/JEPP-06-2020-0034.
  4. Conor Norris & Edward J. Timmons, 2020, "Restoring vision to consumers and competition to the marketplace: analyzing the effects of required prescription release," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, volume 57, issue 1, pages 1-19, February, DOI: 10.1007/s11149-020-09399-9.
  5. Morris M. Kleiner & Edward J. Timmons, 2020, "Occupational Licensing: Improving Access to Regulatory Information," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, volume 41, issue 4, pages 333-337, December, DOI: 10.1007/s12122-020-09314-3.

2019

  1. Edward J. Timmons & Robert J. Thornton, 2019, "There and Back Again: The De‐Licensing and Re‐Licensing of Barbers in Alabama," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, volume 57, issue 4, pages 764-790, December, DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12438.
  2. Brian J Meehan & Edward Timmons & Andrew Meehan & Ilya Kukaev, 2019, "The effects of growth in occupational licensing on intergenerational mobility," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, volume 39, issue 2, pages 1516-1528.

2018

  1. Michael T. Dugan & Simon K. Medcalfe & Sang Hyun Park, 2018, "A reconsideration of operating-financial leverage tradeoff hypothesis," Journal of Financial Economic Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, volume 10, issue 4, pages 473-483, September, DOI: 10.1108/JFEP-01-2018-0005.
  2. Simon Medcalfe, 2018, "Economic Well-Being in U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, volume 139, issue 3, pages 1147-1167, October, DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1755-5.
  3. Steven Stelk & Sang‐Hyun Park & Simon Medcalfe & Michael T. Dugan, 2018, "An additional analysis of estimation techniques for the degree of financial leverage," Review of Financial Economics, John Wiley & Sons, volume 36, issue 3, pages 220-231, July, DOI: 10.1016/j.rfe.2017.03.005.
  4. Edward Timmons & Brian Meehan & Andrew Meehan & John Hazenstab, 2018, "Assessing growth in occupational licensing of low-income occupations: 1993-2012," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, volume 7, issue 2, pages 178-218, May, DOI: 10.1108/JEPP-D-18-00006.
  5. Edward J Timmons & Anna Mills, 2018, "Bringing the Effects of Occupational Licensing into Focus: Optician Licensing in the United States," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, volume 44, issue 1, pages 69-83, January, DOI: 10.1057/eej.2016.4.

2017

  1. Simon K. Medcalfe & Mark A. Thompson, 2017, "Further evidence on the geographical concentration of venture capital investments," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, volume 10, issue 2, pages 229-235, July, DOI: 10.1007/s12076-017-0184-z.
  2. Bradley T. Ewing & Simon Medcalfe & Wennie Squires & Mark A. Thompson, 2017, "Cyclical comovements in energy-related venture capital investments," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 24, issue 15, pages 1065-1069, September, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1251548.
  3. Timmons, Edward Joseph, 2017, "The effects of expanded nurse practitioner and physician assistant scope of practice on the cost of Medicaid patient care," Health Policy, Elsevier, volume 121, issue 2, pages 189-196, DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2016.12.002.

2016

  1. Simon Medcalfe, 2016, "Are bidders in auctions anchored by their bidder number?," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 23, issue 8, pages 559-561, May, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1088133.
  2. Timmons, Edward & Hockenberry, Jason & Piette Durrance, Christine, 2016, "More Battles among Licensed Occupations: Estimating the Effects of Scope of Practice and Direct Access on the Chiropractic, Physical Therapist, and Physician Labor Market," Annals of Computational Economics, George Mason University, Mercatus Center, September.

2015

  1. John Cawley & Chad Meyerhoefer & Adam Biener & Mette Hammer & Neil Wintfeld, 2015, "Savings in Medical Expenditures Associated with Reductions in Body Mass Index Among US Adults with Obesity, by Diabetes Status," PharmacoEconomics, Springer, volume 33, issue 7, pages 707-722, July, DOI: 10.1007/s40273-014-0230-2.

2013

  1. Mario Pagliero & Edward Timmons, 2013, "Occupational Regulation in the European Legal Market," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), volume 10, issue 2, pages 243-265, August.
  2. Robert J. Thornton & Edward J. Timmons, 2013, "Licensing One of the World's Oldest Professions: Massage," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, volume 56, issue 2, pages 371-388, DOI: 10.1086/667840.

2010

  1. Edward J. Timmons & Robert J. Thornton, 2010, "The Licensing of Barbers in the USA," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, volume 48, issue 4, pages 740-757, December, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00811.x.

2009

  1. Lolita Paff & Todd A. Watkins, 2009, "What is the After-Tax Price of R&D? An Interstate Comparison," Fiscal Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, volume 30, issue 1, pages 73-101, March.
  2. Todd Watkins & Lolita Paff, 2009, "Absorptive capacity and R&D tax policy: Are in-house and external contract R&D substitutes or complements?," Small Business Economics, Springer, volume 33, issue 2, pages 207-227, August, DOI: 10.1007/s11187-007-9094-6.

2008

  1. Simon Medcalfe, 2008, "English league transfer prices: is there a racial dimension? A re-examination with new data," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 15, issue 11, pages 865-867, DOI: 10.1080/13504850600949178.
  2. Edward Timmons & Robert Thornton, 2008, "The Effects of Licensing on the Wages of Radiologic Technologists," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, volume 29, issue 4, pages 333-346, December, DOI: 10.1007/s12122-007-9035-9.

2006

  1. Simon Medcalfe & Robert J. Thornton, 2006, "Monopsony and Teachers' Salaries in Georgia," Journal of Labor Research, Transaction Publishers, volume 27, issue 4, pages 537-554, October.

2005

  1. Paff Lolita A, 2005, "State-Level R&D Tax Credits: A Firm-Level Analysis," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, volume 5, issue 1, pages 1-27, September, DOI: 10.1515/1538-0653.1272.

Chapters

2024

  1. Conor Norris & Robert Orr & Edward Timmons, 2024, "Is Deregulating the Medical Profession Just What the Doctor Ordered?," Springer Books, Springer, chapter 0, in: Clifford Winston, "Reforming Occupational Licensing in the US", DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-74349-8_3.

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