Franklin G Mixon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 277754 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Franklin G Mixon |
| NOMBRES | Franklin G |
| APELLIDO | Mixon |
| FIRMA | MIXON F G |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbus State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9998-7412 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Is Mr. Smith Afraid to Leave Washington? Congressional District Gun Homicides and Legislator Absenteeism
The impact of violent crime has been shown to extend to business confidence, the timing and types of employment, and investments in human capital. The impact of violent crime on human behavior also potentially touches upon whether U.S. Representatives perform their legislative responsibilities or instead engage in shirking behavior. More specifically, the current political debate surrounding violent crime in Washington, D.C., gives rise to an int…
The price of power
This study examines the market for Hunter Biden’s art, with an eye toward the art’s value as a rent seeking device that benefitted Hunter and the wider Biden family. More specifically, this study asserts that the usefulness of Hunter Biden’s art sales as a rent- or transfer-seeking tool can be established in any one of three ways. First, Hunter Biden’s paintings have not generally been judged positively. In fact, the quality of his artwork has be…
The economics of everything
Overall Group and Elite Core Contributions to Scientific Worth
Dating back to at least 1975, several academic studies have produced a ranking of economics departments (faculties) in the U.S. South. In revisiting this genre of the literature, this study builds upon prior work by (1) including all of the U.S. News & World Report ‐classified national universities and colleges located in the U.S. South, which is a list that has grown considerably in recent years, and (2) examining citations to economists' prior …
Prospect Precocity and University Choice
This study examines the impact of precocity on the university choices made by college basketball prospects. More specifically, it investigates the university and coach-related factors that lead to successful recruiting of one-and-done players in order to shed light on the decision-making process that they utilize in their preparation for a professional basketball career. Probit models utilizing panel data covering the life of the NBA's collective…
The Student Evaluation of Teaching Premium for Clinical Faculty in Economics
This article uses student evaluation of teaching (SET) data for 947 faculty members affiliated with 90 U.S. colleges and universities to study the presence of a teaching quality rating premium for clinical economics faculty relative to traditional tenure-track economics faculty. Based on OLS estimation, we find this difference ranges between 3.9% and 4.8% and is robust to different econometric model specifications. Moreover, the average treatment…
Expropriation, money, and happiness
Lifespan and scientific leadership
This study investigates the potential relationship between scientific success and lifespan, with a particular focus on whether serving as President of the Royal Society is associated with a longer lifespan. Previous research has indicated that higher social status can confer health benefits, but it remains unclear whether holding leadership positions within esteemed academic organizations has a similar effect. To mitigate confounding factors, thi…
A Citations-Based Ranking of Black Economists in Academe
It has been more than 20 years since a study of the research productivity or impact of Black economists has appeared in the economics literature. This study revisits the subject, and in the process combines methodological features from each of the two prior studies. In addition to a ranking of the top 200 Black academic economists in the United States, we also examine other aspects of the data, such as the prevalence of clinical faculty and femal…
Too cool for school
A large portion of the American electorate holds contempt for elected representatives who skip floor votes. As a result, political challengers, and the national political media in the U.S., rarely miss a chance to inform the electorate of the shirking behavior of its representatives. New research suggests that, in 2020, the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives may have developed protection, albeit temporary, to legislators who engage i…
Seasons, Sharks, and Local Control of the Surfing Commons
This study extends prior research on the relationship between surf break quality and the degree of localism exhibited by surf gangs in at least three ways. First, it adopts Surfline.com's latest data on California's surf breaks in order to re-examine whether or not the level of localism displayed by California's surf gangs is a positive function of the quality and crowdedness of surf breaks. Second, it is the first to explore the relationship bet…
When forgiveness beats permission
The concept of the "clinical professor" - sometimes referred to as a "professor of practice," or something similar - is in widespread use in academe. Economics and business disciplines all now entertain the prospect of teaching specialists. This study extends prior research on economics scholarship at liberal arts colleges by examining whether clinical economics faculty are invested in a program of research. After discussing conceptual arguments …
The Relative Impact of Historically Black College and University Economics Departments and Economists
This study examines citation patterns associated with the research being done by the current generation of economists affiliated with America's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In terms of mean citations, we report that the economics department at Bethune-Cookman University ranks first, followed by South Carolina State University and Tennessee State University. In terms of total citations, we find that Howard University ranks…
Gender discrimination in the business school’s C-suite? Evidence from aggregate decomposition approaches
Workplace discrimination continues to at least be perceived as a problem by faculty and staff in higher education. The current study extends the academic literature in this area by exploring the possibility of gender discrimination in the wages of academic deans. Using data on deans’ salaries from more than 200 colleges and schools of business in the U.S., we focus our analysis on aggregate decompositions from both the usual Oaxaca-Blinder decomp…
Business cycles and tourism imports in the South Pacific
The demand for international tourism in Australia and New Zealand is vital to the South Pacific’s tourism-reliant islands. However, at the time of this study these two countries find themselves in precarious economic situations. The question addressed by this study is, will tourism imports in these two countries pick up on the back of economic recovery? We answer this question using time-difference analysis and the newly developed Hamilton filter…
Recognition and longevity
Using data for 387 Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, or physiology/medicine from 1901 to 2000, this study focuses on the relation between the timing of prestigious awards and human longevity. In particular, it uses a linear regression model to examine how a winner’s longevity is affected by (1) the age at which the prestigious award is won, (2) the total number of prestigious awards collected, and (3) the delay between the Nobel Prize wo…
Who revolts? Income, political freedom and the Egyptian revolution
The Marginal Impact of a Publication on Citations, and Its Effect on Academic Pay
The economics of Puritanism’s treatment of bewitchment
Property confiscation and the intergenerational transmission of education in post-1948 Eastern Europe
Introduction to the Symposium on the Economics of Religion
This article introduces the six essays comprising this symposium on the economics of religion. The essay by Carvalho presents an economic model highlighting the “social role” of sacrifice in religious clubs that extends the seminal research on the clubs nature of religious groups. Next, the essay by Gill demonstrates how land use restrictions by government can work to infringe upon religious liberty, and why such restrictions may be implemented b…
Quality Choice and Product Differentiation in Monopoly Theory
French engineer and transport economist Jules Dupuit (1804–1866) conjectured more than 150 years ago that, in the context of a three‐part tariff concerning French railroads, a discriminating monopolist will find it most profitable to distort product (service) quality at each of the two ends of the quality spectrum in order to prevent consumers in the middle class (i.e., the second of three classes) from defecting to either end (i.e., first or thi…
The Economics of Conversion and Salvation
Why would Colonial America’s Puritan theologians introduce a product differentiation-related doctrinal change—the Halfway Covenant—that would lower the price of eternal salvation to many of its potential congregants (believers)? Following Hébert, Tollison, and Mixon, this study argues that the Halfway Covenant can be viewed, at least in part, as a market response by Puritan theologians to doctrinal competition—one that would increase Puritan chur…
Minority Faculty Hiring Power in Academe
This paper investigates whether minorities in academe exercise bargaining power in a way that influences hiring of other minority faculty. We develop a stylized model that shows how minorities influence the hiring of other minorities, taking into account the hiring of majority faculty. We postulate that such behavior is similar to the behavior of insider workers in the context of the insider-outsider literature
The Roles of Economic Freedom and Regulatory Quality in Creating a Favorable Environment for Investment in Energy R & D , Infrastructure, and Capacity
Sustainable investment in energy requires a favorable economic and regulatory environment. A random effects model ( PLS estimations), using a four‐year panel, reveals the growth rate in real per capita GDP for OECD nations as an increasing function of both economic freedom and regulatory quality. These results underscore the critical roles that economic freedom and regulatory quality play, directly and indirectly, in creating an environment condu…
Has Legislative Television Changed Legislator Behavior
Loyal political cartels and committee assignments in Congress
Rent seeking and hidden in-kind resource distortion
Religiosity and the political economy of the Salem witch trials
Salem Village, both before and through the witchcraft trials, was a religion-based community, allowing its minister to exert a level of political–economic control over its citizens. During the height of the witchcraft episode, there was an increased demand for ministerial services (salvation) in the Salem area. Recent research has argued that the minister used the witchcraft episode to maintain and build upon personal and corporate wealth. In the…
The Retention of State Level Concealed Handgun Laws
Public choice and the EPA
What Can Regulators Regulate
An examination of urbanwarming trendsin the United States offers a statistical model that points out that theurban areascited most heavily by theEnvironmental Protection Agencyfor violatingozone standardsare not the areas with the greatest warming trends. After accounting for environmental and geometric characteristics of the urban landscape, a negative relationship is found between ozone standard violations (by an urban center) and a measure for…
Minority Faculty Hiring Power in Academe
This paper investigates whether minorities in academe exercise bargaining power in a way that influences hiring of other minority faculty. We develop a stylized model that shows how minorities influence the hiring of other minorities, taking into account the hiring of majority faculty. We postulate that such behavior is similar to the behavior of insider workers in the context of the insider-outsider literature
Public Choice and the EPA, 20 Years Later
Nearly 20 years ago, Mixon (1995) found that urban warming is positively related to the probability of an EPA citation for a violation of carbon emissions standards, whereas lobbying effort reduces the probability of such a citation. This study revisits the Mixon (1995) framework by using data on ozone violations. The results indicate that EPA citations for ozone violations are not significantly related to lobbying effort
False advertising and experience goods
Are Congressional Black Caucus Members More Reliable? Loyalty Screening and Committee Assignments of Newly Elected Legislators
As previous research has suggested, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) demonstrates the characteristics of a well-functioning vote-producing cartel in both the degree and uniformity to which it supports the leadership of the Democratic Party in the U.S. House of Representatives. As previous work has pointed out, this cartel is, therefore, rewarded by House Democrats through selection for service on "important" committees at the beginning of eac…
Does Legislative Television Alter the Relationship Between Voters and Politicians
Using a simultaneous probit model, the present study examines differences in potential viewership of federal legislative television across the 50 states. A unique 1986 survey of C-SPAN2 subscribership provided by Crain and Goff (1988) is employed. With data from the 99th Congress, the estimates suggest that senators with great potential constituent audiences will exhibit an increased likelihood of employing parliamentary devices (such as the fili…
Anti-Abortion Activities and the Market for Abortion Services
Cross-section data for the US are used to estimate the effects of anti-abortion activity on the demand and supply of abortion services in 1992. Empirical results show that anti-abortion activity had a signi~cant negative impact on both the demand and supply of abortion services. Using estimates from a two-stage least-squares estimation of demand and supply, anti-abortion activities (measured as picketing with physical contact or blocking of patie…
Gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act of 1982
Too cool for school
A large portion of the American electorate holds contempt for elected representatives who skip floor votes. As a result, political challengers, and the national political media in the U.S., rarely miss a chance to inform the electorate of the shirking behavior of its representatives. New research suggests that, in 2020, the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives may have developed protection, albeit temporary, to legislators who engage i…
The Relative Impact of Historically Black College and University Economics Departments and Economists
This study examines citation patterns associated with the research being done by the current generation of economists affiliated with America's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In terms of mean citations, we report that the economics department at Bethune-Cookman University ranks first, followed by South Carolina State University and Tennessee State University. In terms of total citations, we find that Howard University ranks…
The Roles of Economic Freedom and Regulatory Quality in Creating a Favorable Environment for Investment in Energy R & D , Infrastructure, and Capacity
Sustainable investment in energy requires a favorable economic and regulatory environment. A random effects model ( PLS estimations), using a four‐year panel, reveals the growth rate in real per capita GDP for OECD nations as an increasing function of both economic freedom and regulatory quality. These results underscore the critical roles that economic freedom and regulatory quality play, directly and indirectly, in creating an environment condu…
Pivotal power brokers
Fugitives as fish
This note examines the property rights aspects of bounty hunting, and suggests that fugitives within the criminal justice system represent a common property resource. Economic theory might predict that this resource would be over exploited, perhaps resulting in industry profits being driven to zero. It is argued, however, that, in addition to regulation, recently developed concepts regarding uncertainty and heterogeneity of exploitation skills li…
Legislative Television as an Institutional Entry Barrier
AFDC Payments and Illegitimacy Ratios
This paper develops a rational choice model of the fertility of single women in the presence of government transfers. Evidence is presented which suggests that real AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) bene~ts leads to higher rates of illegitimacy. In fact, the unbiased parameter estimate which we present is six times larger than those estimates using OLS (Caudill and Mixon 1993). Also, the point elasticity estimate of real public benef…
Union Influence and Right-to-Work Law Passage
Urban and labor economists have examined macro and micro effects of the passage of right-to-work laws in various states. These laws prohibit unions from negotiating bargains that require new and previous hires to join the union. The results have been suggestive, pointing out that cost-of-living indices are dramatically influenced by the presence of unionized workers.This analysis describes the economic and political evolution necessary for the le…
Union Influence and Right-to-Work Law Passage
Urban and labor economists have examined macro and micro effects of the passage of right-to-work laws in various states. These laws prohibit unions from negotiating bargains that require new and previous hires to join the union. The results have been suggestive, pointing out that cost-of-living indices are dramatically influenced by the presence of unionized workers.This analysis describes the economic and political evolution necessary for the le…
Rent seeking and hidden in-kind resource distortion
What Can Regulators Regulate
An examination of urbanwarming trendsin the United States offers a statistical model that points out that theurban areascited most heavily by theEnvironmental Protection Agencyfor violatingozone standardsare not the areas with the greatest warming trends. After accounting for environmental and geometric characteristics of the urban landscape, a negative relationship is found between ozone standard violations (by an urban center) and a measure for…
Advertisement size and goods-buyer characteristics
This article provides empirical tests of hypotheses developed by Phillip Nelson and others within the economics of information literature since 1961. Specifically, this study provides empirical justification of Nelson's hypothesis regarding the size of advertisements for various types of goods, such as search goods, experience goods, and credence goods. Buyer differences (income, mobility) are also employed in order to test the robustness of thes…
Public choice and the EPA
Congressional Term Limitations
An examination of the early writings of British policymaker Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) points out that his analysis of an artificial identification of interests in policy prescriptions serves as a precursor to modern ideas on the subject of legislative term limits. His work supports the writings of economists who argue that the private interests of public policymakers often diverge from those of the electorate, or the public interest. By giving l…
Gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act of 1982
How robust is the rationality assumption in economics? A statistical test based on student grade distributions
This note re-addresses the question of the rationality of economic actors in a new setting. We examine the distribution of final course grades for a "Principles of Economics Class" in an effort to draw conclusions about rational student work effort. Based on the concepts of the opportunity cost of time, the relative reward for earning various grades (based on university codes for determining grade points) and the concept of rationality, we expect…
AFDC Payments and Illegitimacy Ratios
This paper develops a rational choice model of the fertility of single women in the presence of government transfers. Evidence is presented which suggests that real AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) bene~ts leads to higher rates of illegitimacy. In fact, the unbiased parameter estimate which we present is six times larger than those estimates using OLS (Caudill and Mixon 1993). Also, the point elasticity estimate of real public benef…
Anti-Abortion Activities and the Market for Abortion Services
Cross-section data for the US are used to estimate the effects of anti-abortion activity on the demand and supply of abortion services in 1992. Empirical results show that anti-abortion activity had a signi~cant negative impact on both the demand and supply of abortion services. Using estimates from a two-stage least-squares estimation of demand and supply, anti-abortion activities (measured as picketing with physical contact or blocking of patie…
Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon and Gordon L. Brady, Government
The Retention of State Level Concealed Handgun Laws
Loyal political cartels and committee assignments in Congress
Formal human capital attainment of career legislators in the U.S. Congress
Legislative Television as an Institutional Entry Barrier
Does Legislative Television Alter the Relationship Between Voters and Politicians
Using a simultaneous probit model, the present study examines differences in potential viewership of federal legislative television across the 50 states. A unique 1986 survey of C-SPAN2 subscribership provided by Crain and Goff (1988) is employed. With data from the 99th Congress, the estimates suggest that senators with great potential constituent audiences will exhibit an increased likelihood of employing parliamentary devices (such as the fili…
Fugitives as fish
This note examines the property rights aspects of bounty hunting, and suggests that fugitives within the criminal justice system represent a common property resource. Economic theory might predict that this resource would be over exploited, perhaps resulting in industry profits being driven to zero. It is argued, however, that, in addition to regulation, recently developed concepts regarding uncertainty and heterogeneity of exploitation skills li…
Has Legislative Television Changed Legislator Behavior
Vertical and Horizontal Trust Networks in Bureaucracies
Pivotal power brokers
Stadium size, ticket allotments and home field advantage in college football
This study builds on a conceptual framework that explores of the relationship between relative fan attendance, stadium size and home field advantage in college football. We extend the conceptual model by providing empirical estimates of the impact that various ticket allotment arrangements and home stadium size have on the probability of winning in college football. The Auburn–Alabama rivalry (the “Iron Bowl”) provides a unique case given that th…
Pivotal power brokers
Are Congressional Black Caucus Members More Reliable? Loyalty Screening and Committee Assignments of Newly Elected Legislators
As previous research has suggested, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) demonstrates the characteristics of a well-functioning vote-producing cartel in both the degree and uniformity to which it supports the leadership of the Democratic Party in the U.S. House of Representatives. As previous work has pointed out, this cartel is, therefore, rewarded by House Democrats through selection for service on "important" committees at the beginning of eac…
False advertising and experience goods
Religiosity and the political economy of the Salem witch trials
Salem Village, both before and through the witchcraft trials, was a religion-based community, allowing its minister to exert a level of political–economic control over its citizens. During the height of the witchcraft episode, there was an increased demand for ministerial services (salvation) in the Salem area. Recent research has argued that the minister used the witchcraft episode to maintain and build upon personal and corporate wealth. In the…
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