Joshua Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6890-7387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Collective Action Problems of Historic Designation
Historic districts play an essential role in preserving cultural heritage and tend to improve property values. However, the complexity of the designation process can contribute to collective action problems among stakeholders. Analyzing the text data from the top 100 populated U.S. cities' municipal codes, we develop a measure of the complexity of designation processes and further uncover the possible driving factors behind the collective action …
The Economics of External Information and Risky Behavior
Understanding risk taking is an important part of the economic analysis of human behavior. When engaging in risky behaviors, individuals rely on heuristics and external information. It is an open question as to whether external information about fluctuating risk reduces bad outcomes for risk takers. We examine this question using data from avalanche incidents in wintertime backcountry recreation. The number of people traveling in avalanche terrai…
The impact of new prison construction on the likelihood of incarceration
Prison overcrowding is a major public policy issue with roughly 2.2 million individuals currently incarcerated in the United States. In the absence of reductions in the prison population, the only way to address overcrowding are the expansion of current facilities or the construction of new prisons. Previous research has demonstrated that factors unrelated to the law can affect the decisions made by prosecutors and judges. We investigate the effe…
Measuring a contract's breadth
We use a computational linguistic algorithm to measure the topics covered in teacher contracts. Topic modeling metrics are used to assess a contract's expansiveness. Our topic, diversity measurement, is then related to the prevalence of support staff. If more specialized services are provided, then contracts should be broader as they cover more employment relationships. We confirm a strong, statistically significant relationship and, thus, have a…
Standard of Living
Presidential inauguration tourism and hotel occupancy
This article examines the impact of the inaugurations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump on hotel occupancy in the Washington DC metro area. Using daily hotel data from 2010 to 2020 and controlling for multiple other major events along with day, week, and year fixed effects, we find substantial effects of presidential inaugurations on hotel occupancy. Daily occupancy rates around the inaugurations are four to six times higher than the next largest …
The effect of exports on labour share
We distinguish the effects of export on labour share into a stand‐alone direct effect and indirect effects, which alter the marginal impact of three key determinants of labour share found in the literature. While the direct effect of export has been extensively studied, the potential indirect effects remain unexplored. We investigate both effects of exports using micro‐level Chinese firm‐level data from 1998 to 2007. We employ a fixed‐effect vary…
Institutional implant and economic stagnation
Essays on Government Growth
Homer Economicus
Homer Economicus brings together sixteen essays that use The Simpsons as the basis for a vibrant and accessible discussion of important concepts in economic theory, showing how these are at work in life in Springfield and beyond.
Why go home? Pearl Jam's ‘Home Shows’ & hotel demand
Daily hotel data is used to analyze the economic impact of Pearl Jam's Home Shows. • The concerts generated 230,000 hotel nights. • Average daily room rates increased up to $144 on concert days. • Hotel tax revenue from tourists was between $6.69 and $9.15 million. • Represents an upper bound of impact of tourism on hotel demand
Laissez-Faire Economic Policy in a World Where Gender Income Gaps Exist
Academia in Anarchy
The economic impact of city–county consolidations
Essays on Government Growth
Rent-seeking in the classroom and textbooks
Does school district and municipality border congruence matter
Research on zoning typically assumes that city planners aim to maximise housing prices with their land use decisions, either explicitly for public choice reasons or implicitly through the approval of land uses that create local net benefits. Noncongruence of school district and municipality borders severs the link between costs and benefits in the eyes of the median voter, however, which could result in excessive residential development and fisca…
Was Adam Smith Right About Religious Competition
Adam Smith famously argued that increased competition in religion would result in more religious tolerance and that the benefits of competition in the marketplace would also be seen in religious instruction when many religious sects are tolerated. We use a cross-section of a maximum of 167 countries to explore whether increased religious competition results in less governmental regulation of religion and less governmental favoritism of religion. …
Explaining the worldwide decline in the length of mandatory military service, 1970–2010
Economic Behavior, Economic Freedom, and Entrepreneurship
Expert editors add to an important field of research, the economics of entrepreneurship, and explore how institutions influence entrepreneurial behavior. This book provides comprehensive and contemporary insights into the interaction between economic behavior of firms and households, economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, and how it generates an environment with greater opportunities for growth and development for individuals, households, and pr…
The political economy of the Essential Air Service program
Economic Freedom of the World
The Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index was first produced by Gwartney, Block, and Lawson (Economic Freedom of the World: 1975–1995; 1996) and has been updated annually since. During this period, the EFW index has been cited in hundreds of academic articles. Here, we provide an accounting and description of this literature. Of 402 articles citing the EFW index, 198 used the index as an independent variable in an empirical study. Over two‐th…
Joseph Shaanan
William A. Fischel
Racial Fractionalization and School Performance
The literature on racial "peer effects" suggests that diversity improves at least some students' school performance. However, a literature in economic development posits that diversity may negatively affect school performance by undermining the efficient provision of education. This article empirically tests this claim, which we call the "public goods channel," by examining the relationship between racial diversity and student performance in Ohio…
The economic impact of city–county consolidations
Rent-seeking in the classroom and textbooks
Explaining the worldwide decline in the length of mandatory military service, 1970–2010
Racial Fractionalization and School Performance
The literature on racial "peer effects" suggests that diversity improves at least some students' school performance. However, a literature in economic development posits that diversity may negatively affect school performance by undermining the efficient provision of education. This article empirically tests this claim, which we call the "public goods channel," by examining the relationship between racial diversity and student performance in Ohio…
Institutional implant and economic stagnation
The political economy of the Essential Air Service program
The Economics of External Information and Risky Behavior
Understanding risk taking is an important part of the economic analysis of human behavior. When engaging in risky behaviors, individuals rely on heuristics and external information. It is an open question as to whether external information about fluctuating risk reduces bad outcomes for risk takers. We examine this question using data from avalanche incidents in wintertime backcountry recreation. The number of people traveling in avalanche terrai…
The impact of new prison construction on the likelihood of incarceration
Prison overcrowding is a major public policy issue with roughly 2.2 million individuals currently incarcerated in the United States. In the absence of reductions in the prison population, the only way to address overcrowding are the expansion of current facilities or the construction of new prisons. Previous research has demonstrated that factors unrelated to the law can affect the decisions made by prosecutors and judges. We investigate the effe…
Why go home? Pearl Jam's ‘Home Shows’ & hotel demand
Daily hotel data is used to analyze the economic impact of Pearl Jam's Home Shows. • The concerts generated 230,000 hotel nights. • Average daily room rates increased up to $144 on concert days. • Hotel tax revenue from tourists was between $6.69 and $9.15 million. • Represents an upper bound of impact of tourism on hotel demand
Academia in Anarchy
William A. Fischel
Racial Fractionalization and School Performance
The literature on racial "peer effects" suggests that diversity improves at least some students' school performance. However, a literature in economic development posits that diversity may negatively affect school performance by undermining the efficient provision of education. This article empirically tests this claim, which we call the "public goods channel," by examining the relationship between racial diversity and student performance in Ohio…
Economic Freedom of the World
The Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index was first produced by Gwartney, Block, and Lawson (Economic Freedom of the World: 1975–1995; 1996) and has been updated annually since. During this period, the EFW index has been cited in hundreds of academic articles. Here, we provide an accounting and description of this literature. Of 402 articles citing the EFW index, 198 used the index as an independent variable in an empirical study. Over two‐th…
Joseph Shaanan
Economic Behavior, Economic Freedom, and Entrepreneurship
Expert editors add to an important field of research, the economics of entrepreneurship, and explore how institutions influence entrepreneurial behavior. This book provides comprehensive and contemporary insights into the interaction between economic behavior of firms and households, economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, and how it generates an environment with greater opportunities for growth and development for individuals, households, and pr…
The political economy of the Essential Air Service program
Was Adam Smith Right About Religious Competition
Adam Smith famously argued that increased competition in religion would result in more religious tolerance and that the benefits of competition in the marketplace would also be seen in religious instruction when many religious sects are tolerated. We use a cross-section of a maximum of 167 countries to explore whether increased religious competition results in less governmental regulation of religion and less governmental favoritism of religion. …
Explaining the worldwide decline in the length of mandatory military service, 1970–2010
Does school district and municipality border congruence matter
Research on zoning typically assumes that city planners aim to maximise housing prices with their land use decisions, either explicitly for public choice reasons or implicitly through the approval of land uses that create local net benefits. Noncongruence of school district and municipality borders severs the link between costs and benefits in the eyes of the median voter, however, which could result in excessive residential development and fisca…
Rent-seeking in the classroom and textbooks
Homer Economicus
Homer Economicus brings together sixteen essays that use The Simpsons as the basis for a vibrant and accessible discussion of important concepts in economic theory, showing how these are at work in life in Springfield and beyond.
Why go home? Pearl Jam's ‘Home Shows’ & hotel demand
Daily hotel data is used to analyze the economic impact of Pearl Jam's Home Shows. • The concerts generated 230,000 hotel nights. • Average daily room rates increased up to $144 on concert days. • Hotel tax revenue from tourists was between $6.69 and $9.15 million. • Represents an upper bound of impact of tourism on hotel demand
Laissez-Faire Economic Policy in a World Where Gender Income Gaps Exist
Academia in Anarchy
The economic impact of city–county consolidations
Essays on Government Growth
Essays on Government Growth
Standard of Living
Presidential inauguration tourism and hotel occupancy
This article examines the impact of the inaugurations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump on hotel occupancy in the Washington DC metro area. Using daily hotel data from 2010 to 2020 and controlling for multiple other major events along with day, week, and year fixed effects, we find substantial effects of presidential inaugurations on hotel occupancy. Daily occupancy rates around the inaugurations are four to six times higher than the next largest …
The effect of exports on labour share
We distinguish the effects of export on labour share into a stand‐alone direct effect and indirect effects, which alter the marginal impact of three key determinants of labour share found in the literature. While the direct effect of export has been extensively studied, the potential indirect effects remain unexplored. We investigate both effects of exports using micro‐level Chinese firm‐level data from 1998 to 2007. We employ a fixed‐effect vary…
Institutional implant and economic stagnation
Measuring a contract's breadth
We use a computational linguistic algorithm to measure the topics covered in teacher contracts. Topic modeling metrics are used to assess a contract's expansiveness. Our topic, diversity measurement, is then related to the prevalence of support staff. If more specialized services are provided, then contracts should be broader as they cover more employment relationships. We confirm a strong, statistically significant relationship and, thus, have a…
The impact of new prison construction on the likelihood of incarceration
Prison overcrowding is a major public policy issue with roughly 2.2 million individuals currently incarcerated in the United States. In the absence of reductions in the prison population, the only way to address overcrowding are the expansion of current facilities or the construction of new prisons. Previous research has demonstrated that factors unrelated to the law can affect the decisions made by prosecutors and judges. We investigate the effe…
The Collective Action Problems of Historic Designation
Historic districts play an essential role in preserving cultural heritage and tend to improve property values. However, the complexity of the designation process can contribute to collective action problems among stakeholders. Analyzing the text data from the top 100 populated U.S. cities' municipal codes, we develop a measure of the complexity of designation processes and further uncover the possible driving factors behind the collective action …
The Economics of External Information and Risky Behavior
Understanding risk taking is an important part of the economic analysis of human behavior. When engaging in risky behaviors, individuals rely on heuristics and external information. It is an open question as to whether external information about fluctuating risk reduces bad outcomes for risk takers. We examine this question using data from avalanche incidents in wintertime backcountry recreation. The number of people traveling in avalanche terrai…
Economics (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Public finance (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (6 works) · Business (5 works)